Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category.
This Fragile Planet
The word environment means simply what is around us. Some people live in a town environment; for others, their environment is the countryside. But the air we breathe, the soil on which we stand and walk, the water we drink are all part of the environment.
Nowadays people understand how important it is to solve the environmental problems that endanger people’s lives. The most serious environmental problems are:
pollution in its many forms \(water pollution, air pollution, nuclear pollution\);
noise from cars, buses, planes, etc.;
destruction of wildlife and the beauty of the countryside;
shortage of natural resources \(metals, different kinds of fuel\);
the growth of population.
There is no ocean or sea which is not used as a dump. The Pacific Ocean, especially, has suffered from nuclear pollution because the French Government tests nuclear weapons there. Many seas are used for dumping industrial and nuclear waste. Britain alone dumps 250,000 tons of industrial waste straight into the North Sea. This poisons and kills fish and sea animals. “Nuclear-poisoned” fish can be eaten by people.
Many rivers and lakes are poisoned too. Fish and reptiles can’t live in them. There is not enough oxygen in the water. In such places all the birds leave their habitats and many plants die. If people drink this water they can die too. It happens so because factories and plants produce a lot of waste and pour it into rivers. So they poison the water. Factories use clean water. After the water is used it can become poison which goes back into rivers and seas.

• Группы
  • False
  • True
• Варианты
  • Factories use clean water but then it turns into poison.
  • Today natural resources are endless.
  • There’s too much oxygen in the seas.
  • Oceans and seas are mainly clean nowadays.
  • People never eat ‘nuclear-poisoned’ fish.
  • Environment is everything we can see around us every day.