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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 the estimates available, that’s how much plastic waste ______ in our oceans every year.

“We’re being ______ by our waste,” said Jenna Jambeck, 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 helpful to us, 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 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 jellyfish, have been found with plastic in their bellies (肚子). 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.seaweedB.garbageC.seafoodD.money
2.
A.comes fromB.takes outC.ends upD.puts away
3.
A.fascinatedB.controlledC.surroundedD.destroyed
4.
A.medicalB.electricalC.agriculturalD.environmental
5.
A.figureB.wasteC.priceD.cost
6.
A.quicklyB.slowlyC.hurriedlyD.unexpectedly
7.
A.timeB.educationC.technologyD.life
8.
A.WhileB.SoC.ButD.And
9.
A.changingB.growingC.movingD.touching
10.
A.scientificB.coastalC.generalD.tiny
11.
A.make upB.turn upC.pick upD.bring up
12.
A.hideB.eatC.seeD.use
13.
A.promoteB.rescueC.increaseD.threaten
14.
A.plantsB.animalsC.protectionD.species
15.
A.mistakeB.lookC.regardD.recognize
16.
A.poisonousB.deadlyC.deadD.lively
17.
A.mouthB.stomachC.headD.tail
18.
A.wasteB.rubbishC.nothingD.plastics
19.
A.alwaysB.justC.reallyD.constantly
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A.criticalB.toughC.demandingD.natural
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