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Vocabulary and grammar review Uni~ 5

Vocabulary 3 ... ...... . is a big industry in my country, and
people come here from all over the world. On
0 Complete the sentences below with words the other hand, when our holidays come along,
connected with the environment, then use the we local people become ourselves and
words to complete this crossword. go off to visit other parts of the world.
4 I love to go walking in the country; it makes me
feel in harmony with . and the natural
world.

Grammar

€) Rewrite the passage below putting the verbs in
the underlined phrases into the passive. Make
any other necessary changes.

Example: C.o'!Afd ~sptt..~it ~-xd co-xcre.te. e.ve.-xt'!A~£i-lJ
be. re.pf~ce.d b(J soi~r p~-xe.fs?

1 Many animals are now protected as a result of
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wildlife conservation pro r-c:\t~~-i11-.e.s . .
2 We need to reduce the quantity of
gases we release into the atmosphere.
3 Politicians talk a lot about change,
but don't do enough to prevent it.
4 Rising sea may mean that some
islands will disappear.
5 I believe it's time to reduce our dependence on
fuels. Could solar panels eventually replace
6 Solar power and wind power are two forms of
asphalt and concrete?
energy.
7 The ideal situation would be to drive cars with These days, we can find solar panels just about
zero .. everywhere. People have suggested that if we laid
8 Tigers and pandas are species. down a gigantic number of solar panels over a wide
area, they could absorb enough sunlight to power
@ Complete each of these sentences with the correct
form of nature, the environment, the countryside, entire cities, effectively ending our energy crisis. The
tourist or tourism. problem is that they would spoil the countryside if we
covered large areas of it with these things.
1 The town I live in is surrounded by beautiful
unspoilt ~O't!\1\tr~.side. . 0 n the other hand, there is a network of roads all over
2 Governments should do more to protect .... . ... the country, and now they are even manufacturing
by limiting pollution, especially in big cities. cars with solar panels on them. If you put the two
together, you get a unique solution: solar panels on
our highways. This could mean that we could place
the panels along roadways as sound barriers, or an
even more extreme idea -that we will make the roads
themselves out of solar panels.
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