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Environmental Issues: Exercises & Solutions

Things like climate change, polluted air, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and an increase in poverty prove that the way we use things is ineffective. International Car Free Day is celebrated worldwide by over 100 million people in about 1,500 cities where people leave their cars at home and cities close off roads to cars to help reduce global warming and air pollution. There are small things individuals can do to help the environment like recycling newspapers, planting trees, and picking up garbage from rivers to promote cleaner habitats.

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Environmental Issues: Exercises & Solutions

Things like climate change, polluted air, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and an increase in poverty prove that the way we use things is ineffective. International Car Free Day is celebrated worldwide by over 100 million people in about 1,500 cities where people leave their cars at home and cities close off roads to cars to help reduce global warming and air pollution. There are small things individuals can do to help the environment like recycling newspapers, planting trees, and picking up garbage from rivers to promote cleaner habitats.

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Environmental problems V-I

1. Complete the text with the verbs in the correct form. Thing like climate change, polluted air, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and an increase in poverty prove that the way we use things______________ (to be) ineffective. Imagine this. One day you ______________ (to come) out from your house and all you see is big puffs of black smoke and no trees! All you ______________ (to hear) is cars and no birds! All you smell is petrol and no flowers! What kind of life is that? All we _____________ (to need) to do to reduce the problem is simply to be less wasteful.
2. Read the sentences and circle the correct item.

Environmental problems V-II


1. Complete the text with the verbs in the correct form. INTERNATIONAL CAR FREE DAY 22 September ________________ (to be) a day when humans might damage the ozone layer less than on other days. Why? It is international car free day. It ____________________ (to celebrate) worldwide by over 100 million people in about 1,500 cities. People _________________ (to leave) their cars at home. Thats how car drivers can help reduce global warming and perhaps get some exercise instead. Many cities _________________ (to close) off all the roads to cars. 2 Read the sentences and circle the correct item. Clean fresh air is greatly important (for, of) our life. Trees save our air. But lots of trees are cut (every, everyone) day. If we all recycled (our, your) newspapers, we could save 500,000 trees every week! There are ways you can do to help our Earth. Planting a tree is an effective way to fight the greenhouse effect. And its (easier, easiest) than you think. 3. Underline the correct item. It`s (hotter, hottest) here than in Kiev. The weather is much (worse, worst) than yesterday. In autumn the weather is (cooler, coldest) than in summer. In winter the weather is (colder, coldest) than in autumn.

Rivers provide (some, something) of our most beautiful and most endangered natural habitats. Unfortunately, rivers face pollution from many sources: farming, industry and (even, oven) tourism. It is important to protect rivers from pollution. (in, on) order to save them for ourselves and future generations. You can pick up garbage from river banks to promote a cleaner (healthier, healthiest) environment.
3. Underline the correct item.

It`s (colder, coldest) here than in Kiev. The weather is much (better, best) than yesterday. In spring the weather is (warmer, warmest) than in winter. In summer the weather is (hotter, hottest) than in spring.

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