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NATURE PROTECTION

About two hundred years ago man lived in greater harmony with his environment because industry was not much developed. Today the situation is quite different, the contradictions between man and nature are dramatic. People all over the world are worried about what is happening to the environment. Newspapers, magazines write about water pollution, air pollution and land pollution.

Now many parts of the world are crowded. Where many people live together, litter is a problem. People don’t always put garbage into a garbage can. It is easier to throw away a piece of paper than to find a garbage can for it. But litter is ugly. It makes the city look dirty and spoils the view. Litter is a health problem too. Food, garbage bring animals, which sometimes carry disease.

Much of our waste, waste from factories, chemical industry and heavy industry are very dangerous. Much of this dangerous waste goes into the air and is carried by winds over great distances. People don’t get enough oxygen in big cities. They suffer from smog. You can hardly breathe the air any more in our cities. And think of noise. Nowadays most city centres are simply too noisy to live in. We live with a motor car but we must become its master and not its slave.

The Earth is our home. We must take care of it for ourselves and for the next generations. This means keeping our environment clean. The importance of this task is pointed out by ecologists, the scientists who want to control this problem. Each of us must do everything possible to keep the land, air and water clean.

There are many places in our planet that need immediate help. For example Lake Baikal and its shores have been declared a specially protected zone of our country. There is a hope that one of the most beautiful and the deepest lakes of the world will never die.

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Why is it difficult to breathe in big cities?

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1. These components can usually be put together to build a computer.

2. We know the programmer to have come.

3. The device is known to be connected with the cables.

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1. We need the video cardcontaining this information.

2. Nowadays we pay bills prepared by computers.

3. The keyboard being repaired, they continued their work.

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1. If he can, he will bring the microphones.

2. If you bought this computer, it would be great.

3. If I had seen him yesterday, I would have asked him about the printer.

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COMPUTERS: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Computer is known to have been a very useful invention of the ХХcentury. Computers make our everyday lives easier. One of the main advantages of computers seems to save time. Stored information can be easily found at the touch of a button, people doing their work much faster than they could in the past. We know computers to save a lot of storage space. One computer disc, for instance, can hold the same amount of information as several books.

Computers can be used for education and fun. Children can get basic computer skills through programs that allow them to learn, draw, paint and play. In today’s technological world, this knowledge can only help them in the future. However, computers turned out to have various negative aspects. Many jobs have been lost as computers can do a lot of tasks more efficiently than people. This has led to high unemployment rate in many countries. Moreover, endless hours in front of a computer screen can cause health problems: eye fatigue and headaches.

There are people who claim that computers are unnecessary and make our lives more complicated. They think that we have become too dependent on computers.

Computers seem to be a useful contribution to our fast-moving world. If there had been no computers a lot of highly technological achievements would have been impossible. Computers having changed our lives for better, there is no reason why we should not make them work to our advantage. However, it must be remembered that they are here to serve us - not to replace us.

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ВАРИАНТ II

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1. Much of dangerous waste goes into the air and is carried by winds over great distances.

2. Many public organizations and unofficial environmental movements have been established recently.

3. Efforts are being made to reduce pollution from automobile engines.

4. During combustion processes of that substance air pollutants were emitted.

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1. It is the growth of industrialization that is changing the climate of the planet.

2. Every ten minutes one kind of animal, plant or insect dies out forever.

3. Most of water bacteria are common ones and they are generally not harmful.

4. To protect nature people should change their attitude to it.

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1. The range of environmental problems is wide.

2. Using solar energy has many environmental and economic benefits.

3. Do all countries have their own legal drinking water standards?

4. Many large cities have to take measures to decrease the level of urban noise.

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1. Industrial enterprises pollute the air we breathe.

2. The fastest spreading disaster the civilization has is the poisoning of the world’s land, air and water.

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1. To design the car with low fuel consumption was the purpose of that plant.

2. The main goal of the “Greenpeace” public commission is to combine the people’s efforts for nature protection.

3. To protect environment several laws were passed in our country.

4. It is practically impossible to protect big cities from pollution.

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