TOEFL TPO -1 Writing Task 1 Sample: The article insists that device called an Ocean Cleanup Array could collect and remove the plastic debris from the oceans efficiently and lists three explanations how it will work. However, the speakers respectively contradicts the article by using three specific points as supports.
Firstly, the passage contends that comparing with other ocean cleanup method, the OCA is about 30 times less expensive per unit of plastic removed which cost less. Contrarily, the speaker rebuts that 400 million dollars is only start, we need to put more since there are thousands of plastic going to ocean every year which means we need to buy more than 1 device, may be hundreds or thousands. What's more, the chemicals substance on the ocean do damage to the device, we need put a huge budget to repair it. There is no way the OCA can be the cheap way.
Besides, the passage points out that due to the floating barriers of the OCA are solid and fixed, they won't catch any marine animals and hurt them. However, the speakers holds an opposite opinion. He states that natural ocean currents not only will carry the plastic toward the barriers but also the plankton a tiny ocean marine life.Since many marine animals prey on the plankton, the decline of the plankton would have negative impact on the ocean ecosystem.
Last, the passage deems that Plastic collected from the ocean can be recycled and be sold to recycling facilities. Still, the speaker thinks differently, he argues that plastic debris already mixed up with the ocean organism, they need to be separated which cost lots. The recycling facilities won't buy the debris since the separation procedure is expensive. • LingoLeap