Section A: Banked Cloze
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
When traveling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water? Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or (26) ______ the ruins of Angkor. It’s hot so you grab a bottle of water from a local vendor. It’s the safe thing to do, right? The bottle is (27) ______, and the label says “pure water”, but maybe what’s inside is not so (28) ______. Would you still be drinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water sold around the world (29) ______ microplastics?
That’s the conclusion of a recently (30) ______ study, which analyzed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, (31) ______ an average of 325 plastic particles per liter of water. These microplastics included a (32) ______ commonly known as PET and are widely used in the manufacture of clothing and food and (33) ______ containers. The study was conducted at the State University of New York on behalf of Orb Media, a journalism organization. About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.
Confronted with this (34) ______, several bottled-water manufacturers including Nestle and Coco-Cola undertook their own studies using the same methodology. These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study suggested. Regardless, the World Health Organization has now launched a review into the (35) ______ health risks of drinking water from plastic bottles.
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在国外旅行时，你是买塑料瓶装水还是冒险喝自来水？想象你在泰国的一个小岛上闲逛或探索吴哥窟的废墟。天很热，你从当地小贩那里买了一瓶水。这是安全的做法，对吧？瓶子是密封的，标签上写着"纯净水"，但也许里面的东西并不那么纯净。如果你知道全球销售的瓶装水中有超过90%含有微塑料，你还会喝吗？这是最近发表的一项研究的结论，该研究分析了来自9个国家11个品牌的259瓶水，平均每升水中发现325个塑料颗粒。这些微塑料包括一种通常被称为PET的材料，广泛用于制造服装和食品及液体容器。该研究由纽约州立大学代表新闻机构Orb Media进行。每分钟约有100万瓶被购买，不仅是口渴的游客，还有全球21亿饮用不安全水的人中的许多人。面对这一发现，包括雀巢和可口可乐在内的几家瓶装水制造商使用相同的方法进行了自己的研究。这些研究表明他们的水确实含有微塑料，但远低于Orb研究所示的水平。无论如何，世界卫生组织现已启动对饮用塑料瓶装水的潜在健康风险的审查。Answers & Explanations
26. B (admiring)。解析：空格位于 or 之后，与前面的 wandering about 并列，需要动词的 -ing 形式。意为“漫步在泰国岛屿或（欣赏 admiring）吴哥窟遗迹”。
27. M (sealed)。解析：描述瓶子的物理状态，且在 but 转折之前，应该是正面描述。sealed 意为“密封的”，指瓶子看起来没开封，很安全。
28. A (adequate)。解析：根据上下文，虽然标签写着“纯净水”，但里面可能并非那么“充足/合格”。或者选 I (natural) 表示不那么天然。但在真题标准答案中，此处意为质量不一定达标，选用 adequate 或此处语境指代纯净度，考虑到 2019 年该卷库，此处 A (adequate) 或 I (natural) 需结合下文，通常指代品质。
29. C (contains)。解析：主语是 bottled water (单数)，时态为一般现在时。意为“全世界 90% 的瓶装水都（包含 contains）微塑料”。
30. K (released)。解析：修饰 study。recently released study 意为“最近发布的项研究”。
31. L (revealing)。解析：现在分词作状语，描述研究的结果。意为“分析了 259 瓶水，（揭示了 revealing）平均每升含有 325 个塑料颗粒”。
32. O (substance)。解析：a ______ commonly known as PET。PET 是一种化学物质，故选 substance (物质)。
33. G (liquid)。解析：修饰 containers。塑料广泛用于服装、食品和（液体 liquid）容器的制造。
34. E (evidence)。解析：Confronted with this ______。面对这项研究给出的“证据/事实”，故选 evidence。
35. J (potential)。解析：修饰 health risks。世卫组织启动了对“潜在的 potential”健康风险的审查。