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Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste.T...
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Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste.That’s a total of about 19 billion pounds of_______. And according to one of the best estimates available, that’s how much plastic waste_______in our oceans every year.
"We're being_______by our waste,” said Jenna Jam beck, an/a _______engineer who led the 2015 study that announced this shocking number. According to Jambeck’s research, this_______will double by 2025 unless something is done,_______and at a global scale, to stop the tide of garbage.
Plastic has in many ways been a good help to humanity, used in all walks of _______from medical equipment to parts of airplanes. _______some of the very traits (特性)that have made plastics so popular have also made them a_______ problem in our landfills and oceans. Today, plastics are the No. 1 type of trash found in the sea. Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group that organizes a yearly________cleanup event in more than 150 countries worldwide, said plastic pieces ________around 85 percent of all the garbage collected from beaches waterways and oceans — and that’s just the stuff we can ________.
Ocean Conservancy says plastics are believed to ________at least 600 different wildlife ________. One in three leatherback turtles, which often ________plastic bags for edible(可吃的) jellyfish, have been found with plastic in their bellies. In 2017, a ________ whale beached on Norway’s coast had 30 plastic bags in its________. Ninety percent of seabirds are now eating ________on a regular basis. By 2050, that figure is expected to rise to 100 percent.
And it’s not ________ wildlife that’s threatened by the plastics in our seas. A growing body of evidence suggests humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat.
With this in mind,experts say that all of us have a ________role to play in relieving the issue — in ways both big and small.
1.A.seaweed B.seafood C.garbage D.money
2.A.comes from B.ends up C.takes out D.put away
3.A.trapped B.controlled C.surrounded D.destroyed
4.A.medical B.technical C.agricultural D.environmental
5.A.figure B.waste C.price D.cost
6.A.swiftly B.slowly C.hurriedly D.unexpectedly
7.A.time B.education C.technology D.life
8.A.While B.So C.But D.And
9.A.changing B.growing C.moving D.touching
10.A.scientific B.coastal C.general D.tiny
11.A.picks up B.takes up C.makes up D.brings up
12.A.see B.eat C.hide D.search
13.A.influence B.damage C.increase D.threaten
14.A.plants B.animals C.protection D.species
15.A.mistake B.look C.regard D.recognize
16.A.vivid B.deadly C.dead D.lively
17.A.mouth B.stomach C.head D.tail
18.A.waste B.rubbish C.nothing D.plastics
19.A.just B.always C.really D.constantly
20.A.unique B.critical C.reasonable D.natural
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