Wind Provides Electricity for Homes and Schools

1.windmill	вітряк	7.cause	спричиняти	13.retort	заперечення
2.dot	крапка	8.path	стежка	14.comeback	повернення
3.rural	сільський	9.generator	генератор, виробник	15.vane	флюгер
4.atop	нагорі	10.provoke	викликати	16.hurl	битка
5.shaft	вал	11.yarn	нитка, пряжа	17.spin	прясти
6.rely	довіряти	12.thread	нитка	18.orbit	життєвий шлях

For many years, windmills dotted the landscape of the United States & Other countries. Many people in ruralcommunities used windmills to (1) ______needed electricity. But windmills began to disappear as power (2) _____ connected small communities to electric power plants far away.

Now windmills are making a (3)_____ . They are becoming popular again with people (4)_____ live in communities large & small. The new windmills are often called wind turbines. People in at least 47 states have put wind turbines in their yards to generate electricity (5)_____ their homes. Wind blows the (6)_____ of a turbine that sits atop a tall tower. The turbine (7)_____ a shaft, which connects to a generator that makes electricity.

Homeowners with turbines can’t rely (8)_____ wind power all the time, though. They still need to use some electricity from a power company when the wind the is not blowing. But when it is very windy, the turbine can generate (9)_____ power than a home needs. Sometimes a family can sell the extra electricity to the power company.

Many people like turbines because wind power does not causepollution. Power from a turbine also can lower a home’s electricity (10)_____ by 50 to 90 per cent.

But not everyone thinks turbines belong to people’s yards. Some people (11)_____ neighbours have turbines say they are noisy & spoil their view. Others say the turbines (12)_____ birds that fly in their paths.

	A	B	C	D
1.	generator	perform	reproduce	provoke
2.	yarns	ropes	lines	threads
3.	retort	reply	turn	comeback
4.	what	which	who	why
5.	for	from	to	into
6.	blades	vanes	spades	ventilators
7.	hurls	takes	spins	orbits
8.	in	on	upon	for
9.	many	most	lots	more
10.	saving	bill	money	list
11.	whom	who	whose	what
12.	harm	hurt	kick	make

7. Read the text below. Match questions (A-G) to (1-5). There are two questions you don’t need to use.

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