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.

2 . Sophie, 13, won the 2019 New Zealand’s “Think kind” competition for student. “I_________ a beach clean-up, because it really_________ me that marine(海洋的) life is hurt by thoughtless decisions of humans.”

Sophie saw_________ on the sea floor while snorkeling(徒手潜泳). “It was the first time I’d seen marine life _________ among plastics.”

It was the trigger of her act. “We weren’t taking enough_________. Everyone needs to do their_________, otherwise we’re going to_________our planet.”

Sophie turned to media to get her_________out and ask for volunteers at the clean-up. To her surprise, more than 200 people turned up. 200 kilograms of rubbish were_________ that day. “It was horrible. We knew rubbish was there but we didn’t realize how__________ until we started collecting.”

Once ecological(生态的)__________had hit Sophie, it hit hard. On her l4th birthday, she decided to celebrate differently.__________ holding a party creating waste, she decided to__________ it. On her “party,” Sophie and her friends__________ to pick up the rubbish that__________ along the river bank near the town.

“If there is one thing everyone could do, it is to ‘__________ after yourself’,” says Sophie. “It’s hard for some families to__________plastic alternatives, but just not buying things wrapped in plastic will help.” She suggests using__________ materials like metal straws. “When there are more__________on the market, it will be__________for individuals to make a change.”