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III. Comprehension check

3.1. Answer the questions:

1. What is the reason of man’s interference in nature?

2. What supercities do you know?

3. What does the term «urban climate» mean?

4. Is the increase in traffic another serious ecological problem?

5. Does the deforestation upset the oxygen balance?

6. What are results of the deforestation ?

7. Why are holes in the ozone layer dangerous for people’s health?

8. How does the green house effect work?

9. What are the bad effects after the Chernobyl tragedy?

10. What measures are being taken to create a system of ecological security?

11. What project are the USA and Russia carrying out?

12. Why it is necessary to turn our economy in eco-economy?

13. What country is the eco-economy leader?

14. Why do people pollute the environment?

15. What do you do to protect the nature?

3.2. Decide whether these statements are true, false or information is not available:

1. With the development of civilization man’s interference in nature began to decrease.

2. Large cities with thousands of smoky industrial enterprises disappear all over the world today.

3. Every year world industry pollutes the atmosphere with about 1000 million tons of dust and other harmful substances.

4. The acid rains is one of the serious problem in Russia.

5. Toxic gases in the atmosphere in critical concentration could change the world’s climate.

6. The most horrible ecological disaster befell Ukraine and its people after explosion at the atomic power-station in Japan in 2011.

7. About 160 countries – members of the UNO – have set up environmental protection agencies.

8. Russia is not co-operating in the field of environmental protection with the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland and other countries.

9. Russia and the United States are carrying out joint projects to destroy the environmental systems of some regions.

10. Building an eco-economy means eliminating and replacing old industries, restructuring existing ones, and creating new ones

11. Besides Denmark there are other countries which have built the eco-economy.

12. If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

3.3. Arrange the sentences according to the order in the text:

1. Russia is co-operating in the field of environmental protection with the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland and other countries.

2. The pollution of air and the world’s ocean, destruction of the ozone layer is the result of man’s careless interaction with nature, a sign of the ecological crises.

3. The most horrible ecological disaster befell Ukraine and its people after the Chernobyl tragedy in April 1986.

4. Nowadays the heat cannot go into space.

5. About 160 countries – members of the UNO – have set up environmental protection agencies.

6. Toxic gases in the atmosphere in critical concentration could change the world’s climate.

7. As a result some rare species of animals, birds, fish and plants disappear forever, a number of rivers and lakes dry up.

8. The byproducts of their activity pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we grow grain and vegetables on.

9. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited.

10. It is known that Denmark is the eco-economy leader.

11. It is eco-economy that we need to save our planet.

12. It is necessary to develop an international program to study the data on land , forest, atmospheric and oceanic resources.

13. Vast forests are cut and burn in fire.

14. But these are only the initial steps and they must be carried onward to protect nature, to save life on the planet not only at the present but also for the future generations.

15. Denmark is still not close to balancing carbon emission, but it is moving in that direction.