A. RENEWABLE B. EXPENSIVE C. REUSABLE D. COUNTRYSIDE C. READING (8...

12. A. renewable B. expensive C. reusable D. countryside

C. Reading (8*2pts = 16pts): Choose the best answer

Modern cities all over the world face the same problems. One of them is poor housing. Peopleoften live in old houses (13) …….. huts that don't have electricity or sanitation. As city population growsgovernments don't have the money to build modern apartment buildings.Cars and industries are (14) …….. city air and rivers more and more. Waste that people throwaway is burned or ends up in landfills. All of this makes modern cities an unhealthy place to live in.Especially (15) …….. morning and evening rush hours cities become packed with (16) ……….. . Dailytraffic jams make it impossible for people to get to work in time. City authorities are spending more and more money (17) ………. public transportation and aretalking other steps (18) ……….. traffic in cities. A few years ago the London mayor made people pay todrive their cars into the city Centre. Cities of today face many (19) ………. problems. Crime, alcoholism and drug addiction isespecially high in cities. Many young people are unemployed. Larger multiethnic cities face conflictsbetween groups with different cultural backgrounds. Blacks and whites in the USA and South Africa hada violent history in the 20th century. Even though residents of cities have a higher standard of living thereremain many poor people. Government organizations work hard to (20) ………... poverty. They try togive such people better education and jobs.