1 . A thirty-year-old environmental puzzle has finally been solved. Since the 1990s, pieces of plastic telephones that look like Garfield—the lazy cartoon cat—have been ______ up on beaches in France. But for three ______, no one knew where the phones were coming from. On March 22, a group of volunteers from a coastal clean-up organization, along with two journalists finally found out the ______ to their puzzle. They discovered a(n) ______ shipping container and ______ of several Garfield phones inside a rocky sea cave. The cave is hard to find, and can only be ______ when the tide (sea) is low.
Shipping containers are used to move things like food, clothing and other items ______ the sea. Cargo ships ______ hundreds of the huge steel containers from the countries where the goods are made or grown, to the countries where they will be ______. However, ______ knows for sure how the shipping container full of Garfield phones ended up in the ______.
People who live in the area say that the ______ first showed up on beaches ______ a big storm in the early 1990s. The container ______ fell off a ship during the storm, but nobody ever reported that it was ______.
The Garfield phones have become a symbol of the problem of ocean ______ Fabien Boileau is the director of Iroise Marine Natural Park, where the cave with the phones is ______. He said the Garfield phones help people to ______ that plastic trash doesn't ______ in the ocean. Some of the colourful plastic pieces still look almost ______, even though they were washed overboard more than 30 years ago.
1. A.built | B.washed | C.given | D.blown |
2. A.decades | B.years | C.centuries | D.months |
3. A.theory | B.evidence | C.belief | D.answer |
4. A.ordinary | B.emptied | C.strange | D.broken |
5. A.pictures | B.films | C.calls | D.parts |
6. A.reached | B.founded | C.protected | D.used |
7. 8. A.provide | B.carry | C.possess | D.include |
9. A.stored | B.exported | C.sold | D.destroyed |
10. A.everybody | B.the group | C.the organization | D.nobody |
11. A.country | B.sea | C.cave | D.ship |
12. A.phones | B.cats | C.bodies | D.wastes |
13. A.before | B.after | C.until | D.despite |
14. A.immediately | B.probably | C.secretly | D.eventually |
15. A.stolen | B.hidden | C.missing | D.sinking |
16. A.voyage | B.exploration | C.protection | D.pollution |
17. A.located | B.watched | C.separated | D.repaired |
18. A.explain | B.observe | C.understand | D.conclude |
19. A.break down | B.die down | C.go down | D.slow down |
20. A.normal | B.new | C.real | D.cool |