2 Уровень

Задание 1. Прочитайте, переведите текст и выполните задания

Environmental Problems

Environmental problems have become exceptionally acute in the country. For a long time too little attention was paid to the environment.

In effort to meet production goals the ministries stainted on measures to protect the environment from industrial pollution. As a result, about half of the water sources in the country are polluted with industrial or communal waste. In more than a hundred towns and cities with population of some fifty million, the concentration of harmful substances in the air is over ten times the admissible level.

For dozens of years the national economy focused on large projects, including giant projects in what was called the transformation of nature. Blunders were committed that caused environmental disasters.

Of the acute problems causing public concern the environment safety of nuclear and hydraulic power engineering is beginning to assume paramount importance. Public anxiety has grown particularly after the Chernobyl disaster. Another reason is the adverse effect of flatland hydropower stations on the environment.

The list of serious environmental problems could be continued.

a) Найдите в тексте выражения с прилагательным "environmental"

- проблемы окружающей среды

- экологическая катастрофа

- экологическая безопасность

b) Заполните пропуски в предложениях, используя выражения из задания a)

1. _____ have become exceptionally acute in the country.

2. _____ of nuclear and hydraulic power engineering is beginning to assume paramount importance.

3. The list of serious _____ could be continued.

4. Blunders were committed that caused _____.

c) Составьте предложения, соединив две половинки

1) Blunders of people can cause 2) Ozone layer 3) Polluting of water and air is 4) The increasing of ultraviolet 5) People must stop

a) is destroyed by aerosol sprays causes skin cancer and other disease. b) using aerosol sprays. c) dangerous for human beings. e) environment disasters. f) over ten times the admissible level.

Задание 2. Заполните пропуски предложенными словами

Earthquake and Epidemic

Medical teams, rescue teams, trapped, rubble, epidemic, casualties, toll, collapse, outbreak, earthquake

In some parts of the world the ground shakes from time to time. This is called an _____ and if it’s a bad one, the number of (dead and injured people) is sometimes large. Buildings often _____ and _____ have to search for people who are _____ under the _____. Sometimes water supplies are affected and there is an _____ of disease, called an _____. _____ are sent by the government to help the sick. The death _____ can reach hundreds or even thousands.

Задание 3. Заполните пропуски словами

Healthy, solid particles, quantities, ultraviolet, dump, combustion, wild plants, atmosphere, pollution

1. Hydrocarbons are caused by the _____ of oil and petrol and it effects the environment with carcinogen.

2. Radioactive isotopes which are caused by small _____ from nuclear waste and nuclear accidents have a carcinogenic effect on the environment as well.

3. Besides that optical effect it causes an increase of ozone in the lower _____ and the health conditions of the particular organism living in such an area.

4. In Scandinavia, which receives a high proportion of its air _____ from Britain, once productive lakes are now completely devoid of fish.

5. Emissions of dust can and should be controlled by filters which remove _____ before gases are discharged.

6. More and more often people are told not to be in direct sunlight, because _____ radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer.

7. There is no ocean or sea which is not used as a _____.

8. It may be that the medicines we need will be discovered in _____ in savannas, deserts or rainforests.

9. We need to choose cheap electricity and polluting the environment and expensive electricity but _____ life and clean environment.