Scattered efforts across the country indicate that new technology, properly applied, might some day turn these millions of tons of refuse into an excellent source of raw materials for new uses. (Passage Two)

【参考答案】

来自全国各地人们的努力显示，新技术如果应用合适的话，也许有一天能够把这些数百万吨的垃圾变成能被重新使用的原材料的来源。