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Scientists have created by accident an enzyme (酶) that breaks down plastic drinks bottles. The breakthrough could help solve the
Scientists have created by accident an enzyme (酶) that breaks down plastic drinks bottles. The breakthrough could help solve the
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2023-01-31
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Scientists have created by accident an enzyme (酶) that breaks down plastic drinks bottles. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles.
The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.
An international team then adjusted the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had accidentally made the molecule even better at breaking down the plastic used for drinks bottles. "What actually turned out was we improved the enzyme, which was a bit of a shock," said head researcher Prof. McGeehan, at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Currently, the enzyme takes a few days to start breaking down the plastic, far faster than the centuries it takes in the oceans, but the researchers are optimistic this can be speeded up even further and become a viable large-scale process.
"What we are hoping to do is use this enzyme to turn this plastic back into its original components, so we can literally recycle it back to plastic," said McGeehan. "It means we won’t need to dig up any more oil and, fundamentally, it should reduce the amount of plastic in the environment."
About 1 million plastic bottles are sold each minute around the globe and, with just 14% recycled, many end up in the oceans where they have polluted even the remotest parts, harming marine life and potentially people who eat seafood. "Plastic is incredibly resistant to degradation," said McGeehan. "It is one of these wonder materials that has been made a little bit too well."
Currently those bottles that are recycled can only be turned into opaque fibres for clothing or carpets, while the new enzyme indicates a way to recycle old clear plastic bottles back into new clear plastic bottles.
"You are always up against the fact that oil is cheap, so plastic is cheap," said McGeehan. "It is so easy for manufacturers to generate more of that stuff, rather than even try to recycle, but I believe there is a public interest here: perception is changing so much that companies are starting to look at how they can properly recycle these bottles."
Prof. Adisa Azapagic, at the University of Manchester in the UK, agreed the enzyme could be useful but added: "A full life-cycle assessment would be needed to ensure that the technology does not solve one environmental problem—waste—at the expense of others, including additional greenhouse gas emissions."
What do we learn from the passage about an enzyme scientists have created?
选项
A、It was identified during a lab experiment accident.
B、It may make full recycling of plastic bottles a reality.
C、It was a breakthrough made with persistent efforts.
D、It may initiate a radical reform in plastic industry.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的an enzyme scientists have created及出题顺序定位至第1段。题目询问关于科学家创造的一种酶的情况。第1段提到,科学家无意中创造的酶首次实现了塑料瓶的零废弃全回收(enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles),B项“使得塑料瓶全回收成为现实”符合文意,full recycling of plastic bottles复现了原文关键词。第1段说科学家无意中(by accident)创造这种酶,第2段进一步指出这一研究的契机是在日本的垃圾场发现有种细菌经自然进化获得(naturally evolved)吞食塑料的能力,可见A项“它是在一次实验事故中发现的”、C项“通过坚持不懈努力取得的突破”与原文表述不符,可排除。D项“可能会在塑料行业中引发一场彻底的改革”属于无中生有,a radical reform不同于文中的breakthrough。
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