3 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Choose the best word from the table (A, B, C or D) to fill in gaps 1-10 in the text. The world is warming 1 ____ than at any time in the last 10,000 years. The 1990s were the hottest ten years in the past millennium. You 2 ____ think that a rise in temperature of about three or four degrees is not very much, but the effects are 3 ____ than it seems at first sight. Global warming has already killed off some types of animals completely, such as Costa Rica's Golden Toad, 4 ____ couldn't get used to higher temperatures quickly enough. A lot of plants are, of course, 5 ____ risk, too. When deserts 6 ____ larger, people can't use their farmland any more. Then food may become a big problem. But some effects can be felt even today. There have been more and more heat waves in the summer, with many people 7 ____ in big cities. Rising sea levels are threatening whole nations on low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Almost all the ice in Europe's and America's higher mountains 8 ____ away, which means that rivers will soon dry up completely during the summer. And in the future, super-hurricanes like Katrina in 2005, which caused 9 ____ destruction in New Orleans, could become more common. It's quite 10 ____ that a country such as the USA does not do more about global warming.

Выбор лучшего слова из таблицы (A, B, C или D) для заполнения пропусков 1-10 в тексте:

The world is warming 1. faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. The 1990s were the hottest ten years in the past millennium. You 2. may think that a rise in temperature of about three or four degrees is not very much, but the effects are 3. worse than it seems at first sight. Global warming has already killed off some types of animals completely, such as Costa Rica's Golden Toad, 4. who couldn't get used to higher temperatures quickly enough. A lot of plants are, of course, 5. in risk, too. When deserts 6. become larger, people can't use their farmland any more. Then food may become a big problem. But some effects can be felt even today. There have been more and more heat waves in the summer, with many people 7. dying in big cities. Rising sea levels are threatening whole nations on low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Almost all the ice in Europe's and America's higher mountains 8. melts away, which means that rivers will soon dry up completely during the summer. And in the future, super-hurricanes like Katrina in 2005, which caused 9. a lot of destruction in New Orleans, could become more common. It's quite 10. surprising that a country such as the USA does not do more about global warming.

Ответ:

• 1. B
• 2. A
• 3. C
• 4. B
• 5. A
• 6. A
• 7. C
• 8. A
• 9. A
• 10. A