The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting rapidly, forecasting a global sea level rise in the future, according to a new study that     1     (lead)by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) and was published Tuesday in Nature.     2     study combined 26 independent satellite data to track global warming’s effect on Greenland, one of the     3     (large) ice sheets on Earth, and the ice sheet melt’s effect on     4     (rise) sea level, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The findings forecast a global sea rise of approximately 3 to 5     5     (inch) by 2100.

Changes to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal     6     (important) , as they affect global sea level     7     (direct). As glaciers and ice sheets melt, they add more water to the ocean. Increasing rates of global warming have accelerated (加速) Greenland’s ice mass loss from 25 billion tons per year in the 1990s     8    a current average of 234 billion tons per year,     9    means that Greenland’s ice is melting on average seven times faster today than it was at the beginning of the study period. The Greenland Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise sea level by 24 feet. The paper is the result of an international cooperation between 89 polar scientists from 50 scientific institutions     10     (support) by NASA and ESA.

Of all the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10%     1    (recycle). The vast majority ends up     2     ( dump) , most of it in landfill. Some is left to litter the     3    ( nature) environment,     4    it can get into rivers and wash out into the sea. The plastic-waste problem will     5    ( bad) before it gets better: some 380m tonnes of the stuff     6    (be) likely to be made this year. That is more than three times as much as the 120m tonnes of bitumen (沥青)produced     7    ( annual) , most of which goes into building the world's roads. There is a     8    ( connect). Just as plastic comes     9     petro-chemicals (石化) ,bitumen is produced as     10     by-product of refining oil.

Since Japan began releasing nuclear-contaminated (核污染)waste water into the Pacific Ocean despite strong opposition and     1    (criticize)from the international community, Chinese netizens have expressed their anger and concern, with a large number of them    2    (say)that they would no longer go to Japanese restaurants.

According to the spokesperson. the actions of the Japanese government are     3    (contradict)to international conventions (公约)and experts say that the influence of Japan's release of waste water on the safety of people throughout the world is unpredictable. As a consequence, many domestic Japanese restaurants say that they will adjust their product lines, and that seafood     4    (select)from domestic sources or imported from other coastal countries. Some even say that they will seek     5    (develop)other new cuisines.

“The Chinese government will take necessary measures to     6    (firm)protect the marine environment if Japan is determined to go on with its discharge (排放)plan,” said a majority of Chinese, among     7    are those living and studying in Japan now. In a poll    8     (conduet)on Sina Weibo, more than 200. 000 netizens urge Japan to cancel its wrong decision and address the waste water in    9    responsible manner. “We don't want August 24. 2023 to be a disaster day for marine environment and we hope that the issue will be given priority to and dealt with as soon as possible. If Japan does not change course, it must bear the historic responsibility     10    this decision.”

E-TRASH

Nowadays, every household produces electronic trash (or e-trash)—an old TV or computer, a printer, or an out-of-date cell phone. But when we throw these everyday items away, not many of us know    1    they go. The journalist and photographer, Peter Essick, decided to follow this e-trash    2    several countries around the world.

In particular, Essick found that a lot of e-trash goes to Ghana. There, he saw    3    (mountain) of old computers in the local markets. The sellers resell some of them,    4     not many work. Instead, they recycle the broken computers by melting the parts inside. These parts contain a little metal such as copper or even gold. However, this recycling process is    5    (danger) for the workers because    6    produces a lot of toxic chemicals.

As a result of his journey, Peter Essick thinks it’s important to stop     7    (export) e-trash. It’s bad for the environment and it’s bad for    8    (people) health. Instead, he believes manufacturers need    9     (produce) more eco-friendly electronics, in other words, electronic products that you can recycle cheaply, safely, and in the country where they    10    (make).