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    2 Questions 23-33 are based on the following passage and supplementary material. ‘The Power of Metaphor In 1997, oceanographer Charles J. Moore was sailing in the North Pacific Ocean when he came upon a vast area full of debris, Moore described the debris field, which included such objects as a volleyball and a truck tire, im a 2003 article for Natural History magazine. By 2007 Moore's discovery had attracted additional media coverage and a compelling name: the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Although the name was memorable, it was a 1omer. The patch was not, as some media reports implied, an “island of trash” piled high with conventional items of garbage. Rather, it was composed mainly of tiny particle's floating under the water's surface. distanced himself from the trash metaphors in 2011, calling them “media-concocted embellishments of the truth.” Nevertheless, the “garbage patch” term ‘endured, sparking new interest in the problem of marine pollution in general and microplastics in particular. Unstrio

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