Bath-Toy Cargo - Test 1

C1 Advanced · Listening Sentence Completion · Cambridge English Advanced 1, Cambridge University Press

You will hear a man called Steven Kane giving a presentation about research into a cargo of children's bath-toys which were lost at sea. For questions 1–8, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

had the most surprising colour.

Of the four kinds of bath-toy lost at sea, Steven thinks the

The subject Steven was teaching when he first read about the bath-toys was

, some of which turned up alongside the bath-toys.

In Alaska, Steven heard of a lost consignment of

in their research.

Steven discovered that the bath-toys are used by scientists known as

industry.

Steven says that the findings obtained by researchers were immediately useful to the

adversely affected by plastic pollutants in the sea.

Steven mentions the particular case of a

Steven regarded the factory that he traced in China as the bath-toys'

on his journey across the Arctic.

Steven travelled on something called an

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