I. Find the word with the same or similar meaning.
1. to throw away
b) to get rid of
2. rubbish
a) trash
3. to protect
c) to save
4. vital (problems)
b) crucial
5. to disappear
a) to die out
II.
1. You shouldn't use your car because it causes noise and air pollution.
2. This notice can be seen at the zoo or at the circus to protect people from danger.
3. He wants to become an ecologist himself to research and protect the environment.
4. Recently, however, our beach has become more polluted with litter left by tourists and locals.
5. Our forests are disappearing because they are cut down or burnt.
6. Your family can begin trying to save the Earth right now.
7. If you go the seaside, you'll see the pollution around you.
8. If people hadn't invented different machines and developed industry, the environmental problems wouldn't have appeared.
9. Why is litter so dangerous in the countryside?
10. When you buy packed goods, don't drop the packaging.
III.
1. If you want to be healthy, you should care about the protection of the environment.
2. If we want to protect our environment, lots of things should be changed in our life, but first of all should improve ecological education.
3. Sometimes fish die out in rivers because plants and factories throw chemical waste there.
4. People should be fined for dropping litter and rubbish collection should be made more often along our beach.
5. Very little of recycling material is actually recycled.
IV.
1. THE Nile flows to THE Mediterranean Sea.
2. There are small islands in THE Pacific Ocean.
3. THE Hymalayas are the highest mountains in -- Asia.
4. -- Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.
5. -- Glasgow is one of the biggest cities in THE United Kingdom.
6. THE Red Sea is between -- Africa and -- Asia.
7. -- Great Britain is situated in THE British Isles.
V. Choose the correct translation of the sentences.
1. If he had worked hard, he would have achieved great progress.
с) Если бы он работал тогда усердно, он добился бы больших успехов.
2. If I got this book, I would be happy.
b) Если бы у меня была эта книга, я была бы счастлива.
3. If you had gone to the theatre last week, you would have enjoyed the evening.
b) Если бы ты сходил в театр на неделе, ты получил бы удовольствие от вечера.
VI.
1. If I (knew) the result now, I would phone her immediately.
2. If I (were) you, I would stay at home.
3. If you (hadn't missed) the train, you would have arrived in time.
4. If they had known it before, they (would have taken) measures.
5. Your brother (would become) much stronger if he took cold baths regularly.
6. If he were a first-class sportsman now, he (not train) enough last year. (странное предложение) Правильнее будет:
If he had trained enough last year, he would be a first-class sportsman now.
7. If I (had written) the composition yesterday, I would be free now.
I’m glad we have a map. I’m sure we would get lost if we didn’t have one.
We can’t go on holiday this year. If we had more money, we would go skiing.
We decided to move. We would have lost a lot of money if we had sold our house.
I’m not going to get up early today. If it was Sunday, I wouldn’t have to get up.
Be quite, please! If you didn’t shout so loudly, I would understand your words better.
I’m not sure. If you gave me more information, I had been able to help you.
You didn’t call me up yesterday. If you had rung me up, I would have told you everything
I disagree with people, who think so. Books - is just one of many tools for the knowledge of being, which has no absolute advantages over other means, such as your own work, communication with intelligent people, lucid dreaming, traveling and so on. I'll just try to guess it what things some people find books dignity; then I'll tell you, what to my mind is the "best source for cognition of all aspects of life"
Books are customary to us, since recent time books have become a traditional way of leisure activities for the masses of people. Almost all the people pay their taxes, and hence they can use public libraries, so bookish education is affordable.
Furthermore, there are variety of written thoughts directions: we can find reflections about eternity in it, and at the same time there are encountered detective stories and cheap novels.That is to say, on the grounds of moral and intellectual development, one can find any answer to his question.
But the problem consists, that not everyone have the adequate development of creative thinking. That is, not everyone can grasp the whole text of the book in its notional scope; moreover, frequently it's assimilated not what was written in the book, but what was presented by the reader, who, perhaps, can by not quite sober-minded.Thereby it was generated entire sections of ugly information,that infest the information field and which can't entail nothing good.
In my view, the best method of cognizing life - communication with intelligent, skilled, wise people, let us call them "Elders". Elders can explain everything distinctly, and, noticing that if the information wasn't internalized right, they will rush to explain it again.Their knowledge are always based on practice and never are the result of sick imagination.
Well as a good method of knowledge as cognition yourself in persistent labor. Life starts with one person, thus, it’s reasonable to begin life’s knowledge with the cognition of one person. Labor is a check on durability and viciousness, finding strengths and weaknesses. In sum, with communication with the elders, these two methods are more than replace reading any books.
Of course, books are good, but only as an addition to real activity. Life itself can be learned only in the process of yourself exploration.