Garbage(垃圾) Island

You can’t see it from the air. It’s almost impossible to see from a ship. But somewhere in the North Pacific is a huge island of garbage, just below the water surface.

What is the island made of?

The garbage island is not an island, but a collection of millions of plastic and other objects(物体). The water movements of the Pacific Ocean bring the objects together and cause them to go around in a big circle.

Charles Moore found it in 1997 and named it “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”.

Where does all the plastic come from?

Much of the garbage comes from everyday objects, such as shopping bags and water bottles. Some of these objects finally reach the ocean. Garbage from the western coast of North America takes about six years to reach it. Objects from East Asia take about a year. Other garbage comes from ships passing through the area.

Is the Garbage Patch dangerous?

The larger pieces of garbage are a problem for wildlife. For example, sea turtles(海龟) and seabirds often think the plastic is their food. They eat the plastic and die.

In addition, the plastic stops sunlight from reaching deeper water. Without sunlight, very small sea animals die. Then, there is less food for larger fish to eat.

What can we do to help stop it?

Cleaning up the island isn’t easy. But we can make people realize the problem. One environmentalist(环保主义者), David de Rothschild, is sailing around the world on a boat made of plastic bottles to teach people about the problem of garbage in the sea.

Another idea is that we can recycle the plastic garbage. Environmental engineer Cesar Harada is building a robot that collects pieces of plastic. Harada hopes to use his robot in the Pacific. Harada also has a website for reporting environmental problems. He says, “I hope everybody can become an environmental activist.”

1.What is the garbage made of?

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2.How long does it take objects from East Asia to reach the island?

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3.Is the garbage island dangerous?

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4.Why is David de Rothschild sailing on a bottle boat?

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5.According to the writer, what can we do to help stop garbage island?

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1.It is made of millions of plastic and other objects. 2.About a year. 3.Yes, (it is) 4.Because he wants to teach people about the problem of garbage in the sea. 5.We can make people reali...

One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: “I am blind. Please help me.”

A creative publicist(广告员) named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without asking for permission, he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost full of bills and coins. The blind man recognised(识别) his footsteps and asked if it was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it.

The publicist said, “I just wrote the message a little differently.” He smiled and went on his way.

The new sign read: “Spring has come, but I can’t see anything.”

1.What’s the blind man’s name?

A. Tom. B. John. C. Tony. D. Sorry, I don’t know.

2.Who wrote a new message?

A. The blind man. B. The teacher. C. The publicist. D. The farmer.

3.How did the blind man recognise the publicist?

A. By his sign. B. By his footsteps. C. By his voice. D. By his coins.

4.When did the story happen?

A. In spring. B. In summer. C. In autumn. D. In winter.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Publicists are always friendly and helpful.

B. We can get more money by chang-ing a sign.

C. The blind man was very stupid, so he had little money.

D. The power(力量) of language is great.

1.B 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.D 【解析】文章介绍了一个广告员用一句话帮助了一个盲人的故事。 1.根据there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a hat by his feet故选B 2.根据The publicist said, “I just wrote the me...

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