Соч по Англискому 8 класс Task 1. Read the text carefully. Five sentences are missing in the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one, which fits each gap 1-6. There is one extra sentence that you do not need. Read the text and choose the correct sentences.
Protection of environment
The planet Earth is only a tiny part of the universe, but it's the only place where human beings can live. People always polluted their surroundings. 1. People lived in uncrowded rural areas and did not have pollution – caused by machines. With the development of crowded industrial cities, which created huge amounts of pollutants, the problem has become more important. Today our planet is in serious danger. Acid rains, global warming, air and water pollution, and overpopulation are the problems that threaten human life on Earth. Our forests are disappearing because they are cut down or burnt. 2 .
The seas are in danger. 3 . The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following its fate. The Aral Sea is about to disappear. If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas. Every ten minutes one kind of animal, plant or insect dies out forever.4. Air pollution is another serious problem. In Cairo just breathing the air is dangerous – equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. The same holds true for many Russian cities.
These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet. They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains.
5 . We have the time, the money and even the technology to make our planet a better, cleaner and safer place. We can plant trees and create parks for endangered species.
A. If this trend continues, one day we won't have enough oxygen to breathe.
B. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today may soon become
extinct.
C. Fortunately,it'.
D. But until now pollution was not such a serious problem.
E. They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear wastes, chemical fertilizers and
pesticides
F. Factories emit tons of harmful chemicals.
Task 2. Find words in the text, which have a similar meaning to these definitions.
1. believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies.

2. the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
3. a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect.