Read the sample and make up your own resume.
Personal information
Name: Raymond Roussel
Home address: Rue Moreau-Nelaton, 48, Apt. 15, Paris, France
Present address: Flat 9, 25, Newcastle Road Consett, Co Durham,
England
Date and place of birth: 05.14.1961, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Sex: male
Marital status: single
Education
Secondary education:
Senior High School in Paris,
High School Graduation Certificate
Further education:
military service
University of Lyon, BS in Computer Studies
University of Paris, PhD in Systems Engineering
Employment
I took a year off and with some friends sailed round theworld in 12-metre sailing cruiser.
Franco-Italian Bank, Milan: Systems Analyst
1989-1990 Imprimery Ledoux, Paris: Control Systems Supervisor 1990- Topdown Systems, UK: Client Consultant (promoted to
Senior Software Development Engineer, July 1991)
Other information
Languages: French (native)
English (fluent, spoken/written)
Referees
Mrs. Helen Andrews
Manager, Industrial Clients Department,
Topdown Systems Ltd
Unit 37, Medomsley Road
Consett Country Durham DU 11 SAE,
England
(names of other referees will be supplied on request)
Unit VIII The Cost of Economic Growth. Pollution.
Remember the words and word-combinations:
environment навколишнє середовище
pesticide пестицид
waste відходи
infertile безплідний
car exhaust вихлопні гази автомобілів
soil contamination забруднення ґрунту
sewage стічні води
chemical fertilizers хімічні добрива
befoul забруднювати
acid rainfall кислотні опади
dust particles частинки пилу
Read and translate the text:
Nowadays the quality of life became more than a phrase; environmental and pollution became everyday words; and ecology became almost a religion to some of the people.
Progress in environmental problems is impossible without a clear understanding how the economic system works in the environment.
People have come to recognize that pollution imposes direct costs on the economy. Pollution destroys health and thus reduces labour force activity and output. Pollution destroys capital (for instance, air pollution effects steel structures) and diverts (переносить) resources to undesired activities (car washes, laundry, cleaning). Pollution directly reduces our social welfare by denying us access to clean air and water.
On the other hand, controlling pollution is costly too. To clean up sewage, car exhausts, smoke stains, we have to employ scarce factors of production to build, install, and maintain antipollution equipment.
There are three main forms of pollution: air, water and land pollution.
Air pollution
Clouds of factory smoke above our cities used to be a sign of growth and prosperity. But now we know that health can be seriously harmed and property damaged by air pollution and that it costs a lot each year. Polluted air causes breathing-related diseases including bronchitis, asthma and lung cancer.
Polluted air dirties our clothing, our buildings and homes. Does this cost society money?
Burning fuel in cars and factories releases pollutants into the air. Then dust and moisture combine in the atmosphere to form acids in clouds, and eventually there is an acid rainfall or snowfall. The results are deadly. Acid rain kills fish and plants in lakes. It also builds up in the soil and damages crops.
Water pollution
Water is considered polluted when it cannot be used for intended purpose, such as drinking, recreation, farming or manufacturing. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers used by farmers and home owners pollute streams, rivers, and ground water when they are transported by rain water.
Industries use enormous amounts of water in manufacturing processes. The waste-water may contain metallic solids, oils, acids, organic solids or a variety of other pollutants. Some factories discharge heated water back into rivers; this is called thermal pollution.
Land pollution
Modern technology produces massive amounts of wastes. Unlike ordinary household and commercial garbage, industrial wastes are often toxic (poisonous). Deposited wastes contaminate land, air and ground waters in the immediate area and threaten the health and well-being of those who live nearby.
The nuclear weapons plants are an environmental nightmare (кошмар). Underground tanks have been leaking radioactive plutonium. The cost of cleaning up the mess has been estimated as an enormous sum. Unfortunately, even if the governments could afford the cost of the cleanup, some areas would have to be permanently removed from public use because no one really knows how to clean them up.