The idea of turning recycled plastic bottles into clothing is not new. During the last five years, a large number of clothing companies, businesses and environmental organizations have started turning plastics into fabric to deal with plastic pollution. But there’s a problem with this method. Research now shows that microfibers could be the biggest source of plastic in the sea.
Dr. Mark Browne in Santa Barbara, California, has been studying plastic pollution and microfibers for 10 years now. He explains that every time synthetic clothes go into a washing machine, a large number of plastic fibers fall off. Most washing machines can’t collect these microfibers. So every time the water gets out of a washing machine, microfibers are entering the sewers and finally end up in the sea.
In 2011, Browne wrote a paper stating that a single piece of synthetic(合成的) clothing can produce more than 1, 900 fibers per wash. Browne collected samples from seawater and freshwater sites around the world, and used a special way to examine each sample. He discovered that every single water sample contained microfibers.
This is bad news for a number of reasons. Plastic can cause harm to sea life when eaten. Studies have also shown that plastic can absorb other pollutants.
Based on this evidence, it may seem surprising that companies and organizations have chosen to turn plastic waste into clothing as an environmental “solution.” Even though the science has been around for a while, Browne explains that he's had a difficult time getting companies to listen. When he asked well-known clothing companies to support Benign by Design-his research project that seeks to get clothes that have a bad effect on humans and the environment out of the market, Browne didn’t get a satisfying answer. Only one women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, offered Browne funding.
1.What has happened during the past five years?
A.Fabric has become much stronger. B.Plastic pollution has been less serious.
C.Many plastic bottles have been reused. D.Microfibers have been greatly improved.
2.What does Browne think of washing synthetic clothes?
A.It is adding microfibers to the clothes.
B.It is worsening environmental problems.
C.It is making synthetic clothes last longer.
D.It is doing great damage to washing machines.
3.What can be inferred about Browne’s Benign by Design research project?
A.It has achieved great success. B.It hasn’t got anything done.
C.It is known to very few people. D.It is facing some difficulties.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A.It’s important to learn to recycle
B.It’s never easy to solve pollution problems
C.Recycled plastic clothing: solution or pollution?
D.Are human beings moving forward or backward?
I was a newcomer in a class. So was Alice. That's where the similarities ended. I was tall and she was small. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her. I considered her my enemy. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too shocked to answer any other way. No one had invited me over to play. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school. I got very surprised when she led me into an apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister. When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies — which was my next surprise. I would have thought she'd outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in closet, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That's when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and we both had wild imaginations. We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her wardrobe, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her as a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.
Alice had the whole neighborhood charmed. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses, and spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.
Alice, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
1.What made the similarities end?
A.Leaving the author's old school.
B.Being admitted to their new classes.
C.Their differences in appearance and personalities.
D.Their different demands of friendship and fashion.
2.What did the author think of the Barbies?
A.Alice was too mature for them.
B.Alice must have made them by herself.
C.They should have been kept well.
D.They brought her back to her childhood.
3.We can infer from the passage that Alice ________.
A.helped the author see her own strengths
B.was good with the people around her
C.helped to bring out the best in the author
D.inspired the authors love for fashion
4.Which of the following best describes Alice as a friend?
A.Humorous. B.Ambitious.
C.Caring. D.Friendly.
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假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Tom所在的城市新冠肺炎疫情严重，请你给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1.表示慰问
2.给出几点个人防护的建议(尽量减少外出；外出佩戴口罩；保持良好的卫生习惯等)
3.希望建议有用并祝早日战胜疫情
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.开头已给出，不计入总词数；
3.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
参考词汇：新型冠状病毒 novel coronavirus 传染病epidemic
Dear Tom,
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧) .并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一模线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1.格式正确，且每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My spare time is full of interested activities. I read all kinds of books in the reading room whenever I have time. In this way I learn much in the library than in class. Moreover, I took part in many sports activities, of that my favorite is basketball. I often play basketball after the school. Sports and games keep me health and energetic enough to overcome a variety of challenges. Sometime I go in for social practice with my classmates outside school. Thus, I can gain much social experiences. Out-of-class activities are quite necessary for our students. Through these activities we can lean that cannot be learned in class.
A little girl, named Starry, was playing outside her grandmother's apartment building. Her mom, Marina, kept an eye on the _______ from a window. At about 4 pm, Starry walked around the corner of the building to get her bike and _______.
“I took my eyes _______ her for five minutes, and she was gone,” says Marina. “I knew something was _______,” she adds, _______ when she saw that Starry's bike was _______ here and found an old credit card her daughter had been playing with _______ near the bike. Marina called 911.
Policemen came soon, blocking off streets and _______ the neighborhood. Officers handed out a photo of the blond (金发) girl. Many people joined in.
Temar Boggs, 15, was with some friends helping his elderly neighbor when one searcher _______ them and asked if they'd seen the girl. ________ the boys, none of them had seen her. Temar was approached with a photo of Starry. “I ________ that I was going to find her,” he says. He borrowed a bike from a friend and sped away. The boy searched without a plan, ________ keeping a sharp eye out as he rode on.
Then Temar ________ a car driving down a side street and turning back, ________ the driver was unfamiliar with the neighborhood. He followed it. The car pulled an ________ U-turn at the top of a hill—a group of policemen had gathered there.
The car passed the boy as it circled back ________ the hill. Temar made eye contact (接触) with the man behind the wheel, and spied a tiny blond girl in the passenger seat. Temar ________ knew “it was her, for sure.” The boy ________ fast after the car, but the driver kept moving, slowly winding his way through the neighborhood. ________, the driver pulled the car to the street side a few hundred feet ahead of him and pushed open the passenger-side door. Starry ________ out of the car. The kidnapper (绑架者) sped away but was caught by the police the next day.
1.A.building B.girl C.bike D.policeman
2.A.hid B.escaped C.disappeared D.left
3.A.off B.for C.to D.above
4.A.wrong B.difficult C.special D.dangerous
5.A.unfortunately B.formally C.especially D.probably
6.A.yet B.even C.also D.still
7.A.enveloped B.abandoned C.brought D.presented
8.A.disturbing B.entering C.searching D.exploring
9.A.annoyed B.invited C.inspired D.approached
10.A.According to B.As a result of C.In spite of D.Depending on
11.A.learned B.agreed C.felt D.proved
12.A.hurriedly B.carefully C.properly D.simply
13.A.passed B.spotted C.missed D.followed
14.A.so that B.even though C.as if D.in case
15.A.sharp B.major C.awful D.vast
16.A.along B.around C.down D.toward
17.A.certainly B.absolutely C.immediately D.nearly
18.A.circled B.drove C.ran D.rode
19.A.Cautiously B.Finally C.Gradually D.Wildly
20.A.slipped B.ran C.cycled D.walked
