Englisch · 2019 · B4 Vocabulary - Grammar

The Pacific - an Ocean in Danger

The Pacific Ocean makes up 30 per cent of the earth's surface. It is nearly double the size of the Atlantic Ocean, and it is home to the ____ places on earth. Even though the name "Pacific" suggests calm, this ocean faces serious danger, as a massive patch of plastic waste is ____ it. Plastic bottles have long been a part of our ____.

In 1978, Coca-Cola ____ the 2-liter PET plastic bottle, and by 2016, more than 480 billion plastic bottles ____ around the world.

This adds to the ____ of our planet. Still, plastic does offer several benefits: it weighs much less ____ glass, is harder to break, and shipping and ____ costs are far lower. What's more, recycled plastic is frequently made into ____ products, like fleece jackets or carpets.

Yet people who ____ toss plastic waste aside may end up eating that very plastic themselves someday. Fish can ingest it, and as everyone ____, humans sit at the top of the food chain.

The UN warns that, if current patterns hold, by 2050 the oceans ____ more plastic than fish by weight.

Adapted from: "School Times International" (March 2017); "Read on" (11/2017), Eilers & Schünemann Verlag KG, Bremen

• a) deep

• b) to threaten

• c) to live

• d) introduction

• e) to sell

• f) to pollute

• g) than

• h) to produce

• i) variety

• j) careless

• k) to know

• l) to contain