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专题05  2021全国乙卷阅读理解C篇点对点变式训练（学生版）变式考点早知道考点一高频单词短语句型考点二说明文选标题解题指导考点三说明文选标题12个片段考点四阅读理解C篇全文翻译第一部分：高考母题再现（2021全国乙卷，保留原题序号）You’ve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans — between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products. At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called “Strawpocalypse,” a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source(来源)of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that’s part of Von Wong’s artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear. In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate(说明)a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload’s worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled “Truckload of Plastic,” Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they’d been dumped(倾倒)from a truck all at once. Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.28. What are Von Wong’s artworks intended for?A. Beautifying the city he lives in. B. Introducing eco-friendly products.C. Drawing public attention to plastic waste. D. Reducing garbage on the beach.29. Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?A. To show the difficulty of their recycling.  B. To explain why they are useful.C. To voice his views on modern art. D. To find a substitute for them.30. What effect would “Truckload of Plastic” have on viewers?A. Calming.       B. Disturbing.   C. Refreshing.      D. Challenging.31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Artists’ Opinions on Plastic Safety   B. Media Interest in Contemporary ArtC. Responsibility Demanded of Big Companies D. Ocean Plastics Transformed into Sculptures第二部分：高考母题点对点变式（2021全国乙卷）变式一：高频单词短语句型
1. massive  adj大量的，大规模的2. garbage  n垃圾，废物3. illustrate  vt加插图于；说明4. statistic  n  统计数字，统计资料5. title   vt给（书籍等）加标题；赋予头衔6. beautify  vt使美丽，美化7. substitute  n替代品，代替物8. disturbing  adj令人不安的，引起恐慌的9. refreshing  adj令人耳目一新的10. calming  adj  平静的11. make a difference  有影响，有重要作用12. make one’s first appearance首次亮相13. come under fire   受到严厉批评14. by no means    决不，一点也不15. a truckload’s worth of 一卡车(量)的……16. all at once    一起，同时17. plastic straw    塑料吸管18. be intended for   为……设计的19. draw attention to   使人们关注20. contemporary art   当代艺术
变式二：说明文选标题 变式精练01   What are the tallest plants in the world? Many people would say that giant redwood trees of California. Actually, the tallest plants are in the oceans. These are seaweeds that grow almost seven hundred feet tall. Compared to this height, the giant redwoods are pygmies of only four hundred feet. To get some idea of these heights, consider the Statue of Liberty. This huge figure rises only three hundred feet.1. The passage can be entitled __________.A. Redwoods in California    B. The Statue of LibertyC. Seaweed                D. The Tallest Plants变式精练02We think of a flood or an earthquake as a natural disaster. To many of nature’s animals, however, the greatest disaster is the coming of large numbers of humans. When settlers came from the East to America’s great western plains, they killed millions of bison, poisoned the prairie dogs, and shot the coyotes. All this upset the area's balance of nature. For the animals, it was worse than a flood or earthquake.2. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. Nature Balance Itself       B. Floods and EarthquakesC. Humans--a Disaster to Nature   D. American Settlers变式精练03One of the most important weapons used during the Second World War was not a weapon used against people, but rather a drug used against disease. The wartime use of penicillin saved thousands of lives. In the First World War, for example, pneumonia(肺炎) was responsible for eighteen percent of all the deaths in the United States army. In the Second World War, the rate went down to less than one percent. In addition, penicillin was instrumental in keeping wounds from getting infected and in helping to speed the healing process of those wounds that did become infected.3. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. An Important Drug       B. Guns in the Second World WarC. A Terrible Pneumonia      D. A Dangerous Weapon变式精练04An Australian wildlife park attendant survived a crocodile attack after her father jumped on the huge crocodile's back and dug out its eyes as the horrified tourists looked on.   Karla Bredl, 21, was in a fairly good condition in good care in hospital with a broken bone, a broken leg and some injuries after the attack.   The 4.5-metre crocodile caught Karla Bredl around the leg and then the waist when she fell during a crocodile feeding show for tourists.Karla's father seized a long-handled tool and beat the crocodile about the head to force it to let go of her, but the tool was doing nothing. So he jumped on its back and stuck his fingers in its eyes and the crocodile let go of her.4. The best title of the passage is _________.A. The Hateful Crocodile    B. Father Saved Daughter's LifeC. A Terrible Accident     D. The Dangerous Place变式精练05(2020全国I卷) The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants.The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater. ＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off＂switch＂where the glow would fade when exposed to daylight.Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source(电源)-such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway-a lot of energy is lost during transmission(传输).Glowing plants could reduce this distance and therefore help save energy.1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?A. A new study of different plants.B. A big fall in crime rates.C. Employees from various workplaces.D. Benefits from green plants.2. What is the function of the sensors printed on plant leaves by MIT engineer?A. To detect plants’ lack of waterB. To change compositions of plantsC. To make the life of plants longer.D. To test chemicals in plants.3. What can we expect of the glowing plants in the future?A. They will speed up energy production.B. They may transmit electricity to the home.C. They might help reduce energy consumption.D. They could take the place of power plants.4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Can we grow more glowing plants?B. How do we live with glowing plants?C. Could glowing plants replace lamps?D. How are glowing plants made pollution-free?变式精练06 (2020全国Ⅱ卷) Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child, but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.Psychologist Susan Levine, an expert on mathematics development in young children the University of Chicago, found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition(认知) after controlling for differences in parents’ income, education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months of age.“The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate(旋转)and translate shapes,” Levine said in a statement.The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would, and about half of children in the study played with puzzles at one time. Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently, and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills. However, boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls, and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than parents of girls.The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.1. In which aspect do children benefit from puzzle play?A. Building confidence. B. Developing spatial skills.C. Learning self-control. D. Gaining high-tech knowledge.2. What did Levine take into consideration when designing her experiment？A. Parents’ age. B. Children’s imagination.C. Parents’ education. D. Child-parent relationship.3. How do boy differ from girls in puzzle play?A. They play with puzzles more often.B. They tend to talk less during the game.C. They prefer to use more spatial language.D. They are likely to play with tougher puzzles.4. What is the text mainly about?A. A mathematical method. B. A scientific study.C. A woman psychologist D. A teaching program.变式精练07 (2020全国Ⅲ卷) We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago. As scientists look deeper into our genes (基因), they are finding examples of human evolution in just the past few thousand years. People in Ethiopian highlands have adapted to living at high altitudes. Cattle -raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation (突变) that helps them digest milk as adults.On Thursday in an article published in Cell, a team of researchers reported a new kind of adaptation - not to air or to food, but to the ocean. A group of sea-dwelling people in Southeast Asia have evolved into better divers. The Bajau, as these people are known, number in the hundreds of thousands in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. They have traditionally lived on houseboats; in recent times, they’ve also built houses on stilts (支柱) in coastal waters. “They are simply a stranger to the land,” said Redney C. Jubilado, a University of Hawaii researcher who studies the Bajau.Dr. Jubilado first met the Bajau while growing up on Samal Island in the Philippines. They made a living as divers, spearfishing or harvesting shellfish. “We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders,” Dr. Jubilado said. “I could see them actually walking under the sea.”In2015, Melissa Ilardo, then a graduate student in genetics at the University of Copenhagen, heard about the Bajau. She wondered if centuries of diving could have led to the evolution of physical characteristics that made the task easier for them. “it seemed like the perfect chance for natural selection to act on a population,” said Dr. Ilardo. She also said there were likely a number of other genes that help the Bajau dive.5. What does the author want to tell us by the examples in paragraph 1?A. Environmental adaptation of cattle raisers. B. New knowledge of human evolution.C. Recent findings of human origin. D. Significance of food selection.6. Where do the Bajau build their houses?A. In valleys. B. Near rivers. C. On the beach. D. Off the coast.7. Why was the young Jubilado astonished at the Bajau?A. They could walk on stilts all day. B. They had a superb way of fishing.C. They could stay long underwater. D. They lived on both land and water.8. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea B. Highlanders’ Survival SkillsC. Basic Methods of Genetic Research D. The World’s Best Divers变式精练08A new “Magic Bench” designed by Disney Research lets you interact (互动) with lovely animated (动画的) characters — and no special glasses or earphones are required. Instead, the complete environment — the seat, the sitter and the cartoon characters — is mirrored on a screen opposite the bench making it possible for others to watch the scene unfold.How does the illusion work? A camera and sensor catch images and gather depth information about physical objects — the bench and the person. And then a computer translates them into the 3D animations. Meanwhile sensors of touch built into the bench deliver shaking that is happening at the same time and speed to animated actions on the screen, creating the illusion that the animated figures are occupying real­world space next to the user.“Our goal for this project was: hear characters coming, see them enter the space, and feel them sit next to you，” said Moshe Mahler, principal digital artist at Disney Research. Unlike the traditional mobile technology, one of whose limitations is that only a single user can see its illusion, the Magic Bench allows groups of people to gather in a single environment and collectively participate in an augmented reality (扩充实境) experience, all at the same time.In a video show, a small cartoon donkey runs into view and kicks the bench, causing a sharp sound and making the seated person jump in surprise. Another test shows two people on the bench, reacting as they “feel” an animated rabbit skip up beside them and jump up and down. When a user passes his hand over the rabbit, a shadow moves across its head, as though it were occupying the same physical space as the person next to it.1. What does the Magic Bench need to work properly? A. Special glasses.　　　　 B. Earphones. C. A mirror.  D. A screen.2. What does the underlined word “illusion” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The shaking that is happening. B. The 3D animations on the screen. C. The figures about physical objects. D. The interaction with animated figures.3. How is the Magic Bench different from the traditional technology? A. Its fantasy can be seen only by a single user. B. It is designed to create more animated characters. C. It allows many people to experience the fantasy together. D. Its user and the animated character occupy the same space.4. Which is the best title for the text? A. Magic Bench Puts You in the Picture B. Audiences Become Cartoon CharactersC. Entertainment Industry Enters a New Stage  D. Disney’s Cartoon Figures Come into Reality词汇积累：
mirror vt. 反射；反映 illusion n. 幻觉，错觉；错误的观念或信仰principal adj. 主要的；资本的digital adj. 数字的；手指的mobile adj. 可移动的；机动的；易变的；非固定的limitation n. 限制；极限；追诉时效；有效期限collectively adv. 集体地，共同地 collect vt. 收集；募捐collection n.  采集，聚集；[税收] 征收；收藏品；募捐collective  adj.集体的；集合的；集体主义的donkey n. 驴子kick v. 踢，踢腿；sharp adj. 刺耳的rabbit n. 兔子occupy vt. 占据，占领next to 紧挨着figure vi. 扮演角色
 变式精练09 (2021·山西朔州市高三一模)Hundreds of people die at sea every year due to ship and airplane accidents.Emergency teams have little time to rescue those in the water because the probability of finding a person alive fall dramatically after six hours.Beyond tides and challenging weather conditions, unsteady coastal currents often make search and rescue operations extremely difficult.New insight into coastal flows gained by an international research team led by George Haller, Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at ETH Zurich, promises to enhance the search and rescue techniques currently in use.Using tools from dynamical systems theory and ocean data, the team has developed an algorithm(算法) to predict where objects and people floating in water will go.“Our work has a clear potential to save lives，” says Mattia Serra, the first author of a study recently published in NatureCommunications.In today’s rescue operations at sea, complicated models of ocean dynamics and weather forecasting are used to predict the path of floating objects.For fast-changing coastal waters, however, such predictions are often inaccurate due to uncertain boundaries and missing data.As a result, a search may be launched in the wrong location, causing a loss of precious time.Haller’s research team obtained mathematical results predicting that objects floating on the ocean’s surface should gather along a few special curves(曲线) which they call TRansient Attracting Profiles(TRAPs). These curves can’t be seen with our eyes but can be tracked from instant ocean surface current data using recent mathematical methods developed by the ETH team.This enables quick and precise planning of search paths that are less sensitive to uncertainties in the time and place of the accident.In cooperation with a team from MIT, the ETH team tested their new, TRAP-based search algorithm in two separate ocean experiments near Martha’s Vineyard, which is on the northeastern coast of the United States.Working from the same real-time data available to the Coast Guard, the team successfully identified TRAPs in the region in real time.They found that buoys and manikins(浮标和人体模型) thrown in the water indeed quickly gathered along these emerging curves.“Of several competing approaches tested in this project, this was the only algorithm that consistently found the right location，” says Haller.“Our results are rapidly obtained, easy to interpret and cheap to perform，” points out Serra.Haller stresses, “Our hope is that this method will become a standard part of the tool kit of coast guards everywhere.”1. In a search and rescue operation, ________.A. the survival rate drops to almost zero after six hoursB. the use of dynamics leads to the wrong locationC. weather conditions are a determining factorD. changing currents present a challenge2. What is the distinct feature of the new algorithm?A. It relies on ocean dynamics.B. It tracks the path of the curves.C. It stops the uncertainties of the accident.D. It figures out how tides change over time.3. Paragraph 5 mainly talks about ________.A. the collection of dataB. the testing of the algorithmC. the identification of the TRAPsD. the cooperation of two research teams4. What is the best title for the passage?A. Why Success Rates of Rescue Operations have FallenB. Why Algorithms are Popular in Rescue OperationsC. How Mathematics Can Save Lives at SeaD. How Coastal Waters Affect Saving Lives变式精练10 (2021·安徽江南十校高三3月一模联考)“We’ve designed buildings for 100-year floods，” says Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, director of the Institute for Health in the Built Environment.“But there will be another epidemic or another pandemic—or there might just be another flu season.Let’s go ahead and learn to design for the 100-year flu.”Public health officials agree that one of the simplest ways to prevent the indoor spread of the virus is to increase the amount of outside air that comes into our buildings.The simple act of opening a window can meaningfully reduce the concentration of infectious(感染的) particles in the air.But in many current office buildings, the windows aren’t operable.Creating a tight air seal in a building is one of the main strategies used to make buildings more energy-saving.So architects are now wrestling with how to increase air circulation without accelerating energy consumption.One solution, according to Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, is a special type of window design.This allows outside air to be warmed or cooled, as needed, when it enters the building.Most current office buildings usually adopt open-plan offices, which are suitable for modern office work.But in time of pandemic, viruses spread easily among workers in the office.Rather than seal employees into individual hard-walled rooms, office designers can preserve the benefits of open-plan offices by fitting airflow systems that clean the air breathed out.For example, vents(通风口) can be installed at the top of the room to pull out the cloud of exhaled(呼出的) air and for fresh air to be delivered along the floor.This type of “biophilic design” can increase productivity and improve physical health.What all these changes have in common is that they’ll happen only if the public continue to focus on indoor health after the acute crisis of the pandemic has passed.In the long run, what’s perhaps even more important is making whole environments support human immune function.1. According to Kevin, what is a solution to improving air circulation without consuming more energy?A. Creating specially-designed windows.B. Increasing the amount of outside air.C. Fitting vents at the top of the building.D. Designing a tight air seal in the building.2. Which of the following may be considered a “biophilic design”？A. Offices with exhaled air.B. Offices with airflow systems.C. Offices with big windows.D. Offices with individual rooms.3. What does the author focus on in the last paragraph?A. Adding some background information.B. Explaining the concept of indoor health.C. Expressing the expectation for the future.D. Providing the theoretical basis for the research.4. What can be the best title for the passage?A. Setting up buildings good for the environmentB. The need to put human health in the first placeC. Redesigning the office for the next 100-year fluD. The simplest way to stop indoor spread of viruses变式精练11We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago. As scientists look deeper into our genes (基因), they are finding examples of human evolution in just the past few thousand years. People in Ethiopian highlands have adapted to living at high altitudes. Cattle -raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation (突变) that helps them digest milk as adults.On Thursday in an article published in Cell, a team of researchers reported a new kind of adaptation - not to air or to food, but to the ocean. A group of sea-dwelling people in Southeast Asia have evolved into better divers. The Bajau, as these people are known, number in the hundreds of thousands in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. They have traditionally lived on houseboats; in recent times, they’ve also built houses on stilts (支柱) in coastal waters. “They are simply a stranger to the land,” said Redney C. Jubilado, a University of Hawaii researcher who studies the Bajau.Dr. Jubilado first met the Bajau while growing up on Samal Island in the Philippines. They made a living as divers, spearfishing or harvesting shellfish. “We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders,” Dr. Jubilado said. “I could see them actually walking under the sea.”In2015, Melissa Ilardo, then a graduate student in genetics at the University of Copenhagen, heard about the Bajau. She wondered if centuries of diving could have led to the evolution of physical characteristics that made the task easier for them. “it seemed like the perfect chance for natural selection to act on a population,” said Dr. Ilardo. She also said there were likely a number of other genes that help the Bajau dive.1. What does the author want to tell us by the examples in paragraph 1? A. Environmental adaptation of cattle raisers. B. New knowledge of human evolution.C. Recent findings of human origin. D. Significance of food selection.2. Where do the Bajau build their houses?A. In valleys. B. Near rivers. C. On the beach. D. Off the coast.3. Why was the young Jubilado astonished at the Bajau?A. They could walk on stilts all day. B. They had a superb way of fishing.C. They could stay long underwater. D. They lived on both land and water.4. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea B. Highlanders’ Survival SkillsC. Basic Methods of Genetic Research D. The World’s Best Divers变式精练12(河南省名校联盟2021-2022学年上学期高三第一次诊断考试英语试题) The LEGO Group, whose plastic building toys are familiar to many people, has been working on making LEGO bricks out of recycled plastic. The bricks aren't ready yet, but the company says it's making progress. Since roughly 1960, LEGO bricks have been made from ABS plastic which makes LEGO bricks very tough and gives them great clutch power so that the things users build don't fall apart easily. Sadly, ABS plastic can't really be recycled and it takes an extremely long time to break down. However, since 2015, LEGO has been trying to make earth-friendly products. Making bricks from recycled materials could cut pollution from the company's bricks by 70%. But making bricks out of recycled plastic is challenging. The goal is to make bricks out of PET plastic, which is softer than ABS plastic and can be found in things like bottles and clothing. A recycled one-liter plastic bottle could make about ten 2×4 LEGO bricks. Over the past three years, the company has tested over 250 different ways of creating LEGO bricks from recycled plastic. A team of more than 150 people are working on the problem. Tim Brooks,who focuses on environmental responsibility at LEGO, says that experimenting and failing is “an important part of learning”. Now, the company says they can make a good 2×4 brick from PET. One important step was finding a way of adding things to PET plastic to make it tougher and give it better clutch power like ABS. They will also work on shaping bricks into other forms and adding color to them-right now they are just white. The bricks will go through many different tests, which will take at least a year. The company aims to make all their main products out of sustainable materials by the year 2030. “We know kids care about the environment and we want to tell them we're working on it.” said Mr. Brooks.1. Which of the following can best describe LEGO bricks made from ABS plastic?A. Strong and firm.        B. Recyclable and soft.C. Cheap and familiar.       D. Popular and new.2. Why is LEGO working on making PET plastic bricks?A. Because the company wants to show that it's making progress.B. Because this has always been LEGO's goal since its foundation.C. Because using PET plastic bricks can reduce pollution to the earth.D. Because PET plastic bricks are much softer and cheaper.3. What can we learn about making PET plastic bricks?A. LEGO has found a way to make colorful PET plastic bricks.B. It's not necessary to put things into PET plastic to make it tough.C. A lot of tests have been carried out and there will be more tests.D. Children keep asking the company to replace ABS plastic bricks.4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. LEGO becomes a leading toy companyB. LEGO works to make bricks from recycled plasticC. LEGO recycles plastic toy bricks to protect the environmentD. LEGO makes the best of ABS plastic to reduce cost 变式三：阅读理解C篇全文翻译你听说过塑料污染海洋每年有480万到1270万吨进入海洋生态系统。但一根塑料吸管或一个塑料杯子真的能起作用吗？艺术家Benjamin Von Wong想让你知道这是真的。他用塑料垃圾建造了巨大的雕塑，迫使观众重新审视他们与一次性塑料制品的关系。年初，艺术家创作了一幅名为"Strawpocalypse”的作品，一对10英尺高的塑料巨浪，在将要撞击的过程中凝固住了。这座雕塑由从几次海滩清理志愿者那里收集的16.8万根塑料吸管制成，首次出现在越南胡志明市的埃斯特拉广场购物中心。全球只有9%的塑料废料被回收利用。塑料吸管绝不是塑料污染的最大来源，但最近它们遭到严厉批判，因为大多数人不需要用塑料吸管喝饮料或喝酒，而且，由于塑料吸管体积小、重量轻，无法回收利用。Von Wong作品中的每一根吸管都可能来自一种饮料，而这种饮料只有几分钟的时间。一旦饮料消失，吸管需要几个世纪才能消失。在2018年的一篇文章中，Von Wong想说明一个具体的统计数字；每60秒，一卡车的塑料就会进入海洋。在这项名为“一卡车塑料”的工作中，Von Wong和一组志愿者收集了1万多块塑料，然后将它们绑在一起，看起来就像是从卡车上一下子扔下来的一样。Von Wong希望他的工作也能帮助迫使大公司减少塑料足迹。