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    2014sepa Teenager Designs Platform To Clean Seas

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    A Dutch teenager named Boyan Slat has invented a device to clean plastic waste from oceans. His design uses floating barriers and processing platforms that collect plastic debris while allowing fish and plankton to pass unharmed. The collected plastic can then be recycled. Millions of tons of plastic litter oceans each year and harm aquatic life. Slat's system could dramatically reduce ocean plastic within five years. Environmental companies are interested in producing experimental models of his design later this year.

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    A Dutch teenager named Boyan Slat has invented a device to clean plastic waste from oceans. His design uses floating barriers and processing platforms that collect plastic debris while allowing fish and plankton to pass unharmed. The collected plastic can then be recycled. Millions of tons of plastic litter oceans each year and harm aquatic life. Slat's system could dramatically reduce ocean plastic within five years. Environmental companies are interested in producing experimental models of his design later this year.

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    A Dutch teenager named Boyan Slat has invented a device to clean plastic waste from oceans. His design uses floating barriers and processing platforms that collect plastic debris while allowing fish and plankton to pass unharmed. The collected plastic can then be recycled. Millions of tons of plastic litter oceans each year and harm aquatic life. Slat's system could dramatically reduce ocean plastic within five years. Environmental companies are interested in producing experimental models of his design later this year.

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    UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCA

    PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD


    CURSO 2013-204
    Instrucciones:

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    LENGUA
    EXTRANJERA
    (INGLS)

    a) Duracin: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuacin de las preguntas est


    indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos debern realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin
    poder mezclar las respuestas.
    Teenager designs platform to clean seas

    A Dutch teenager has invented a device that could clean up some 20 billion tonnes of plastic waste from the
    world's oceans. Boyan S lat, a nineteen year old engineering student, was worried about the amount of plastic rubbish
    that accumulates on the surface of some sea areas, so he came up with the idea of a series of floating barriers and
    processing platforms designed to collect floating plastic rubbish, while allowing fish and plankton to pass through
    undamaged. An additional advantage of the system is that the plastic waste collected by these barriers would be
    stored so that it can be later recycled.
    Millions of tonnes of plastic waste are littering oceans and tend to accumulate in specific areas due to sea
    currents. This litter not only kills millions of aquatic animals annually but also introduces and spreads harmful algae
    and invasive species. Besides, plastic waste also contains pollutants that can enter the human food chain through
    fish. The existing methods for cleaning sea water are not very useful and they cost governments and organisations
    millions of dollars every year.
    Boyan S lat believes that humans must drastically reduce their use of plastic items in the near future, but
    meanwhile his innovation could make a big difference to the cleanliness of oceans in the shorter-term. He thinks that,
    once operational, his device could dramatically reduce the amount of rubbish in the oceans in just about five years
    time.
    Boyan Slat has offered his design to environmental companies and agencies and has already received offers to
    start producing experimental models of his platforms by the end of this year.
    I * COMPREHENSION (4 points: questions 1-3, 1 point each; 4-5, 0.5 points each)
    ANS WER QUE STIONS 1-3 AC C OR DING TO THE INF OR MATION GIVEN IN THE TE XT. USE Y OUR OWN WOR DS.
    1. What will Boyan Slats design be useful for?
    2. Why is plastic rubbish so dangerous?
    3. Has anyone shown interest so far in Slats design? Explain.
    AR E THES E STATEMENTS TR UE OR F ALS E? J USTIF Y Y OUR ANSWER S WITH THE P R EC IS E WOR DS OR P HR AS E S
    F R OM THE TE XT, OR USE Y OUR OWN WOR DS.
    4. Bayon Slats system doesnt harm marine life.
    5. Most governments already have effective systems for cleaning sea-water.
    II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; questions 6-9, 0.25 points each; 10-13, 0.5 points each)
    6. F IND IN THE TEXT ONE OP P OSITE F OR sinking (adjective).
    7. WHIC H WOR D DOES NOT HAVE THE S AME MEANING? litter / stink / waste / rubbish.
    8. F IND IN THE TE XT THE WOR D WHIC H HAS THE F OLLOWING DEF INITION: a good or useful quality that
    something has.
    9. GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME R OOT AS: "efficient" (adjective).
    10. GIVE A QUE STION F OR THE UNDER LINE D WOR DS: Boyan has invented a very special device.
    11. J OIN THE F OLLOWING S ENTENC ES USING A R ELATIVE. MAKE C HANG E S IF NE C E SS AR Y
    The seas are polluted with plastic rubbish. Humans produce that plastic rubbish.
    12. TUR N THE F OLLOWING S ENTE NC E INTO R E P OR TE D S P E EC H: Boyan Slat said: I am going to earn a lot of
    money with this device.
    13. C OMP LETE THE F OLLOWING (C ONDITIONAL) S ENTE NC E. If humans produced less plastic rubbish, .
    .
    III * PRODUCTION (3 points)
    14. WR ITE A C OMP OSITION OF AP P R OXIMATELY 120 WOR DS ABOUT THE TOP IC P R OP OSE D AND F OC US
    STR IC TLY ON IT:
    How can we contribute to preserve the environment?

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