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II. Reading

A. Study the following words using a dictionary. Look for their synonyms and fill in the blanks in the sentences below:

Waste, to reduce (reduction), profit, influence, goods, generate, excessive, flow.

1. Garbage and ______should be removed from rooms where children and adults will be present.

2. As time goes by, their presence in the housing market will slowly ______.

3. It points out that in many rich countries the process of debt _______hasn't even started.

4. The amount of municipal ______ produced in western Europe increased by 23% between 1995 and 2003, to reach 577kg per person.

5. _______from online ads is much less than from print advertising.

6. The group has had an uneven record in recent years, swinging back and forth between _______- and losses.

7. Social networks are making a huge ______on sales, with fans recommending brands to hundreds of their friends.

8. International _________ in the form of technology, systems and capital have historically been a feature of industrialization and economic growth.

9. The statement said sharp increases in _______ prices pose risks for the ongoing recovery of the world economy.

10. One in seven companies already uses the Internet to sell ______and deliver services.

11. These measures will increase the firm's ability _______ income.

12. Another way to extend the life of fresh fruits and vegetables is to buy irradiated _________.

13. The booming economy has attracted an ______ of funds from both domestic and foreign investors.

14. Others blame it for an unwelcome _______of cheap labour and an outflow of jobs.

15. State authorities welcome the _____ of money from those seeking city contracts.

16. Some of the hopes attached to foreign investors were, in retrospect, _____.

17. The demand of the good railroad does not seem to be _________.

(Revenue, rubbish, diminish, influences, reduction, profits, waste, impact, commodity, goods, inflow, inflow, to generate, flow, excessive, produce (noun), immoderate)

B. The words below collocate with each other. Make up collocations and complete the given sentences:

1. Is recycling worth doing on environmental ___________ ? 2. Waste and Resources Action Programme is a _____ -profit British Company. 3. Studies that look at the entire ______ cycle of a particular material can shed ________ this question. 4. Recycling __________ natural resources. 5. Landfills ___________ valuable space and emit methane. 6. Recycling ___________ an important role during the WW II. 7. As industrial societies began to produce ever-growing quantities of garbage, recycling _________ a new meaning. 8. As with all commodities, ________ for recyclables fluctuate. 9. Most curb side recycling programmes are not financially _____-sustaining.

C. Read the text and match the highlighted words to their definitions:

1. to recycle; 2. impact; 3. carbon-dioxide; 4. volume; 5. landfill; 6. energy-intensive; 7. incinerator; 8. noxious; 9. to emit (emission); 10 to deal (in); 11. commodity; 12. to process; 13. to fluctuate; 14. to charge for; 15. revenue.

A. ___to treat smth, for example with chemicals, in order to keep it, change it, etc.

B. ___ a container or machine for burning rubbish

C. ___ a powerful effect or impression

D. ___ an area of land where large amounts of waste material are buried

E. ___ the amount of space that smth contains or fills

F. ___to ask smb to pay a particular amount of money

G. ___a product or material that can be bought or sold

H. ___ a gas that has no colour or smell that people and animals breathe out of their lungs

I. ___ to change many times from one thing to another

J. ___ harmful or poisonous

K. ___ involving a lot of work or care in a short period of time

L. ___ money regularly received by a government, company, etc

M. ___ to do business, especially buying and selling goods.

N. ___ to use a special industrial process in order to make materials and products ready to be used again

O. ___ to send out a beam, noise, smell or gas.

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