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Vocabulary

diverse

разнообразный

requirements

требования

shelter

жилище

encompass

охватывать

determine

определять

curiosity

любопытство

advent

появление

embrace

охватывать

tangible thing

материальная вещь

fossil fuels

ископаемое топливо

exist

существовать

quantity

количество

time-span

отрезок времени

timber

лесоматериал

inappropriate

нецелесообразный

demand

спрос

authorities

органы власти

contend

утверждать

assess

определить, оценить

perceptions

восприятие

increase

увеличиваться

emerge

появляться

harness

использовать

defined limits

определенный предел

extract

добывать

crops

зерновые культуры

pharmaceuticals

лекарственные препараты

dyes

красители

deterioration

ухудшение состояния или качества

delivery

доставка

Vocabulary exercises

1.Which of the following statements are true/false according to the text? Correct the false sentences:

1. Resources are things that can be used to provide the means to satisfy wants — in other words, they are resources until people are able to use them.

2. In the I8th century, uranium was simply a curiosity used only in the manufacture of coloured glass.

3. Natural resources are divided into those which are non-renewable and others that can be replenished (renewable).

4. Non-renewable resources are things like coal, copper ores, and diamonds, which exist in strictly unlimited quantities.

5. Appropriate use of renewable resources can lead to their destruction, as, for example, when a fishery or forest is over-utilized and totally consumed.

6. Demands for resources are made by present-day societies are causing concern among many people, who consider that the present and future demands of industrial societies cannot be sustained for more than a century or two, and that once a resource base fails to meet a society’s needs that society will grow.

7. Resources for the past generations will, they believe, be determined by the level of knowledge of future societies.

8. Crops are plants grown for human use.

9. Over 80 crops are grown in our country, providing people with the majority of their food, and supplying fibres, rubber, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and other materials.

10. Commodities are essentially things produced for sale.

11. Commodity markets deal in raw or semi-raw materials that can be stored for considerable periods without deterioration.

12. Most trade relates to cereals and crops.

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