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their harmful effects on the environment – the pollution of air from choking factory chimneys and the pollution
of water because of industrial wastes.
3. Among the other serious problems which our planet is facing are: the increasing consumption of energy
and water, the pollution of air by car exhausts, the increasing hole in the atmospheric ozone layer, the rivers that
are poisoned by industrial and agricultural chemicals, the forests that are felled and vast forest territories that
are devastated by fire and acid rains. Besides, armed conflicts and local wars add to the critical situation on the
planet.
4. The Earth is just a huge spaceship and mankind is its crew. Can quarrels and killings among the crew be
permitted? What will then happen to the spaceship? What will happen to mankind? If we realize the coming
danger, we’ll see that we should find solutions to all the problems to survive.
5. What should be done to change the situation for the better?
• We must change people’s attitude towards the environment.
• We should stop the pollution of air and water.
• We must save more energy and water and try to use other sources of energy (solar and tidal energy, the
energy of the wind, subterranean hot waters, etc).
• We must protect the ozone layer from harmful industrial products.
• We should prevent animals from extinction.
These and many other steps should be taken already now to make our planet a safer and better place to live
in. We, human beings, must act.
V. Прочитайте пятый абзац текста и ответьте письменно на следующий вопрос:
What must human beings do to make our planet better place to live in?
ВАРИАНТ IV
I. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на различные зна-
чения глаголов should и would.
1. Where an area of copper is situated above an area of zinc, for example, the zinc would be subject to cor-
rosion damage.
2. There is no lift in the building, since this would have interfered with the sensitive magnetic fields of the
centre’s trial facilities.
3. You should acquire certain skill before beginning the work you are so interested in.
II. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, принимая во внимание, что инфини-
тивные и причастные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям.
1. The plant being built in our district will produce radio sets.
2. The use of this device permits more complex experiments to be carried out.
3. This laboratory appears to be working out new possible applications of a laser.
4. Being built of coloured stone and plastics, the cinema will look fine.
5. Unless made some valuable remarks the motor must not be tested on highway.
III. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на различные
значения выделенных слов.
1. Such as aluminium it is preferable to steel for certain parts of electric machinery.
2. Not many years have passed since man began to use a modem which enables computers to exchange
data.
3. A fax machine allows both transmitting and receiving copies of documents rapidly.
