Природа

Match the words to make phrases.

Choose the correct word. What is/are ___________________________ of London?

Choose the correct word. This town is a real _________________________.

Choose the correct word. He was the only one who ____________________________ in the fire.

Make the comparative form of the given adjective. The streets in the city are _______________ (clean) than the streets in the country.

Make the comparative form of the given adjective. Life in the country is ___________________ (quiet) than it is in the city.

Make the comparative form of the given adjective. People in the country are often _____________________ (friendly) than people in the city.

Make the comparative form of the given adjective. The buildings in the city are _________________ (tall) than in the country.

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right phrases. Frank: We hadyesterday. We discussed different . Chris: No wonder. They are the most important problems these days. Frank: I think many people understand they should . Chris: Do they really understand that? I’m not quite sure, because factories into rivers, air pollutiontoo. Frank: That’s true. And yet more and more people fight against , nuclear weapons and other things. Chris: But will they win? And when will they win these battles? Frank: Don’t lose hope. Let’s hope for the best.

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category. This Fragile Planet When the Americans decided to clean up the Statue of Liberty in 1986, the first thing they had to do was to make a hole in her nose and take away the acid rain that had collected inside. The polluted air of New York had mixed with the rain and damaged the Statue badly. And you certainly know that most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. More and more often people are told not to spend too much time in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. Normally the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer, ultraviolet radiation can get to the earth. Many scientists think that these holes are the result of air pollution. Nuclear power stations can go wrong and cause nuclear pollution. This happened in Windscale in Britain, in Three Mile Island in the USA and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Nuclear pollution cannot be seen but its effects can be terrible. To make the air clean again we need good filters at nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses. Both clean air and clean water are necessary for our health. If people want to survive they must solve these problems quickly. Man is beginning to understand that his environment is not just his own town or country, but the whole earth. That’s why people all over the world think and speak so much about ecology.