Question 2: Choose the best answer to complete the passage. (2,0p)
More than two hundred years ago, the term “environmental pollution was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (1)_______water, and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well-developed. Nowadays, the (2) _______ is quite different. The world today is facing with many (3) _______ threats. The most dangerous threat is war, and after the threat of war is (4) _______. People all over the world are worried about things that are happening to the environment. Actually it is man that is (5) _______the surrounding with many kinds of wastes from the devices that make human lives more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous (6) _______and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufacturers know that (7) _______from factories make water and (8) _______ polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on (9) _______the wastes safely. (10) _______ rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?
1. A. fresh | B. pure | C. clean | D. boiled |
2. A. situation | B. Case | C. circumstance | A. both A&C |
3. A. chief | B. significant | C. major | D. main |
4. A. pollution | B. contamination | C. dirtying | D. both A and B |
5. A. poisoning | B. destroying | C. dirtying | D. contaminating |
6. A. steam | B. vapor | C. air | D. moisture |
7. A. wastes | B. junks | C. garbage | D. litters |
8. A. land | B. ground | C. soil | D. earth |
9. A. solving | B. dealing | C. processing | D. treating |
10. A. Throwing | B. Scattering | C. Distributing | D. Pouring |
1. A. fresh | B. pure | C. clean | D. boiled |
2. A. situation | B. Case | C. circumstance | A. both A&C |
3. A. chief | B. significant | C. major | D. main |
4. A. pollution | B. contamination | C. dirtying | D. both A and B |
5. A. poisoning | B. destroying | C. dirtying | D. contaminating |
6. A. steam | B. vapor | C. air | D. moisture |
7. A. wastes | B. junks | C. garbage | D. litters |
8. A. land | B. ground | C. soil | D. earth |
9. A. solving | B. dealing | C. processing | D. treating |
10. A. Throwing | B. Scattering | C. Distributing | D. Pouring |