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Task 4. Explain the significance of these numbers and
measurements from the texts.
A Green city
Curitiba is a medium-sized city in the south of Brazil,
the largest country in South America. Why is it unusual?
Because many South American cities are very polluted.
But Curitiba is the opposite: it is one of the cleanest and
'greenest' cities in the world. In most cities, cars cause a lot
of pollution. But in Curitiba, only a quarter of the 1.7 million
is because the bus system is probably the best in the world.
inhabitants use a car - the others use public transport. That
It is called the BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) and it carries two
million passengers a day. Tickets are cheap and journeys
are fast. And nobody in the city lives further than 400
metres from a bus stop. There are lots of parks in the city: in
fact, there are 50 square metres of green space per person!
Artificial city
Neft Dashlari is a man-made city in the Caspian Sea. It is
about 65 kilometres from the east coast of Azerbaijan, in
Asia, and it has a population of about 2,000. The most
unusual thing about the city is its location - it is in the
sea, but not on an island. The ground below the city is
completely artificial. Neft Dashlari is about 70 years old
and it exists for one reason: oil. The city is in very bad
condition. For example, it has 300 kilometres of roads, but
only 45 kilometres are safe to use. The bridges are falling
into the sea and some of the apartments are under water.
But people still live and work there. It is probably one of the
worst cities in the world for its inhabitants, but salaries are
much higher than in other places.
UNUSUAL
CITIES
THE GOOD,
THE BAD
and THE UGLY
Recycling city
Cairo, in the north of Egypt, is one of the biggest cities in
Africa. It is the capital and has a population of nearly eight
million. Like any city, it creates tonnes of rubbish every
day. But amazingly, the city does not employ anybody
to collect rubbish. Instead, a group of people called the
Zabbaleen collect it. The inhabitants of Cairo pay them
a small amount of money for doing this. The Zabbaleen
take the rubbish back to their town on the edge of Cairo.
It is called Manshiyat Naser and has a population of about
60,000. There, the women and children sort the rubbish
by hand. It seems a very slow system, but in fact it works
very well. They recycle nearly 90% of the rubbish, which is
far better than recycling centres in most western countries.
Manshiyat Naser certainly is not one of the most attractive
places in Egypt. But thanks to a 2009 film about it, Garbage
Dreams it is quite famous-and quite popular with tourists!
Text A:
-1.7 million
the city's population
-400 meters
- 50 square metres
Text B:
- 2,000
-70
-300 km
Text C:
- eight million
- 60,000
- 90%
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