You are given a list of 10 practical ideas. Choose those, which in your opinion can help to save the environment and explain your choice.

1. Buy fresh food that doesn’t need a lot of packing.

2. Save as much water as possible.

3. Find out more about Green organizations in your area.

4. Write letters to the government of your country about Green problems, which you are worried about.

5. Use bottles more than once.

6. Try to save paper. Also, buy and use recycled paper as often as possible.

7. Make sure that your family and friends use unleaded petrol in their cars.

8. Use public transport as often as possible.

9. Use batteries as little as possible. It takes 50 times more energy to make them than they produce.

10. Don’t leave on electric lights, TV, Hi-Fi, etc, if you are not using them.

 

Make up the plan of the text and retell it according to the plan (not less then 100 words).

· GRAMMAR FOCUS

Review test

It covers: оборот there is/are/was/were, have got, to be, степени сравнения прилагательных, неопределенные местоимения (few, a few, little, a little, some, any, many, much), времена групп Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous.

 

Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

1. I often __________ basketball.

a) play b) is playing c) has played d) played

2. My brother never _______ for us.

a) wait b) waited c) has waited d) had waited

3. I _______ it in the bookcase yesterday.

a) was finding b) found c) find d) had found

4. Last winter _____ warm.

a) is b) were c) was d) are

5. Now they _______ the street.

a) were crossing b) are crossing c) cross d) have crossed

6. I ______ when you rang me up.

a) was reading b) am reading c) read d) have read

7. He ______from the University next year.

a) will be graduating b) will graduate

c) will have graduated d) graduates

8. I ______busy next Monday.

a) am b) will be c) was d) have been

9. The picture Mona Lisa ___________ by Leonardo da Vinci.

a) painted b) was painted c) had been painted d) has been painted

10. Five fruit- trees ________ in our garden last year.

a) were planted b) was planted

c) planted d) have been planted

11. I _______ this dictionary yet.

a) don’t buy b) haven’t bought

c) didn’t buy d) hadn’t bought

12. They ________ just.

a) arrive b)have arrived c) arrived

d) will arrive

13. There were so many questions he ………..answer.

a) can’t b) may not c) couldn’t d) won’t

14. His wife ………. stay at home with their little son yesterday.

a) should b) had to c) must d) can

15. How many languages …you speak?

a) should b) can c) are able to d) ought to

16. You ……… put a raincoat on. It is raining

a) can b) could c) should d) are to

17. She …send e-mail now. She has no time.

a) must b) should c) can d) have to

18. She ……in Kiev two years ago

a) were b) will be c) was d) is

19. She ….. a lot of work to do last week.

a) has b) will have c) had d) have

20. ……….an institute in your town ten years ago.

a) There is b) There was c) There were d) There are

21. ……..some girls in the hall.

a) There are b) There is c) There were d) There was

22. Where …..the girls? Ten minutes ago they ……here.

a) are are b) are were c) were are d) is were

23.In deserts they get..... rain in all the seasons.

a) Little b) few c) a little d) a few

24. All the buses … from the bus stop.

a) leaves b)are leaving c) have left d)leave

25. Bob and Mary don't have..... children.

a) some b) every c)any d) anything

26. Yesterday I woke up, opened my eyes and remembered what I ….the day before.

a) have do b) do c) had done d) did

27. If you want to become a teacher, you ….. go to teachers training college for four years.

a) Mayb)have to c) Should d) must

28. We have to hurry. We don’t have ………….. time.

a) many b) much c) a lot d) some

29. Tom drinks … milk. – one liter a day.

a) many b) much c) a lot d) any

30. I can’t drink this tea. There is too ……… sugar in it.

a) many b) much c) a lot of d) few

31. He’s not popular. He has …… friends.

a) few b) much c) little d) a little

32. Last year my friends and I... to take part in a TV program.

а) invite b) invited с) were invited d) are invited

33. 1,000 children... every year in this city.

a) are born b)will be born c) were born d) born

34. This phenomenon... for five years and now they publish their book.

a) has been studied b) has been studying c) was being studied d) was studied

35. When we entered the wall... bright yellow.

a) was painted b) was been painted

c) was painting d) was being painted

· COMPREHENSION READING

9. Read the following text and do the tasks after the text:

The Threat to Kiribati

The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too–distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth – literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide (волна). These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. “This never happened before,” say the older citizens of Kiribati.

What is causing these mysterious high tides? The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers and polar ice-caps.

If the trend continuous, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate – they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone’s loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.

The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They don’t have the money expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.

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