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2. Match the questions (a—f) to the passages (1—4). There are two extra questions you don't need to use. 1) Imagine a plastic bottle filled with a soft drink, or water, or another cool, tasty drink. After you finish your drink, you throw the bottle out. Along with other bottles, it goes to the sea or ocean. Sunlight and salty water break a plastic bottle into lots of small pieces. Currents and waves carry these pieces to various places. Then, other plastic pieces get to the ocean. Do they change? No, they contaminate seas and oceans, badly influence flora and fauna, and cannot disappear. F) How does plastic waste appear? 2) Tons of plastic waste have already contaminated the oceans. They are from countries all around the world. People are the source of waste. As a result of sun and water influence, plastic undergoes a process called photodegradation. That means plastic pieces become smaller and smaller, and they can't be seen in water. These small plastic particles can be observed only through a microscope. B) Where does plastic waste come from? 3) Since the plastic parts are so small, the amount of garbage is difficult to measure. So many plastic pieces that are both large and small. They are everywhere in the water. They are in sand and algae. They cannot be gathered by hand. But, according to scientists, the garbage area is nearly 15 million square kilometres. E) What happens to waste when it gets into the ocean? 4) Clearing the ocean seems impossible. People have been trying to solve this problem for many years. A 19-year-old boy has invented a cleaning machine called Array. It can be used in water to collect plastic without hurting animals in the ocean. The device is being tested now. D) What solution for plastic waste problem was found?