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命题一（原文） Plastic pollution in the Pacific (252 words) Did you have a favorite plastic toy when you were a child? Did it break? Did your parents throw it away? Well, I know where it is. It’s floating in the Pacific Ocean in a place called the North Pacific Gyre. How did it get there? Well, let me explain. Many countries around the Pacific dump their garbage in the ocean. Most of the garbage sinks to the bottom. But plastic floats-just like the plastic duck in your bathtub. However, unlike water in a bathtub, the water in the Pacific Ocean moves. It moves in a clockwise motion and this spinning motion, called a gyre, pulls things toward the middle. So, all the plastic ends up in the same place. One scientist says the area looks just like “plastic soup”. This phenomenon of spinning plastic soup was discovered about ten years ago. Since that time the amount of plastic in this area has increased tenfold. And this plastic will not just go away: it takes 400 years for plastic to degrade! And, even worse, fish and sea birds are eating the plastic. They think it looks like food. The plastic doesn’t poison them but the fish (who are not smart!) think their bellies are full. So, they stop eating and die of starvation. Dolphins and whales will also eat plastic and die. Governments are starting to work together to clean up this area but it will take many years. That’s why we should always try to recycle plastic… even our old toys. 命题二（原文） Real kid cowboy rides to school. (267 words) How do you usually get to school? By bus? On foot? Rody Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little differently – he goes by horse. Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles (6.4 km) to and from school since the beginning of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I am on my way at 6 am,” Burch says. “The roads are mostly empty at this time of morning. It’s a nice way to start the day.” The idea was his dad’s. His family was enjoying their vacation at their farm thi