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14. Think over the proper Ukrainian equivalents to the following word-combinations:

- to be interdisciplinary, intersecting and overlapping

- to reflect a desire to limit damages to the environment

- agreements paralleled national legislation

- to injure the territory

- a plethora of legally-binding international agreements

- terrestrial, marine and atmospheric pollution

- wildlife and biodiversity protection

- sustainable development

- environmentalists and environmental lawyers

- stricter global regulation of human impacts on the natural environment

- the synergies between combating poverty and improving the environment

- environmental law treaties

- to be contentious

- to warn other states about emergencies of an environmental nature

- to have full power in its own territory to do as it pleases

Section c Language study

Vocabulary

15. Match each term on the left with explanations on the right:

a) acid rain

b) carbon dioxide

c) CFCS

d) global warming

e) greenhouse effect

f) ozone layer

g) sewage

h) rain forest

1. solid and liquid wastes from bathtubs, toilets and sinks.

2. when harmful gases from cars and power plants are released into the air and fall back to the Earth with rain and snow.

3. a layer of gas high in the sky which protects us from the harmful ultraviolet rays.

4. a gas produced when animals breathe out when carbon is burned in air.

5. an increase in the Earth temperature, caused by a build up of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere.

6. short for chloro-fluoro-carbons gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners that damage the ozone layer.

7. tropical forest with tall trees, growing in an area where it rains a lot.

8. when gases from factories, electric power plants, and cars trap the sun’s heat and warm up the Earth.

16. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. In most of the lines there is a word that does not fit grammatically. Write this unwanted word on the right. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). The first two are given as exampled.

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

0 This week in Kyoto in Japan the latest conference

……√…..

00 on the environment is being taking place. The whole

…being….

1. world is today watching to see what happens

…………

2. as delegates from more than 165 countries discuss

…………

3. what measures need not to be taken to reduce the

…………

4. fumes that do create the Greenhouse Effect. They

…………

5. are hope to agree on ways of reducing the amount

…………

6. of carbon dioxide and other gases that we

…………

7. send into the atmosphere. These gases to act the way a

…………

8. greenhouse does and, as a result, the Earth is

…………

9. be getting hotter and hotter all the time. The

…………

10. temperature it is rising gradually and

…………

11. in 100 years’ time the Earth will be hotter by about 4

…………

12. The problem is be getting worse as more cars

…………

13. are make an appearance on our already crowded roads.

…………

14. The solution in Kyoto is depends on what the United States,

…………

15. the most powerful nation on Earth, feels is in its interests.

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