Ocean Garbage listening exercise
In this English listening exercise we hear BBC Earth report about garbages found in the ocean.
A Hawaiian student looks at the plastic items found in stomaches of albatrosses, ingested from the Pacific ocean.
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Listen to this interesting video from BBC Earth, and answer the questions in the following listening exercise. Write your answers in the comments box at the bottom of the page, and we will reply with the answers shortly!
Questions:
1. So I spent about an hour this afternoon walking ______.
2. If you aren't a fisherman you're probably feeling pretty good _____ yourself right now.
3. It's amazing that they can even get these things _____, it can't be very comfortable for them.
4. If I was an albatross I don't think that I would like to _________ this.
5. It hasn't _____ __ on the beach.
6. It came here _____ a bird.
7. I don't think that people actually ______ on a day to day basis what the impact actually is.
8. Throw-away living may be _______, but the consequences are intolerable.
9. It will require all facets of ______ to solve it.
10. The ocean itself eventually will ____ this stuff out, but we have to stop putting it in.
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