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A tiny island is the trashiest place on Earth
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語篇導讀:太平洋中的小島成為地球上垃圾密度最大的地方。這一現象引起了科學家的注意。
When researchers traveled to a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were shocked to find about 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.
Almost all of the trash they found on Henderson Island was made of plastic. There were toy soldiers, toothbrushes and hundreds of hard hats of every shape, size and color.
In a report published recently, the researchers say the density (密度) of trash was the highest recorded anywhere in the world.
“All the plastic there is truly alarming,” said lead researcher Jennifer Lavers. “It’s both beautiful and scary.”
She and six others stayed on the island for more than three months in 2015. They found that the trash weighed about 17.6 tons and that more than two-thirds of it was buried on the beaches.
Lavers said she noticed green toy soldiers that looked the same as those her brother played with as a child in the early 1980s. She said the most common things they found were cigarette lighters and toothbrushes.
By clearing a part of a beach of trash and then watching new pieces accumulate (聚集), Lavers said more than 13,000 pieces of trash are washed up every day on the island, which is about six miles long and three miles wide.
Lavers said she is so upset by the amount of plastic in the oceans that she has taken to using a bamboo iPhone case and toothbrush.
“We need to rethink our relationship with plastic,” she said. “It’s something that’s designed to last forever, but is often only used for a short time and then thrown away.”
From: www.washingtonpost.com
---選自《英語週報》2017-2018學年上《高一人教課標綜合》第9期
【思考】 我們應如何做來儘可能地減少自己身邊的塑料垃圾？
語音要點：
後語：堅持是一種信仰，專注是一種態度！每一次您的轉發，就是對我們的認同和鼓勵！親們，喜歡就積極轉發吧，您的每一次轉發，都是我們持續的原創動力。原創的路上感恩有您一路同行！！！
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