OPEN CLOZE TEST
Complete each gap with one word.
Plastic is the (1) ________ common type of waste floating in the world’s oceans. Waves and sunlight break it (2) ________ into smaller particles called microplastics – fragments less than 5 millimeters across, almost the size of a sesame seed.
To understand the impact of microplastic pollution (3) ________ the ocean, scientists need to know how much is there and (4) ________ it is gathering. Most data on microplastic concentrations comes from commercial and research ships that tow plankton nets – long, cone-shaped nets with very fine mesh designed (5) ________ collecting marine microorganisms.
But net trawling can collect samples from only small areas and may (6) ________ underestimating true plastic concentrations. Except in the North Atlantic and North Pacific areas – large zones where ocean currents rotate, collecting floating debris – scientists (7) ________ done very little sampling for microplastics. And there is little information (8) ________ how these particles’ concentrations change over time.
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Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs do not start and end in one session. Far from that. Today we are looking at back, bear, blow, break, bring, burn. Yes, well done, mostly verbs starting with “B”.
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exercise 2 (assorted phrasal verbs)