Question

    Engineers have put a huge garbage collector to gather plastic material in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, the world's largest spread of garbage, twice the size of the state of Texas.

The Ocean Cleanup organization created the collector. The group's founder, Boyan Slat, an inventor born in 1994, was just 16 when he was moved to clean up the oceans when he was on a dive and saw more plastic bags than fish

Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco. Attached to it is a screening skirt that hangs three meters down in the water. The screen is designed to collect the plastic as it moves through the water. Sea animals can safely swim under the barrier

The cleanup system also comes with lights powered by the sun, cameras, and other special devices, so the system can communicate its position at all times. That way a support ship can find it every few months to remove the plastic that has been collected.

Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered , including bottles and fishing equipment and are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be recycled. The free-floating barriers are made to survive extreme weather conditions and damage from continual use. They will stay in the water for twenty years , thus collecting 90% ofthe garbage in the area.

The Ocean Cleanup has received $ 35 million in donations to pay for the project, hoping to put 60 free-floating barriers in the Pacific Ocean by 2020. "It's important to turn off the taps on plastic entering the ocean, but I also think people can do more than one thing at a time to deal with this problem," Slat said.

1.What drove Slat to invent the collector?

A. The interest in invention

B. His failure to dive due to rubbish.

C. The sight oftoo many plastic bags

D. His knowledge ofgarbage in the Pacific Ocean

2.How does the floating barrier work?

A. It reaches into the water to collect the plastic

B. It has large containers to produce power

C. 'It forms barriers to protect sea animals

D. A ship drags it along in the ocean.

3.Which does the underlined word "it" in paragraph 4 refer to?

A. The support ship.

B. The floating barrier

C. The plastic to be recycled.

D. The position of special devices.

4.What is important for protecting the ocean according to Slat?

A. Sending more collectors into the ocean

B. Inventing more ocean cleanup devices

C. Stopping plastic from entering the ocean

D. Banning the use ofplastic bags in boats

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.C

【解析】

本文属于新闻，介绍一个青少年创造了海洋垃圾收集器及相关信息。

1.细节理解题。根据题干的"发明这个垃圾收集器"，答案定位在第二段。该段说" The group's founder, Boyan Slat... when he was on a dive and saw more plastic bags than fish",由此可知，这促使他决定清洁海洋,因此选C。

2.细节理解题。第三段说" Attached to it is a screening skirt that hangs three meters down in the water... through the water"，这种垃圾收集器的下面部分是一个屏障，能够延伸到水下三米的地方，并且在水中移动的同时收集塑料，因此选A。

3.词义猜测题。从画线词所在的语境看,这里的it指前面提到的清洁系统,也就是悬浮屏障，因此选B。

4.推理判断题。最后一段提到Slat说的话”It's important to turn off the taps on plastic entering the ocean, but I also think people can do more than one thing at a time to deal with this problem" ,即他认为重要的是关掉塑料进人海洋的龙头，由此推断他认为关键是不让塑料进入海洋，故选C。