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   Most 20-year-olds are still trying to figure out what they want to do in life. Boyan Slat is not like that. Ever since he was 16-years old, the Dutch teenager has had one mission - to clean up the trillions of pieces of plastic that are polluting our oceans and killing precious marine life. What's amazing is that this young man who started with what sounded like an outlandish dream may actually be able to pull off this gargantuan task!

Slat's first exposure to ocean garbage came during a diving vacation in Greece. The teenager was stunned to see that there was more plastic on the beaches than fishes in the sea. Upon completing high school, he started to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an Aerospace Engineer. However, he could never erase the images of the plastic debris from his mind.

So in 2013, Slat dropped out of college and established The Ocean Cleanup Foundation. Its mission was to create an environmentally friendly large-scale and efficient way to remove the plastic pollution from aquatic ecosystems(水生生态系统), while increasing awareness by simultaneously communicating this process intensively.

Within a year, the determined youngster and his team of 100 volunteer scientists and engineers from all around the world managed to come up with a 530-page feasibility study that laid out the technology and the financial needs for such a concept to be practical.

Called the "Ocean Cleanup Project," it did not entail chasing after every piece of floating plastic. Instead, the plan focused on the five "garbage" patches that have been accumulated by rotating ocean currents or gyres(涡流) in specific areas. According to experts, the five harbor about 5.25 trillion of the 8 trillion pieces of plastic estimated to be floating around the world's oceans today.

Slat's team hypothesized that if we create a stationary(固定的) collection area around each one, the plastic could be picked up in an economical and efficient manner. The plan was convincing enough to raise the team close to $2.2 million USD in a crowdfunding campaign.

56. What has Boyan Slat dreamed of doing since he was 16? (No more than 10 words)

57. Why was Boyan Slat surprised during a diving vacation in Greece? (No more than 10 words)

58. What was Boyan Slat’s purpose of establishing The Ocean Cleanup Foundation?

59. How do you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? (No more than 15 words)

60. What do you think of Boyan Slat’s action? Give your reasons. (No more than 20 words)

【回答】

56. He has dreamed of cleaning up plastic in oceans.

57. Because he saw too much plastic on the beaches.

58. To find an environmentally friendly and efficient way to clean oceans and to raise people awareness.

59. The plan of Slat’s team was thought highly of and got great support.

60. I think he is doing something worthwhile because he’s helping make our world a better place to live.

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