WHAT ABOUT AIR POLLUTION

6/ What about air pollution ?

A. ___ Pollution is the poisoning of the land, sea and air.

B. ___ Mainly industry and transport. If you go to any city, you will see too many

factories, too many cars with not enough people in them, and not enough public transport.

C. ___ Factories and vehicles produce waste which goes into the air and rivers and

spreads all over the land. Poisons in the waste build up over the years and harm trees, plants,

animals, and people.

D. ___ Waste gases build up in the air, and dissolve into raindrops, forming a weak acid.

This "acid rain" can fall far away from the country which produced it, killing trees in forests and

fish in lakes and rivers.

E. ___ If companies clean their waste gases before releasing them into the atmosphere,

there'll be much less air pollution and no acid rain. But this can be expensive and it needs all

the world's companies to do it.

F. ___ Cars pollute the atmosphere. Walk, cycle and use public transport as much as

possible. Only use your car when you really need to, and use unleaded petrol if you can - lead is

one of the most dangerous ingredients in petrol. Join us, and help us to campaign for cleaner

air for everybody.

Question 2: Fill in the blanks with one suitable word. The first letter has been provided:

Every December millions of Christmas cards go through the post. There are pictures of

stars and snow or Christmas (1) t... . In these days it is hard to think of Christmas

(2) w... Christmas cards. Yet little over a hundred and fifty years ago there were

(3) n... at all. Here is just one story of the way in which they started.

Some boys of those days who were at boarding schools had to write a special piece of

English at Christmas (4) t... . This was sent to their (5) p... so that

they could see how the boys' work was during the year.

Young people like to make little (6) d... on the paper when they write

letters or poems. These boys were the (7) s... .They used to draw little pictures

all (8) r... the writing. Sometimes they coloured them, and after a time the

pictures became more (9) i... than the writing. These were the (10)

f... Christmas cards.

SECTION III: WRITING (3.0 PTS)

Question 1: Rewrite sentences as directed.