02：【名校好题】完形填空-2023年上海八年级英语名校试题专题集训（含答案解析）

02：【名校好题】完形填空-2023年上海八年级英语名校试题专题集训（含答案解析） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、完形填空 （2023春·上海浦东新·八年级上海市进才中学北校校考阶段练习）Imagine a mass of floating waste is two times the size of the state of Texas. Texas has a land area of more than 678,000 square kilometers. So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big. All together, this mass of waste flowing in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. It ____1____ about 3,500,000 tons. The waste includes bags, bottles and containers — plastic products of all kinds. The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about 1,600 kilometers west of California. The western part is west of the Hawaiian Islands and east of Japan. The area has been ____2____ a kind of oceanic desert, with light winds and slow moving water currents. The water moves so slow that garbage from all over the world ____3____ there. In recent years, there have been growing concerns (担心) about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health. Scientists say thousands of animals get trapped in the floating waste, resulting in death or ____4____ . Even more die from a lack of food or water after swallowing pieces of plastic. The trash can also make animals feel full, lessening their desire to eat or drink. The floating garbage also can have ____5____ effects on people. There is an increased threat of infection (感染) of disease from polluted waste, and from eating fish that swallowed waste. Divers can also get trapped in the plastic. Its existence first gained public attention in 1997. That was when racing boat captain and oceanographer (海洋学家) Charles Moore and his crew sailed into the garbage while returning from a racing event. Five years earlier, ____6____ oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea. Many of those toys are now part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. In August, 2009, a team from the University of Ca