9 Form. Attention!
Homework for Monday, 16.03.20: read and translate the text "Ecological Problems"; be ready to explain these quotations:
1. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.
2. No pollution is the only solution.
3. If you can't reuse it, refuse it!
Text 1. Ecological Problems
Ecology is a science which studies the relationship between all forms of
life on our planet and the environment.
Since ancient times Nature has served Man, giving him everything he
needs: air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, wood for building and fuel
for heating his home. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with the
environment and it seemed to them that the resources of Nature had no end or
limit.
With the industrial revolution our negative influence on Nature began to
increase. Large cities with thousands of polluting plants and factories can be
found nowadays all over the world. They pollute the air we breathe, the water
we drink, the fields where our crops are grown. Big cities suffer from smog.
Cars with their engines have become the main source of polluting in industrial
countries.
Vast forests are cut down everywhere for the needs of industries. As a
result many kinds of animals, birds, fish and plants are disappearing nowadays.
The pollution of the air and the world’s oceans and the thinning the
ozone layer are the other problems arising from men’s careless attitude to
ecology.
Active measures should be taken to save the life on our planet. There is
an international organization called Greenpeace which is doing much to preserve
the environment.
Words:
fuel [fjuəl] – паливо
increase ['ɪ͟nkri:s] – зростати
vast [va:st] – великий
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