1 . My 5-year-old daughter Kai walked around a bus stop, picking up candy wrappers and plastic bottles and throwing them in the waste bin. We were a visiting family here, but she was cleaning the sidewalk, which didn’t shock me, nor was I _________ when strangers looked at us.
Our cleanup project began when we drove past an empty field one day and Kai _________ the field was covered by _________ balloons. We had read about how animals could _________ balloons for food. “Stop,” Kai said, and I _________. Surprisingly, we found the field was full of much trash _________ the balloons. “Can we come back and clean it?” Kai asked. Then each Friday, we returned to have a(n) _________ cleaning.
However, it seems we can never _________ the trash completely. I feel something close to _________! Why are we making kids clean up our __________? It has everything to do with the planet we adults are leaving for kids. Plastic pollution is globally distributed and microplastics have even been discovered in human blood. It is not a __________ story that we have created trash but our next generation cleans up them.
Now Kai hopes to become a marine biologist to protect sharks one day. She still has many years to __________, if adults get serious about solving plastic pollution. We shouldn’t leave our next generation a __________ planet and expect them to save it.
The last time our family was at the beach, we still picked up plastic bottles. Most __________, though, we saw an octopus (章鱼) playing around our feet, a __________ of a harmonious habitat worth protecting.
1. A.embarrassed | B.discouraged | C.concerned | D.frightened |
2. A.apologized | B.confirmed | C.spotted | D.explained |
3. A.loose | B.magic | C.processed | D.abandoned |
4. A.trade | B.mistake | C.replace | D.change |
5. A.pulled over | B.blew up | C.turned down | D.gave in |
6. A.due to | B.ahead of | C.other than | D.instead of |
7. A.official | B.serious | C.optional | D.regular |
8. A.deliver | B.remove | C.track | D.produce |
9. A.stress | B.comfort | C.anger | D.pride |
10. A.mess | B.platform | C.court | D.house |
11. A.scary | B.pleasant | C.historic | D.real |
12. A.decide | B.struggle | C.survive | D.contribute |
13. A.safe | B.giant | C.distant | D.sick |
14. A.personally | B.memorably | C.technically | D.universally |
15. A.promise | B.threat | C.reminder | D.favor |