Reading. Task 1. Read the text and answer the questions. WORDLIST Decompose – гнить Landfill – мусорная свалка Occur naturally – происходить естественным образом Smelting – плавка Energy-intensive - энергоемкий Mining – добыча полезных ископаемых Harms – вредить Run – работать Crush - раздавливать For good causes – для благих целей WHAT ‘CAN’ WE DO? 475 billion cans of drink are sold in the world every year. What happens to all these empty aluminium cans? Amazingly, a lot of them are recycled! It takes 100 years for an aluminium can to decompose in a landfill. So recycling makes sense.Aluminium doesn’t occur naturally. It’s made from bauxite in a process called smelting. Producing aluminium is energy-intensive. Bauxite is extracted by mining, which is expensive and creates environmental problems. Bauxite mining harms forests, which affects plants and animals, and the chemicals which are used in the process affect the health of people living there.Recycling reduces the need to mine bauxite. Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy needed to produce it by mining and smelting. In fact, making ONE can with recycled aluminium saves enough energy to run a television for three hours!Aluminium is the most common materials in modern life. It’s the cheapest material to recycle, and can be recycled indefinitely because it isn’t damaged by the process. Cans are also are the easiest things to recycle – new drinks cans can appear in the shops only six weeks after recycling!In some countries people pay extra for each can they buy. If they recycle the can or take it back to the shop, they get this money back. Many places have got special machines where cans are crushed, and you get a ticket saying how many cans you recycled so you can reclaim the money. In Sweden, where this is very successful, 92% of cans are recycled. In Britain, people sell empty cans for charity. There are several hundred places that buy cans and then recycle them. Just imagine – if every can in the UK were recycled like this, it would raise over £30 million a year for good causes!
1 What happens to most drinks cans?
They are recycled
2 What is aluminium made from?
3 What two problems about mining this does the text mention?
4 Why is recycling a better alternative to mining? Was ist
5 What three advantages are there when recycling aluminium?
6 How long is the whole recycling process?
7 What happens in some countries to encourage recycling?
8 How do we know this works well in Sweden?
9 What happens in Britain?
10 Why can you make a lot of money doing this?
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Объяснение:
London is really an old city. It has existed for two millennia. It is the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The river Thames is a jewel of the city. About 9 million people live in London. It is situated on a 1,580 square kilometers.
Лондон действительно старый город. Он существует на протяжении двух тысячелетий. Это – столица Объединенного королевства Великобритании и Северной Ирландии. Река Темза является украшением города. Около 9 миллионов людей живет в Лондоне. Он раскинулся на 1,580 квадратных километров.
The capital is a vast financial centre of the country. London is one of the largest and the busiest ports of the world. The city is divided into 32 parts32 parts..
Столица – огромный финансовый центр страны. Лондон один из наибольших и самых загруженных портов мира. Город делится на 33 части.
The City is in the centre, but it is only a small area of it. This part is the business sector of the capital. There are many offices and firms here. The Bank of England is in the City.
Сити находится в центре, но это только небольшой его участок. Эта часть – деловой сектор столицы. Здесь находится много офисов и фирм. Банк Англии расположен в Сити.
Besides, there are a lot of famous buildings and monuments. One of them is St. Paul’s Cathedral. You can see statues of outstanding British people: Wellington, Nelson and others in it. Another celebrated architectural masterpiece is the Tower of London. It was a palace, a zoo, a fortress and a prison at different times. The Tower is a museum now.
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