4. Answer the following questions:

1. What is environmental pollution?

2. What is the most serious problem facing humanity today?

3. What does polluted water kill?

4. What can badly polluted air cause?

5. Who can pass and enforce laws reducing polluting activities?

6. Name all kinds of environmental pollution.

5. Make up sentences with the help of the words from right and left columns:

1. People also pollute 1. is one of the most serious problems

2. Everyone wants facing humanity

3. Pollution of soil 2. reduces the amount of land

4. Environmental pollution 3. to reduce pollution

5. Too much fertilizer 4. their surroundings in various other

6. All parts of the environment ways

7. Badly polluted air 5. Are closely related to one another

6. 6. can ruin soil

7. can cause illness

6. Give definitions to the following words:

Smoke, poison, fertilizer, crop, pollute.

1. agricultural plants in the fields;

2. make dirty;

3. chemical plant food; artificial manure;

4. visible vapour with particles of carbon, etc. Coming from a burning substance;

5. substance causing death or harm if absorbed by a living thing (animal, or plant)

7. Summarize in own words the main idea of the text.

8. Read and translate the text b:

anti- pollution To pollute means to make something dirty/ Anti- pollution is the word that describes something that is against pollution or that doesn't make air, land or water unclean.

environment Environment is the name for all the things that are around a person or an object. In this passage environment is the air, land water that surrounds people.

device A Device is something invented for a special purpose.

Only the government can ensure that the American people have clean air and pure water. Congress must pass laws to stop manufacturers from polluting the air and water with the wastes from their factories.

Unless anti- pollution standards are enforced for all, companies that care about a clean environment will go out of business. For example, if Automobile Company X spends money to put an air- pollution control device on their automobiles, their cars will be more expensive than the cars produced by another company. People who don't have the extra money or who don't care about pollution will not buy the more expensive car. Automobile Company X will go bankrupt; that is, it won't make enough money to pay its workers and to buy materials. It will go out of business. Of course, no automobile company will deliberately make itself go bankrupt, and so the pollution of the land and air and water will go on.

But if the government says that all automobile manufactures must make cars with air- pollution control devices, the costs to all car manufacturers will be equal. The government cannot let companies decide whether or not they want to stop pollution. The government must force manufacturers to help clean up the environment by setting anti- pollution standards for everyone.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

1. Manufacturers should not pollute the air.

2. Automobile Company X would go bankrupt.

3. The government should set anti- pollution standards.

4. A clean environment is needed.

2. What is the purpose of this passage?

1. to describe how a company can go bankrupt

2. to describe what it would be like to have a clean environment

3. to tell how the writer feels about Automobile Company X

4. to tell how the writer feels about the government and anti- pollution standards

3. What does the writer feel is the important problem in this passage?

1. People don't have extra money to buy cars made by Automobile Company X.

2. Automobile companies won't stop pollution the environment by themselves.

3. The governments must enforce anti- pollution standards.

4. Automobile companies must put air- pollution control devices on their cars.

4. What does "deliberately" mean in this passage?

1. on purpose (3) without cause

2. quickly (4) by itself

5. What does "standards" mean in this passage?

1. devices (3) equipment

2. rules (4) businesses