Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов I курса всех факультетов. Часть 1. Сергееева Т.В - 90 стр.

                                     TEXT 5B

Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

       Our air, our water, and our land are all subject to abuse1 as a consequence
of industrial activity.
       Air is polluted mainly by heating systems and cars. Cities and suburbs2
contain numerous industrial enterprises, automobiles and heating systems,
polluting by emissions of harmful dust.
       The most promising way to solve the problem of clean air is to improve
tehnology to reduce emissions into the atmosphere, to improve city planning to
build factories beyond city limits and to make our cities more green: trees play
the role of biological filters.
       Unlike other natural resources water renews itself due to its constant
circulation.
       In the economy water is a raw material3 and hardly any type of product is
manufactured without it. It has been estimated that industry consumes about
85% of the water in the cities. The use of water leaves it polluted. Newspapers
report that all the large rivers in Europe and USA are completely or partially-
polluted. Already several hundred cases of ground water pollution have been
reported also. This pollution comes from a variety of sources: municipal
industrial facilities, oil spills4 and runoff5 from farmlands and construction sites.
       The most effective method of protecting the water environment is to shift
to a closed production cycle. This offers a triple advantage: saving of water
(cleaned, it can be reused), extracting valuable substances from the wastes and
ruling out harm to nature.


      Notes to the text:
1
  abuse - злоупотребление, порча, неправильное употребление
2
  suburbs – пригород, окрестность
3
  raw material – сырьё
4
  oil spill – разлив нефти (на поверхности воды)
5
  runoff – сток

Задание 2. Прочитайте слова, обратив внимание на транскрипцию.
            Переведите их.



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