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An environmental activist Josh Berry was on a sailing trip from California to Hawaii in 2006 when, on the fourteenth day, he encountered the sea of plastic that has come to be known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". |
(A) "I'm on a tiny boat with two friends and we're sailing from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands and we haven't seen another sign of human life for over a week.
(B) There is nothing but ocean and sky. Then we start seeing it: tiny, colorful, subtle, coin-sized chunks of plastic floating on the ocean surface all around the boat.
(C) The following is his description of the trip, as delivered in an address at the U.N. World Oceans Day conference in 2009.
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2. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
For days on end, the plastic does not stop. We're sailing through a quiet sea of plastic to Hawaii". |
(A) This is where the problems begin. Unlike most other trash, plastic is not biodegradable. Sunlight does eventually "photodegrade" the bonds in plastic polymers, reducing it to smaller and smaller pieces, but that just makes matters worse.
(B) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is like a galaxy of garbage, populated by billions of smaller trash islands that may be hidden underwater or spread out over many kilometers.
(C) While we do not know exactly how big the garbage patch is, we do know that most of it is made of plastic.
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3. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
The plastic never goes away; it just becomes microscopic, at which point it can be eaten by tiny marine organisms and enter the food chain. |
(A) About 80 percent of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land, much of which is plastic bags, bottles and various other consumer products. Free-floating fishing nets make up another 10 percent of marine litter.
(B) The rest comes largely from recreational boaters and large cargo ships, which drop about 10,000 steel shipping containers into the sea each year, full of things like hockey gloves, computer monitors, resin pellets and plastic toys.
(C) The earth has five or six major oceanic gyres where the ocean circulates slowly because of little wind and extreme high pressure systems. One of the largest is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, filling most of the space between Japan and California.
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4. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
The upper part of this gyre, a few hundred kilometers north of Hawaii, is where warm water from the South Pacific meets cooler water from the north. |
(A) Plastic can be washed from land to sea via sewers, streams and rivers. It may take several years for the debris to reach the coast. On the other hand, fishing nets and shipping containers often fall right into the sea along with the rest of the trash.
(B) One of the most famous debris spills came in 1992, when 28,000 rubber ducks fell in the Pacific Ocean. Carried by the world's currents, rubber ducks continue to turn up on beaches around the world to this day.
(C) Known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, it is also serves as a "trash superhighway", because it is where a lot of trash collects.
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5. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
Fishing nets entangle seals, sea turtles and other animals in a phenomenon known as "ghost fishing", often drowning them. Many abandoned plastic nets continue fishing on their own for months, or even years. |
(A) Albatross parents leave their chicks on Pacific islands while they scour the ocean surface for food, namely protein-rich fish eggs.
(B) Another common piece of marine debris is plastic resin pellets. They are particularly life threatening to sea birds such as the short-tailed albatross.
(C) One of the most controversial types is bottom set gill nets, buoyed by floats and anchored to the sea floor, sometimes stretching for several kilometers.
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6. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
These are small dots bobbing just below the surface, and look unfortunately similar to resin pellets. |
(A) The albatross chicks are fed these indigestible plastic pieces, resulting in their death by either starvation or suffocation
(B) Plastic often contains colorants and chemicals that studies have linked to various environmental and health problems.
(C) As sunlight breaks down floating debris, the surface water thickens with suspended plastic bits with "inherent toxicity".
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7. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?
Scientists are spending time in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, studying its contents in hopes of eventually recycling them or turning them into fuel. |
(A)Opportunities for recycling have to increase, but some people buy three bottles of water a day. As a society, we have to get better at reusing what we buy.
(B)Ultimately, more plastic recycling and wider use of biodegradable materials are the best hope for controlling its expansion.
(C)As one specialist points out, "We need to turn off the tap at the source. We need to educate people on the proper disposal of things, such as plastics, that do not break down.
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