• Complete the paragraph by circling the correct words. With so many factories that make disposable toothbrushes, pens, cans, bottles and wrappings,
garbage (1) a very big problem in our world today. You may think that garbage is
everywhere. Well, (2) right. It is everywhere! A good (and scary) example of this is the
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (3) first discovered by
scientists (4)_ the 1980s. It is an area of floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is about
the same size as Texas. (5). are many kinds of garbage in the Garbage Patch, but plastic
bottles and bags, and other things made of plastic cause (6) problem. 'What's the
problem?' you may (7) First, plastic bottles and bags may take hundreds or maybe even
thousands of years to break down. Second, plastic is made from chemicals. As the plastics
break down over time, chemicals enter the water - and enter the fish (8) live in the water.
(9). chemicals can make the fish sick, and they can also make the people (10) eat
the fish sick. So ... what can we do? There are many things we can do! We can clean
(11) our oceans, we can stop making so many things from plastic, and we can recycle
more. The important thing is to do (12)

1.
(A) is
(B) are
(C) were
5.
(A) They're
(B) Their
(C) There
9.
(A) That
(B) This
(C) These
2.
(A) your
(B) you're
(C) yours
6.
(A) biggest
(B) the biggest
(C) bigger
10.
(A) what
(B) who
(C) where
3.
(A) was
(B) is
(C) were
7.
(A) ask
(B) asked
(C) asks
11.
(A) down
(B) over
(C) up
4.
(A) at
(B) on
(C) in
8.
(A) that
(B) who
(C) where
12.
(A) somewhere
(B) something
(C) someone