SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS) Part 1. Questions 56 to 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each) Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. More than two hundred years ago, the term “ enviromental polution” was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (56) ________ water, and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well- developed. Nowadays, the (57) ________ is quite different. The world today is faced with many (58) ________ threats. The most ...

SECTION III: READING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. Questions 56 to 65 (2 points - 0.2/ each)

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

More than two hundred years ago, the term “ enviromental polution” was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (56) ________ water, and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well- developed. Nowadays, the (57) ________ is quite different. The world today is faced with many (58) ________ threats. The most dangerous threat of all is war, and after the threat of war is (59) ________. People all over the world are worried about things that are happening to the environment. Actually, it is man that is (60) ________ the surroundings with many kinds of wastes from the devices that make human lives more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous (61) ________ and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycles. Manufactures know that (62) ________ from factories make water and (63) ________ polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on (64) ________ the wastes safely. (65) ________ rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about polution?