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PART 9
ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Unit 1
Earth in danger
1.1 Прочтите основные понятия по теме
«Окружающая среда». Переведите их на русский
язык.
pollution – 1. the process of damaging the air, water, or land
with chemicals or other substances: the pollution of local rivers;
2. chemicals or other substances that have a harmful effect on air, water,
or land: The new agency is responsible for controlling air pollution.
♦ environmental (air, water, soil) pollution
♦ to control pollution
to pollute = to contaminate
to forecast = to make a statement about what is likely to happen, usually
relating to the weather, business, or the economy: weather forecast.
to destroy = to damage = to destruct: Half the world’s rainforests
(тропический лес) have already been destroyed.
smoke – a grey black, or white cloud produced by something that is
burning: The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
smog – polluted air that is a mixture of smoke and fog
to choke – if you choke, or if something chokes you, you can not breathe
because there is not enough air or because something is blocking your
throat.
heat – the quality of being hot, or how hot something is: He could feel the
heat of the sun on his back.
a greenhouse – a building made of glass that is used for growing plants
that need protection from the weather.
greenhouse effect – the process in which heat is unable to escape from
the atmosphere and causes the temperature of the Earth to rise. The rise in
temperature is called global warming.
to survive – 1. to stay alive despite an injury, illness, war: His doctor
says it’s a miracle that he survived.
2. to continue to exist, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation: Of
all the museum’s paintings, only one survived the fire.

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