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Sneakers (运动鞋) Made from Old Chewing Gum

Dutch fashion and shoe label Explicit Wear is hoping to solve one of life’s sticky situations—the annoyance of stepping in waste chewing gum on the pavement—while helping to keep Amsterdam’s city streets clean. The brand has partnered with local marketing organization Iamsterdam and sustainability firm Gumdrop     1    (create) a   limited edition sneaker for adults made from recycled gum collected from   the city’s pavements.

Chewing gum causes an incredibly serious ecological problem,    2    it is made from plastics that do not biodegrade ( 生物降解). It’s also the second     3    (common) form of roadside litter, after cigarette ends. An incredible 3.3 million pounds of gum are incorrectly thrown away on the sidewalks each year,    4    (cost) the city millions of dollars to clean up. Gumdrop plans to collect waste gum from the streets of Amsterdam, clean them, and turn them into Gum-Tec, the material that forms the base of the shoe.

The waste gum will be put to good use to make stylish kicks,    5    will also raise awareness for the anti-littering cause.    6    (price) at around $332, the shoes will come into the market sometime next month.

Available for preorder now, the new Gumshoe sneakers—offered in both a bubblegum pink and a black/red colorway—     7     (feature) long-lasting rubber outsoles (鞋子外底)   shaped   from   recyclable   compounds produced by Gumdrop, 20 percent of which are made from gum.

Nearly 2.2 pounds of gum     8    (use) in every four pairs of shoes. A map of Amsterdam is made into the bottom of the soles to remind people of the littering problem. Even better, the sneakers actually still smell like bubblegum,    9    the annoying stickiness. Just as good as any sneaker with a rubber sole, the Gumshoes help   get chewing gum off our streets and keep the dangerously non-biodegradable substance out of our eco-system.

To help spread their sustainability message,    10    Gumshoe’s creators are hoping to do is to expand their project to other major cities around the world.

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Every year, over 8 million tons of plastics end up in our ocean, according to the UN Environment Programme. If left alone, sea animals     1     (trap) in them and sometimes drowned. Even     2    （bad）, they will die if the plastics are eaten. To prevent this depressing     3    (real), Boyan Slat, a 25-year-old engineer from the Netherlands, created The Ocean Cleanup,     4     environmental non-government organization, in 2013 and     5    (build) the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system.

The device, called System 001/B, uses a 600-metre-long “C” shaped tube to gather all the     6    (float) rubbish. A sea anchor is attached to either end,     7     slows down the system and allows the faster-moving rubbish, carried by the waves,     8    (flow) into its mouth. The device can also collect waste below the surface using a 3-meter deep skirt (挡板) attached to the end. After being gathered, the trash will be dragged back to shore     9     boat and recycled.

The Ocean Cleanup expects to clear 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years. It remains to be seen if this dream will become true, but     10    (sure) humanity must work together to reduce our plastic use and repair the damage our waste has caused.

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Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, globally known for developing the first hybrid rice strain in 1973 that served as a solution     1     worldwide hunger, passed away on Saturday at the age of 91.

The scientist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice,     2    has reached its third generation, feeding     3    (approximate) one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total land. In China, the annual planting area of hybrid rice has topped 16 million hectares, or 57 percent of     4    total planting area of rice. Its growth area overseas has reached 8 million hectares. His more recent achievements included developing     5    (variety) of seawater rice, or saline-alkali tolerant rice. His team planned to use the rice     6    (transform) 6.7 million hectares of saline-alkali land in China over the next eight to 10 years.

Yuan once said he had two dreams—to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global     7    (short) of food.

Yuan's lifelong devotion to reducing hunger is     8    has made him a national hero and household name in China is. In 1999, an asteroid (小行星)    9    (discover) by the National Astro-nomical Observatories was named after Yuan. In 2019, he     10    (award) the Medal of the Republic, China's highest state honor.