Environmental protection Learn these words and word combinations
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Environmental protection 1. Learn these words and word combinations. acid rains – кислотные дожди air pollution – загрязнение воздуха atomic power station – атомная электростанция billboard (n.) – доска для объявлений chemicals – химикалии deny (v.) – отвергать, отрицать endanger (v.) - подвергать опасности environment (n.) – окружающая среда exhaust (v.) – исчерпывать, истощать fertilizer (n.) – удобрение great publicity - большая огласка highway (n.) – автострада, автомагистраль industrial pollution – загрязнение промышленными отходами natural resources – природные ресурсы, полезные ископаемые oil waters - воды, загрязненные нефтью pipeline (n.) - трубопровод pollution control – меры по охране окружающей среды rapid industrial development – быстрое промышленное развитие spaceship (n.) - космический корабль species (pl без изм) – род, порода, вид tin can - консервные банка threaten (v.) - угрожать trash (n.) - мусор wildlife reservation - заповедник дикой природы 2. Read and translate the text. ТЕХТ 8 Environmental protection Scientific and technological progress of the twenty-first century resulted in widespread mechanization, automated lines computerized management, spaceships, atomic power stations, pipelines, new roads and highways. But it cannot be denied that the price for rapid industrial development is very high: natural resources are exhausted, the ecological balance of the planet is disturbed; some species of flora and fauna disappear; city and industry waters, chemicals and fertilizers are endangering lakes, rivers and ponds. Big cities have a problem with air pollution. In recent years the pollution problems have received great publicity. Environmental activities stress that the problem is caused by industrial pollution and the automobile. Long-established environmental groups warn that acid rains threaten many forests. The media's begun to campaign against the ugliness of billboards, tin cans and trash. The protection of natural resources and wildlife is becoming a political program in every country. Numerous antipollution acts passed in different countries led to considerable improvements in environment. In many countries purifying systems for treatment of industrial waters have been installed, measures have been taken to protect rivers and seas from oil waters. Wildlife reservation models of undisturbed nature are being developed in some parts of the world. But the environmental problems have grown beyond the concern of a single country. Their solution requires the cooperation of all nations. 3. Follow–up questions. 1. What are the advantages of industrial development? 2. What are disadvantages of industrial development? 3. What do Environmental activists do? 4. What has been done to improve the environment in many countries? 5. Why do the environmental problems require the cooperation of all nations? 4. Find synonyms among the following words. Protect, trash, litter, defense, impoverish, exhaust, controversy, discussion, combat, fight, tillage, treatment. 5. Find antonyms among the following words. Adoption, reduce, unbalanced, steep, management, unnoticed, mismanagement, non-adoption, gentle, balanced, reversible, increase, disturbed, noticed, irreversible, disappear, undisturbed, decomposition, appear, composition. 7. Find in the text English equivalents for these words and word combinations Научный и технический прогресс; проблемы загрязнения; подвергать опасности; кислотные дожди; заповедник дикой природы; сотрудничество всех государств; быстрое промышленное развитие; обработка промышленных вод; консервные банки; компания против уродства досок для объявлений; очистительные системы. 8. Translate into English. 1. Научный и технический прогресс в 21 веке привели к широко распространѐнной механизации. 2. Решение этой проблемы требует сотрудничества всех государств. 3. Полезные ископаемые истощаются. 4. Проблемы загрязнения получили большую огласку. 5. Химикаты и удобрения подвергают опасности озѐра, реки. 6. Во многих странах установлены очистительные системы для обработки промышленных вод. |