五、完形填空。(2025·黑龙江齐齐哈尔、黑河、大兴安岭改编)
Dear editor(编辑),
Fashion(时尚) is the second most polluting industry. People just keep on buying new clothes and throwing them away or giving them away to charity shops
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1 they are worn only a few times.
I don't think people know
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2 clothing pollution is destroying our planet. I know I can't request people to think in the
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3 way as I do, but it is important for people to know the fact. I decide to write the
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4 because I hope more people around my age will read it and together we can make an effort.
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5, the beaches of an African country, Ghana, are badly polluted now. The beaches of its capital, Accra, are covered with clothing waste. Every week, millions of clothes from all over the world are
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6 to the second-hand clothing market in this city. But about 40% of them leave the markets as waste. However, the city is
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7 the sea, so there's not enough space for landfills(垃圾填埋场). This is
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8 a lot of clothing waste ends up on the beach.
The Citarum River in Indonesia
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9 water for millions of people. Lots of people use it for almost
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, including drinking water, as it is the only fresh water they can use. However, there are many clothing factories pouring
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11 waste into it. This greatly does harm to the people who
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12 the river.
As well as this, the water in the Aral Sea was used to grow cotton for years. Now the sea has almost disappeared. It takes 2,700 litres(升) water to grow enough cotton to make one
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13. To satisfy our hope for more new clothes, we are polluting their water and people there are getting
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14. This is not right.
Without your help, my voice can't be
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15. Please bring it to more people's attention.
Jenny
