2020年高考英语外刊时事命题阅读理解：塑料猎寻者 The Plastic Hunter

The Plastic Hunter 塑料猎寻者 Boyan Slat is 26. If you saw him walking down the street in Delft, Netherlands — a skinny guy with a long mop of dark hair, jeans, his shirt hanging loose — you might think he was just a student at a local technical university. And so he was, seven years ago, right before he dropped out of college. Slat’s life began to change after a holiday trip to Greece with his family when he was 16. Before taking a diving course, he had expected to see beautiful sea animals. However, what he actually saw in the ocean was an awful lot of plastic waste. From that moment on, Slat dived into a project to find a solution to this alarming problem. Struck by the idea for a floating barrier that could collect plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he founded his company, The Ocean Cleanup, at the age of 18. Although the idea was named one of the best inventions of 2015 by TIME magazine, he received negative feedback from the specialists in environmental issues. Slat was not