Which places of are polluted?

The best basketball player in the world.

If you haven’t heard of Lauren Jackson, you can be (1) __________ FORGIVE

But she is quite (2) ________ the most talented basketball player in POSSIBLE

the world. In 1998, at the age of 17, she became the top (3) _______ SCORE

in Australia and helped her team to win the (4) _______. Her coach, CHAMPION

Tom Maher, says she is one of the most (5)________players he has ATHLETE

ever seen. More impressive than her physical (6)_______, however, ABLE

is her mental approach. She is, says Maher, a fantastic (7) ________ LEARN

and a great team person. The Australian team is (8)________ based TOTAL

around her and it is only a matter of time before she is (9)________ FAME

internationally. Her physical (10) _________ is not complete yet, so DEVELOP

her potential is still not (11)___________ realized. With a few more FULL

years of (12)__________ she will become one of the all-time greats. GROW

2) Мы не получаем от неё писем в течение нескольких месяцев.

3) Завтра отец придёт поздно. Мы уберём квартиру и будем пить чай, когда он придёт.

4) Как долго ты меня ждёшь?

5) Вчера я встретил друга, которого я не видел долгое время.

6) Она собирается прочитать письмо, которое она только что получила.

7) Когда ты видел его в последний раз?

8) Не разговаривай с ним: он очень занят, он делает очень важную работу.

9) Он боялся, что что-то случится.

10) Он смотрит телевизор с 6 часов.

11) Что ты будешь делать завтра в 8 часов?

12) Я сделаю свою домашнюю работу завтра к 6 часам.

13) Мы ещё не завтракали.

14) Если я не помогу ему, он не напишет завтра тест.

15) - Ты когда-нибудь был в Париже?

- Я поеду в Париж, как только решу эту проблему.

a) do not see b) have not seen c) did not seen


2) I've been to Australia, but I ___ to New Zealand.
a) haven't been b) didn't go c) didn't been

3) Andew was late for school yesterday. When he got to the classroom, the lesson.
a) started b) has started c) had started


4) "How long has Sarah been living in Germany?' ____ five years.
a) Since b) For c) Ago d) before

ACID RAINS
Every year more and more plants and animals disappear never to be seen
again. Strangely, it is the most intelligent but most thoughtless animal that is
causing most of the problems — man. Nature is very carefully balanced and if
this balance is disturbed, animals can disappear alarmingly fast. Every day,
thousands of species of animals draw closer to extinction. There are countless
number of species which may become extinct before they are even discovered.
In many lakes the fish are dying. Fishermen are worried because every year there
are fewer fish and some lakes have no fish at all. Scientists are beginning to get
worried too. What is killing the fish?
The problem is acid rain. Acid rain is a kind of air pollution. It is caused by
factories that burn coal or oil or gas. These factories send smoke high into the
air. The wind often carries the smoke far from the factories. Some of the
harmful substances in the smoke may come down with the rain hundreds of
miles away.
The rain in many places isn't natural and clean any more. It's full of acid
chemicals. When it falls in lakes, it changes them too. The lakes become more
acidic. Acid water is like vinegar or lemon juice. It hurts when it gets in your
eyes. It also kills the plants and animals that usually live in lake water. That is
why the fish are dying in lakes.
But dead fish may be just the beginning of the problem. Scientists are finding
other effects of acid rain. In some large areas trees are dying. Not just one tree
here and there, but whole forests. At first scientists couldn't understand why.
There were no bugs or diseases in these trees. The weather was not dry. But
now they think that the rain was the cause. Acid rain is making the earth more
acidic in these areas. Some kinds of trees cannot live in the soil that is very
acidic.
Now scientists are also beginning to study the effects of acid rain on larger
animals. For example, they believe that some deer in Poland are less healthy
because of acid rain. If deer are hurt by the rain, what about people? This is the
question many people are beginning to ask. No one knows the answer yet. But
it is an important question for us all.

Вопросы к тексту:
1. This passage is about
(A) fishing.
(B) acid rain.
(C) air pollution.
(D) destructive human activity.
2. Every year thousands of species of animals
(A) are hunted for their meat and skins.
(B) migrate to other places.
(C) starve to death.
(D) die out.
3. Acid rain is caused by
(A) natural gas.
(B) the ozone layer depletion.
(C) acidic lake water.
(D) emissions of industrial enterprises.
4. Which of the following is true?
(A) Dead fish in lakes is the only problem caused by acid rains.
(B) Scientists are sure that acid rains are not harmful for mankind.
(C) If we don't make an attempt to stop acid rains we may never see
some animals again.
(D) There's no reason to worry about several trees that died of some
unknown disease.
5. What was not mentioned in the text?
(A) Acid rain is capable of dissolving some rocks and stones.
(B) Fish are unable to live in the water containing acidic chemicals.
(C) Coal, oil or gas form dangerous combinations after being burnt.
(D) Scientists reckon that if some larger animals can be affected by acid rains,
people may be in great danger.
6. Factory smoke
(A) stays over the factories.
(B) is usually clean now.
(C) turns into air.
(D) can travel hundreds of miles.
7. Scientists think acid rain
(A) is killing people.
(B) helps kill bugs.
(C) fertilizes the soil.
(D) is killing trees.

the world we live in.
In this world around us, there are two things that do not belong to any one country: air and ocean water. In both the air and the water, there is much pollution. People are concerned about the air and the water used by everyone, and they are also concerned about the future of the Earth.
One of the most important pollution problems is in the oceans. Many ships sail in the ocean water — fishing ships, some ships carrying people, some carrying oil. If a ship loses some of the oil in the water, or trash from the ships is put into the ocean, the water becomes dirty. Many birds and fish die because of the polluted water. Many fish are dying in the sea, others are getting contaminated. Fishermen catch contaminated fish which may be sold in markets and people may get sick from eating them. Fish may also move to another part of the ocean. Lakes and rivers are getting polluted, too. Some beaches are considered dangerous for swimming.
The second important problem is air pollution. Cars and factories pollute the air we use. It also destroys the ozone layer which protects the Earth from the dangerous light of the Sun.
Another problem is that our forests are dying from acid rain. This, in turn, affects the balance of nature.
If we want our children to live in the same world we live in, or in a better and healthier world, we must learn to protect the water, the air and the earth from pollution



ответить на вопросы на английском языке
1)Why are people concerned about air and water?
2)What are the consequences of water pollution?
3)

exactly where to find thousands of streets in London. You could find it on the bookshelves of the most London homes and in just every travel agency in the city. It lists every street in London and its carefully drawn maps show parks, gardens, railway lines, canals and just about anything else that can be put onto a piece of paper. So where did it come from? Phyllis Pearsall was a remarkable woman. She was born in Britain in 1906. She stayed there until she left school, and then travelled around France. She earned money by painting people's pictures and writing for a newspaper in Paris.
In the 1930s she returned to London, where she worked for her father's company, making maps of the world. She thought that there was a need for new street maps of London, after in 1935 she got lost while using a 20-year-old street map. So she started working on a book of maps. She walked along every street in the capital and wrote down the name, the important buildings and even the house numbers. Working eighteen-hour days she walked a total of 3,000 miles, while compiling her book. She kept the information about the streets on cards in small boxes.
One day a box with cards of all the streets beginning with "T" fell out of her window. She found most of the cards, but some cards landed on top of a bus and she never saw them again. When she sent the cards to the printer, someone asked her, "Why isn't Trafalgar Square in your book?" It was because she had lost the card. Phyllis Pearsall called her book A to Z. The first A to Z was in the shops in 1936 and sold very well. Now it is the most popular book of London street maps. It shows every street in London, important buildings, museums, theatres, schools, parks, train and underground stations. Later Phyllis Pearsall painted pictures of many of the city's famous buildings. In the same year, she formed the Geographers' Map Company which began publishing street maps and atlases of towns and cities and road maps of the whole country.
Today there are more than 130 people working for the Company. It publishes 359 titles including maps and atlases in both black and white and full colour. Computers were introduced into the drawing process in 1991. In 1996 the Company produced its first electronic street map of London on CD which contained over 90,000 streets, stations and different places of interest. 2005 saw the start of the next generation of A-Z maps, this time for mobile phones.
Phyllis Pearsall wrote about the history of the company in her book From Bedsitter to Household Name. She died in August 1996 at the age of 89.
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public attention to the problem of ecology?
2.What ecological problems that humanity faces nowadays in your opinion arc
most urgent?
3.Why are scientists so much concerned about the greenhouse effect and the process of global warming?

4. Do you think global warming is caused by human activities? Which of them?

5.5Can you say that the climate in the place where you live is changing? How? Do you find these changes for the better or for the worse? Can you give examples of climate changes in other places of the planet?

6. Do you think the humankind can solve the world's ecological problems? If so, in what way?