We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away pollut

We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to depose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.
The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has-discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair, a ＄10,000 prize, a ＄20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.
Burd’s strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms (微生物). If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.
With this goal in mind, he grounded plastic bags into a powder and concocted(调制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growth. Then he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 months. Finally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control. Sure enough, the plastic exposed to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.
The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.
“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of me. One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags. The answer: not much. So I decided to do something myself.” Said Daniel Burd.
【小题1】Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair because     .A．he found a new kind of microorganismB．he contributed much to environmental protectionC．he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter timeD．he could encourage microbe growth in an easier way【小题2】 Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to     .A．make the live bacteria work betterB．test how effective his method wasC．know which bacteria worked fasterD．control the temperature in the process【小题3】
Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because     .A．plastics can get hot easilyB．microbes can produce heat themselvesC．much carbon dioxide is producedD．the temperature can be controlled【小题4】 Daniel Burd got his idea from     .A．his school textbookB．the failure of researchersC．his everyday workD．the practice of other peopleC【小题1】B【小题1】B【小题1】C