Independent work II
Variant 12
Reading task.
DEBATE OVER THE WORLD'S FUTURE
How many people can the earth hold? Will birth and death rates continue to decline? Can food production keep pace with population growth? Can technology supplement or replace today's resources? What are the long-term effects of pollution on health, climate, and farm production? Debate over such issues has spawned many volumes, as scholars look to the future with varying degrees of optimism and gloom. In a lecture titled "The Terror of Change", Patricia Gulas Strauch cited three aspects of our future about which there is little disagreement: the speed of change will accelerate; the world will be increasingly complex; and nations and world issues will be increasingly interdependent. Today's problems - which face Third World megacities in particular - cannot be ignored by developed countries. We cannot look to the past for solutions as there is no precedent for such growth. We are in uncharted, challenging waters.
EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) become smaller; decrease _______________
b) add something to _________________
c) take something's place, instead of it ________________
d) discussion involving different opinions ________________
e) important subject or question causing discussion _________________
f) cause to happen or be created; produce in great numbers ______________
g) publication, e.g. a book, published articles, etc _________________
h) person with great knowledge, usually of a particular subject ____________
i) belief or feeling that the future will be good ____________________
j) feeling of unhappiness or being without hope ____________________
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