Exercises & Essay
Exercises & Essay
Exercises & Essay
POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Pollution is anything that makes our environment dirty. It render our land, water and air harmful
for the living being. It has increased over the course of human progress, especially during the past
century.
The major causes of pollution in today’s world are industries, burning of fossil fuels, garbage,
sewage, smoke etc. In essence, in all forms it threatens the life over this planet earth.
The pollution today is entirely man made. Many things that mankind has created or invented during
the past century, are the actual causes of increase in global warming. For example, the pesticides,
chemicals, poisonous substances to kills weeds and insects etc.
This is a serious global problem. Nothing is immune from its impacts. It has spread to far and
wide. Every part of our world has started to face the grave impacts of pollution.
EXERCISES
Test 34 Education
34.1
2-5 years old : play school, nursery
5-12/13 years old : junior school
12/13-18 years old: secodary comprehensive school, grammar school
18+ years old : college, university, further
34.2
1. false
2. true
3. true
4. true
5. false
6. false
7. false
8. false
34.3.
1. resit
2.do, revising
3. pass, grades, continuosassement, mark
4. skip
5. did
34.4.
36.2.
36.3.
Fade-> lose color and strenght
Shrivel-> dry up , lose volume
Flourish-> do very well , look strong and healthy
Sprout-> poliferate, lots of new grouth
Germinate-> start to grow succesfully
Weed out-> remove what if felt to be negative
Prune back-> cut back ,trying to improve results on the long term
Wilt-> lose vitality
Reap-> gather the results of what you worked for
Wither-> cause bad feelings , gradually die
36.4
36.5
1.my anxiety
2. when you learn all night for an exam
3. my friendship with a special person
4. when I had to leve England
36.6.
38.1
1. All that carbon dioxide emissions from cars and factories are a major problem.
2. These flowers here are an endangered species,so it’s illegal to pick them .
3. A lot of wild animals have to survive in shrinking habitats.
4. Most of Patagonia is represented by pristine enviroments .
5.We have to look after finite resources.
6.If uncotroled deforestation continues, there will be no forests left ten years from
now.
7.Burning fossil fuels cause a lot of polution.
8.The sea will get higher due to global warming.
9. Increasing populations shown by demographic projections endageres economic
resources.
10. Ecological balance is very delicate.
38.2
38.3.
38.4.
1. Amphibians- creatures wich live on land and water
2. threaneted species – endagered species
Exercices:
3. 1. Human greed
1.cause
2.greed
3.consumption
4. threts
3.2.Poverty
1 population
2.developing
3.driinking
4.serious
1 issue
2 consequences
3 droughts
3.6.
1 produces
2 polluted
3 produces
4 controversial
3.7.
1 expanding
2 incorect
3 global
3.8.
1 soil
2 caused
3 transportation
3.9
1 worldwide
2 sollution
3 safe
3.10
1 explanation
2 forests
3 fuel
4 supports
5 threatned
GOING GREEN
Argue-> argument
Recycle-> recycling
Achieve-> achievement
Aware-> awareness
Pollute-> polution
Burn-> burning
Involve-> involvement
Appear-> appearance
Improve-> improvement
Distant-> distance
Consume-> Consumtion
Contribute-> contribution
Press-> pressure
Organise-> organisations
Develop-> deelopment
Produce-> production