考研英语阅读理解A(传统题型)分类精讲社会伦理类分类模拟(一).docVIP

考研英语阅读理解A节(传统题型)分类精讲社会伦理类分类模拟(一) Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension    The stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is virtually empty. There are no islands, no shipping lanes, no human presence for thousands of miles—just sea, sky and rubbish. The prevailing currents cause flotsam from around the world to accumulate in a vast becalmed patch of ocean. In places, there are a million pieces of plastic per square kilometre. That can mean as much as 112 times more plastic than plankton, the first link in the marine food chain. All this adds up to perhaps 100m tonnes of floating garbage,