問題詳情

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle ’snostril. The turtle 26 in agony, bleeding profusely. For eight painful minutes the YouTube video ticks on; it has logged morethan 20 million 27 , even though it’s so hard to watch. At the end the increasingly desperate biologists finally manage to d islodge afour-inch-long straw from the creature’s nose. Raw scenes like this, 28 bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, have become familiar:The dead albatross, its stomach bursting with refuse. The turtle stuck in a six-pack ring, its shell warped from years of straining againstthe tough plastic. The seal snared in a 29 fishing net. But most of the time, the harm is stealthier. Flesh-footed shearwaters, large,sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their bodymass than 30 marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. Aplastic shard piercing an intestine can kill a bird quickly.
26.
(A) besieges
(B) writhes
(C) jeopardizes
(D) merchandizes

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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