Test "NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT"

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No longer existing, as an animal species.

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To process used objects so that they can be used again.

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Thick forest in the tropical part of the world.

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Making air, rivers, etc. dirty.

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Warming of the atmosphere that occurs when certain gases absorb part of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth.

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The presence in the atmosphere of large quantities of particles or gases produced by human activity; these are harmful to both animal and plant life.

Match the words with the following definitions.

Read the text and choose the correct variant.

Every year more and plants and animals disappear. In many lakes 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 rains. Acid rain is a kind of air pollution. It is caused by factories of that burn coal, or oil, or gas. These factories send smoke high into the air. The wind often carries the smoke far from factories. Some of the harmful substances in the smoke may come with the rain hundreds of miles away.

1. This text is about               [fishing, acid rains, air pollution].

2. Every year thousands of species of animals                                 [are hunted for the meat, fly away to different countries, die out].

3. Acid rains is caused by                         [natural gas, dust, smoke send by factories].

4. Factory smoke                              [stays over the factories, is usually clean now, can travel hundreds of miles].

5. Some lakes have no fish at all because                                       [people kill the fish, fish can’t live in the polluted water, the water is too salty there].

6. Scientists are                                      [sure that acid rains are not harmful, beginning to get worried, pay attention to the problem].

Use the 1^st Conditional putting the verbs in brackets in the correct forms.

1. If I    (go) out tonight, I         (go) to the cinema.

2. If we            (not/see) each other tomorrow, we          (see) each other next week.

3. They         (go) to the party if they     (be) invited.

4. She            (stay) in London if she      (get) a job.

5. If he       (come), I         (be) surprised.

6. She           (take) a taxi if it       (rain).

Choose the correct answer.

1. If the train              [is late, will be late], we           [will walk, walk].

2. She           [calls, will call] you if she           [has, will have] time.

3. What            [do we do, will we do] if the taxi              [doesn’t come, won’t come]?

4. If it           [will cost, costs] too much, I          [buy, will buy] a smaller one.

5. Will you phone me if there         [are, will be] any problems?

6. If he          [sees, will see] me here, he         [will be, is] really angry.

Make up sentences from the following words.

mustn’t/throw/old/away/you/bottles/jars/and

Make up sentences from the following words.

plastic/products/in/don’t/ containers/buy

Make up sentences from the following words.

into/take/bags/paper/shops

Make up sentences from the following words.

replace/don’t/until/out/filled/a/it/notebook/is/completely

Make up sentences from the following words.

sea/the/and/land/the/pollute/will/rubbish

Make up sentences from the following words.

animal/there/plant/many/are/species/endangered/and

Make up sentences from the following words.

happening/our/climate/to/is/something

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