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Cloze Test A It was my son’s 10th birthday. He was so excited because the 1 he desired finally arrived. When he looked at the 2 box, he guessed that it contained a basketball or something like the remote control aircraft that he had long been 3 . But after he joyfully opened it and dug through three sheets of bubble wrap (气泡垫) and millions of pieces of Styrofoam (泡沫塑料), he 4 a cardboard and colorful plastic paper package of pencils. His heart sunk. He was very 5 . So was I. It was not because of the pencils but the 6 ! We need to do something about too much packaging. First of all we create too much 7 with the unused packaging. The cardboard boxes used for shipping 8 1/3 of the U.S. solid waste. I do 9 that some breakable products need to be 10 with extra packaging, but pencils aren’t that breakable. That 11 packaging brings me to my next topic — cutting down on packaging. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, 12 we cut down the use of packaging from 100 tons to 90 tons, we can | 
