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III. After you have read

3.1. Answer the following questions:

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

2. What does appear all over the world today?

3. Why is the oxygen balance upset?

4. What is the result of this process?

5. What is the problem of the increase in traffic?

6. Why could toxic gases change the world’s climate?

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

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

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

10. Why must the serious measures be carried onward to protect nature?

3.2. Look through the text again and say what is true and what is false? Correct the false statements:

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 falls to earth in form of rain or snow that can create the new living organisms.

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. As many as 159 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. 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. As many as 159 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. Vast forests are cut and burn in fire.

3.4. Make up your own sentences (not taken from the text) with the following word-combinations. Pay attention to the usage of the Infinitive:

To live in harmony with environment; man’s interference in nature; the increase in traffic; to leave a dangerous planet to future generations; to be polluted with radioactive substances; to discuss problems facing eco-logically poor regions; to save life on the planet, one of history’s greatest dangers to human life.

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