11. Translate into English:

1) Темпи зростання населення в цій країні набагато

вищі.

2) Випуск сільськогосподарської продукції на півночі

країни набагато нижчий.

3) На півдні країни набагато менше корисних копалин.

4) Рівень безробіття в цій країні набагато вищий, ніж

у сусідніх країнах.

5) Ця проблема дуже актуальна та набагато складніша,

ніж здається.

6) Це завдання набагато простіше вчорашнього.

12. Read and translate paying attention to the word-

formation:

low-productivity agriculture high-income countries

large-scale unemployment middle-income countries

large-scale movement short-term loans

low-income countries long-term borrowing

13. Match the words which are close in their meaning:

major	very
scarce	main
fortunate	insufficient
rapid	lucky
extremely	quick
labour force	to make
shortage	to have
land	soil
to possess	workers
to create	lack

14. Match the words which have opposite meaning:

dry	quick
rapid	slight
serious	fortunate
unfortunate	low
high	minor
major	unfavourable
favourable	small
large	wet

15. Write down the questions for the following answers:

_______________	Oh, they face quite a lot of problems.
_______________	More than 70% of them work on the land.
_______________	Yes, they have very scarce natural resources
_______________	Yes, they do lack capital goods.
_______________	Oh, unemployment is really a problem for these countries.

16. Underline one sentence which seems most important to

you, in each paragraph.

17. Complete and read these short dialogues:

1. - What are the major problems facing...

- They are as follows:…

2. – What is the growth rate…

- Oh, it’s much higher than…

3. - Do they all lack…

- Unfortunately...

4. – Which problem of… seems most important to you?

- To my mind, it is... because...

Text 3: Ecological problems

As the time goes global concentrations of atmospheric pollution seriously threatens the ozone layer. It means the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases and increased ozone depletion. This threatens to lead to dramatic climatic changes or global warming. To reduce these threats, as the scientists of the various countries of the world say, global emissions must be sharply curtailed.

A number of gases contribute significantly to the stock of greenhouse gases. CO₂ has the greatest impact. The burning of fuels by automobiles and industries are main sources of greenhouse gases.

Less damaging sources include deforestation, animal husbandary, wet rice cultivation, decomposition of waste, and coal mining.

Together all developing countries, with roughly three-quarters of the world's population, produce less than one-third of industrial CO₂.

Because incomes and consumption are higher in the wealthiest countries, per capita emissions are much higher. For example, the level of per capita emissions in the United States is more than twice bigger than that in Europe, 19 times higher that than in Africa and 25 times higher than that in India.

Though Third World countries account for a relatively small proportion of industrial CO₂, they produce practically of the CO₂ in the secondary category, generally resulting from the burning of vegetation to clear new land.

A study jointly sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program shows that global warming is growing. It says that if current emission trends continue, the mean global temperatures may rise 3C by the end of the twenty-first century.

The potentially catastrophic consequences of climate changes have caused widespread cries for joint preventive policy to combat environmental pollution, concentration of greenhouse gases and ozone depletion.

Statesmen and scientists stress that responsibility for re­ducing emissions must be divided across the members of the international community. The share of responsibility may be remarkably different depending on industrial development, income, social structure and political orientation of a country There is great controversy over the extent to which each government must control the emissions produced by its local population, industry and agriculture.