IELTS JOURNAL 136 Exercise 71: Paragraph headings Try this 'paragraph headings' question from Cambridge IELTS 7, page 48-50.
Choose the correct heading for the paragraph below. 1. Co-operation of district officials.
2. Government authorities' instructions.
It would have been easy to criticise the MIRTP for using in the early phases a 'top-
down' approach, in which decisions were made by experts and officials before
being handed down to communities, but it was necessary to start the process from
the level of the governmental authorities of the district. It would have been difficult
to respond to the requests of villagers and other rural inhabitants without the
support and understanding of district authorities.
Exercise 72: True, False, Not Given Read the following text about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (The Independent, June 21, 2010). The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is making Americans think more about a clean
energy future – but not yet to the extent of having to pay for it, or to tackle
climate change, one of the leading US thinkers on global warming policy said
yesterday.
US citizens are "horrified" by the pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, and are starting
to think more about cleaner energy sources such as wind and wave power, said
Eileen Clausen, president of America's foremost climate think-tank, the
Washington-based Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
However, she said, when consumers are asked by pollsters if they would be
willing to pay more for such a future, they say no, and say the government
should pay. Furthermore, Ms Clausen said, the Gulf disaster was giving US
energy policy "a nudge rather than a shift" in the direction of clean energy, but it
would probably not be enough to bring forward legislation to curb carbon
emissions, at least for the present.
