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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers ID: #35275 Medium Plastic
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Listen to the recording and answer the question by selecting all the correct responses. You will need to select more than one response.

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Plastic is lightweight, malleable, durable. But it has also become so widespread that it's ending up in a lot of unwanted places—including our own bodies. That's according to a new study, which found that humans are consuming a shocking amount of so-called "microplastics". "Microplastics, the kind of current working definition, is plastic less than five millimeters. So people commonly equate that to something like a grain of rice or a sesame seed and down in terms of size class. I will say that most of the microplastics that people are interacting with are quite a bit smaller than the sesame seed size, which I think always kinds of shocks people when we start talking about the numbers because they kind of can't see a lot of these things, at least with the naked eye." Kieran Cox, a PhD candidate in marine biology at the University of Victoria in Canada and one of the authors of the study, which is in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Which of the following statements about microplastics are incorrect?

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Option 1: "Microplastics is not as widespread as plastics."

Explanation: The text states that microplastics are widespread and ending up in unwanted places, including human bodies. Therefore, this option contradicts the information in the text.

Option 2: "Microplastics are generally invisible to the naked eye."

Explanation: The text mentions that most microplastics are smaller than a sesame seed and that people cannot see many of these things with the naked eye, implying that they are indeed generally invisible.

Option 3: "Microplastics are beneficial to people's health."

Explanation: The text does not provide any information that supports the idea that microplastics are beneficial to health. In fact, the context suggests that their presence is concerning, making this statement incorrect.

Option 4: "Humans consume a surprising amount of microplastics."

Explanation: The text explicitly states that humans are consuming a shocking amount of microplastics, which indicates that this statement is true and therefore not incorrect.

Option 5: "Microplastics are as small as or smaller than a sesame seed."

Explanation: The text clarifies that microplastics are often much smaller than a sesame seed, which means this statement is misleading and incorrect.

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