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There are challenges of recycling(再利用) clothes. But a company in France is trying to make it easier. The company is called CETIA. It invented two machines that use AI to help recycle clothes and shoes. With AI technology, one machine can find and cut off zippers and buttons (拉链和纽扣) from clothes, while the other machine can pull off soles (鞋底) from shoes easily.
This sounds simple, but nobody has ever done it before. “Nobody recycled soles before because it was hard to sort them from shoes,” said the leader of CETIA. People had to put shoes on an oven to melt (熔化) the glue and pull off the soles by hand. But CETIA’s machine can do it very easily.
Some clothes can be recycled into materials(材料) for houses or roads. But most clothes don’t become clothes again. That’s because clothes need materials that must be sorted(分类) carefully by hand. That usually takes a long time and is expensive. But CETIA’s machine can sort faster and better than people. It can even sort clothes by colour and material, making it easier to recycle them into clothes again.
Recycling clothes and shoes is important because it can reduce waste and can even create new jobs. CETIA is doing amazing work by developing those recycling machines. They’re showing us that with smart thinking, we can find ways to solve big problems.
根据短文内容，选择正确的答案。
(C)56. What is CETIA?
A. A clothes store. B. A cleaning business. C. A technology company.
(A)57. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Pulling off soles from shoes. B. Sorting clothes by colour and material. C. Cutting off zippers and buttons from clothes.
(A)58. What’s the writer’s attitude(态度) towards the machines mentioned in the text?
A. He finds them fascinating. B. He thinks they’re helpless. C. He worries about their future.
(B)59. Why don’t most clothes become clothes again?
A. Because machines can’t sort clothes by colour and material. B. Because it’s difficult and expensive. C. Because the old cloth isn’t fit for clothes.
(A)60. What’s the best title for the text?
A. A Company’s Inventions B. The Importance of Recycling C. How to Protect the Environment

答案： 56. C 57. A 58. A 59. B 60. A