Practise reading modern press. Станкова Т.Ю. - 25 стр.

      VIII. Practise writing about the theme discussed in this unit.
     Supposing you should be taking an examination. You must
speak on the Information Revolution. You have prepared cribs
(øïàðãàëêè). In one of them you have got a summary of the problems
concerning the Information Revolution. Express some ideas from
your crib in writing.




                                 UNIT 7
     I. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

technology        [tek′nΖlχ→i]       species             [′spω: ω:z]
natural           [′n ±rχl]          biodiversity        [,baωχudaω′vφ:sωti]
environment       [ωn′vaωrχnmχnt]    carbon dioxide      [kΨ:bχn daω′] ksaωd]
resources         [rω′s] :sωz]       nitrogen cycle      [′naωtrχ→χn saωkl]
ecosystem         [′ω:kχ sωstχm]     consumption         [kχn′s mp n]

     II. Revise grammar rules.
      1. Find the subject and the predicate in sentence (1) and analyse
its syntactical structure.
      2. Analyse the syntactical structure of sentence (2) [§ 1].
      3. Find the subject and its attributes in sentence (3) and analyse
its syntactical structure [§ 2].
     III. Read and translate the article into Russian.


                   The Age of Environment
      The 20th century was a time of spectacular scientific and
technological advances, the freeing of the arts by an exuberant
modernism, and the spread of democracy and human rights. It was
also a dark and savage age of world wars, genocide, and totalitarian
ideologies that came dangerously close to global domination. While
preoccupied with all this tumult, humanity also managed to decimate
the natural environment and draw down the nonrenewable resources
of the planet with reckless abandon. It accelerated the erasure of entire

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