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高考英语上海阅读理解新题型复习作者：佚名 资料来源：网络 点击数：675 高考英语上海阅读理解新题型复习- 文章来源 莲山 课件 w ww.5 Y K J.CO M SectionＤ Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read. The world’s largest garbage dump doesn’t sit on some barren field outside an urban center. It resides thousands of miles from any land — in the Pacific Ocean. 　　 The dump, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, stretches for hundreds of miles across the North Pacific Ocean. Roughly the size of Texas, the patch is sometimes referred to as the 揺ighth continent.?It has quickly come into the spotlight this year, thanks to growing media coverage and teams of scientists who took a voyage in August to study the patch. 　　 The patch contains approximately 3.5 million tons of garbage. Shoes, toys, bags, wrappers, toothbrushes, and bottles too numerous to count are only part of what can be found in this dump floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco. But how did so much garbage get there? The garbage patch formed and continues to exist because of ocean currents. The patch moves with the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a high pressure zone of air which forces ocean surface currents to move in a slowly clockwise pattern. This creates a whirlpool which sucks garbage from other parts of the ocean into the gyre. The patch is a typical example for a worldwide problem: plastic that begins in human hands yet ends up in the ocean. Organic materials and garbage from other sources will eventually break down, but plastics do not, although they do break into smaller and smaller pieces. 　　 The environmental risks posed by the patch are serious. The area supports minimal sea life, because the garbage patch restricts the limited area of water which sea plants can live in. Other marine life including birds, mammals, fish, and jellyfish also suffers because they mistake the garbage for food. A great deal of marine life is then