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专题06 完形填空
(2020届安徽淮北市高三第一次模拟考试)
Afroz Shall, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn't had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn't spent this time preparing for 21 .
His mission? Saving the world's oceans from 22 pollution.
It's a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was 23 to see how much it had 24 . The sand was no longer 25 because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick - most of it plastic waste.
“The whole beach was like a 26 of plastic,” he said, “It hurt me. The 27 mess.” Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic 28 in the world’s oceans each year. It's predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a 29 . And the sea-species have no choice at all,” Shah said, “We are 30 their habitats.”
In October 2015, shall began 31 up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word 32 and with help from social media, more volunteers got 33 .
For Shah, the work has always been a 34 journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was 35 as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this 36 .
He's now spent 209 weekends on this mission, 37 more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was 38 clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.
“This world talks too much. I think we must talk 39 and do action more,” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019. “We are a smart species. Well adapt. We'll learn. And with these you