Контрольная работа 1. Биболетова М.З. 11 класс

My first impression of the city was more negative than positive. The air was (1) _________________________ and it was difficult to breathe. In

(2) __________ to the heavy traffic there were several factories there. Obviously, the air-cleaning equipment they used was (3) ________ or did not work at all.

When I asked my local friend why the people didn’t insist on closing the factories, he said people had different opinions about the point. Closing the factories was a very (4) ________ issue actually. The gas emissions the factories were (5) ________ for had a very negative effect on the environment. But at the same time, the factories provided jobs for a lot of people in the city. The solution was in new technologies that would make the manufacturing process (6) ________ to the environment.

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Alice: Hi! Sorry, I’m really late.

Chris: It’s OK. I (1) _____ the Internet anyway. Sit down for a while.

Alice: I wish I (2) __ so much to get here. Is what you are reading really so interesting?

Chris: I (3) ___ across information about new disposable coffee cups.

Alice: What? Disposable coffee cups? What can be new about them?

Chris: You (4) ___ how much trash there is in our park, haven’t you? It’s also on the sides of the roads…

Alice: Yes. So what? Some people have a most irritating habit of

(5) ___ their cups and packaging right on the ground. It’s disgusting but you can do nothing about it, can you?

Chris: That’s right. We can’t easily change adult people’s behavior if they (6) ___ at an early age. But there’s something we are still able to change. Look at this picture. There are two coffee cups here. They look pretty much the same. But one is a traditional disposable cup and the other (7)___ with the addition of plant-based compostable plastic.

Alice: And what makes it so remarkable?

Chris: It (8) ___ a traditional coffee cup from 5 to 50 years to break down and to disappear. The new cup (9) ___ down in roughly 100 days.

Alice: Wow. Considering that billions of disposable cups (10) ___ annually, it sounds impressive. If we switch to the new cups, the mountains of trash (11) ___ from our landscapes.

Chris: Yes, but that’s not the end of the story.

Alice: No? What else is there?

Chris: There are seeds of different plants in the caps.

Alice: Seeds? Are you saying that if I drop those new cups all over a lawn, a wood (12) ___ there?

Chris: Exactly.

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