World scientists urge co2 action

AP Business Writer

May11, 2005

The science academies of the world’s leading nations have urged their governments to take prompt action to combat possible climate change.

They have agreed that all countries could and should take cost-effective action to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The statement was released on Wednesday by the academies of the G8 nations, including the UK’s Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences.

It was signed by scientists from 11 countries, including China and India.

The academies are making their voices heard ahead of July’s G8 meeting in Scotland, where the British Prime Minister has promised to put climate change high on the agenda.

Exercise 4. a) Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations from the article:

climate change, the world’s leading nations, to take prompt action, to take cost-effective action, to cut carbon dioxide emissions, to make the voices heard ahead, to put smth high on the agenda

b) Give the English equivalents to the following words and word combinations from the article:

заявление, быть опубликованным, научная академия, углекислый газ, возможные изменения климата, сократить выбросы, экономичные меры, быть подписанным кем-то, поставить в повестку дня

Exercise 5. Match the phrases and their determinations taken from the British dictionary:

1. agenda	a) the group of people who govern a country or state:
2. to combat	b) be one of the most important problems to deal with
3. carbon dioxide	c) a list of problems or subjects that a government, organization etc is planning to deal with:
4. government	d) a gas or other substance that is sent into the air:
5. emission	e) bringing the best possible profits or advantages for the lowest possible costs
6. cost-effective	f) to try to stop something bad from happening or getting worse - used especially in news reports
7. to be high on the agenda(to be top of the agenda)	g) the gas produced when animals breathe out, when carbon is burned in air, or when animal or vegetable substances decay

Exercise 6. Answer the questions to the article:

1. What have the scientists of the world urged their governments to do?

2. What have they agreed in?

3. When was the statement released?

4. Who signed this statement?

5. What has the British Prime Minister promised?

6. What have you read about this problem?

7. What is your opinion about the importance of the problem covered in this article?

Exercise 7. Make the summary of the information from this article. Speak about the measures taken in your country (region).

TEXT 2

Exercise 1. a) Look at the headline of the article below and say what you think it is going to be about.

b) Read the words and translate them without a dictionary, pay attention to what part of speech they belong to:

energy, economy, economically, to intensify, intensity, intensive, complex, a complex, technical, technically, potential, to realize, realization, strategy, reorganization, a factor, a resource, technology, technological, structure, structural, to process, a process, to compensate, compensation, to serve, service, manufacture, to manufacture, to organize, organization, organizational, equivalent, to construct, construction, to concentrate, concentration, municipal, communal, transport, agriculture, a sector, to realize, realization, an alternative, alternative, policy, a company

Exercise 2. Read and memorize the words from the article:

Justify, v	подтверждать, доказывать
Implement, v	снабжать, обеспечивать
Achieve, v	достигать
Reduction, n	сокращение, уменьшение, снижение
Reduce, v	сокращать, уменьшать, снижать
owing to	из-за, вследствие, благодаря, по причине
Measure, n	мера, мероприятие
Estimation, n	приблизительная оценка, приблизительный подсчет
Estimate, v	оценивать
Execute, v	осуществлять, выполнять, делать; реализовать
Contribution, n	вклад (в науку и т. п.) ; сотрудничество
Consumption, n	потребление
Inevitable, adj	неизбежный, неминуемый, неотвратимый
Suppose, v	допускать, думать, полагать, предполагать
Recognize, v	официально, формально признавать
at the expenses	за чей-л. счет

Exercise 3. Read and translate the article: