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Choose the right article: The air is certainly a lot cleaner today than in ___ days of the smogs of the 1950's.

Choose the right article: These days, ___ many people are concerned about air pollution and whether it might affect their health.

Choose the right article: This information can be particularly important to people with medical conditions which ___ air pollution may make worse.

Choose the right article: ___ Government and the devolved administrations' Air Pollution Information Service is managed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Choose the right article: ___ fact is that most of the time, air pollution levels are low.

Choose the right conjunction: At the same time, rural England is a place ___ people live, and rural residents have similar concerns about work, education, health and crime as have people in urban areas have.

Choose the right conjunction: England Rural Development Programme (ERDP) is already proving its value, ___ inevitably the foot and mouth disease outbreak affected what could be achieved in 2001.

Choose the right conjunction: The greenhouse effect is a naturally-occurring phenomenon without ___ the Earth would be about 30° C colder.

Choose the right conjunction: The other members of the review group have been Edward Walker-Arnott, ___ is a former senior partner of Herbert Smith, solicitors, and is currently a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.

Choose the right conjunction: ___ of the absence of the greenhouse effect, the Earth would be clod and life would be impossible.

Choose the right conjunction: ___ the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation there is a massive increase in the amount of carbon-dioxide released into the atmosphere.

Choose the right conjunction: ___ there is no room for complacency, our export markets are re-opening and we have relaxed animal movements.

Choose the right conjunction: ___ the Trust's Council has done a marvellous job over the years, the requirements of a modern charity trustee body simply cannot be met by a group of 52 people.

Choose the right form of the Participle: England and Wales are unique in ___ on the private sector to own and deliver this essential service and meet environmental, economic and social objectives together.

Choose the right form of the Participle: Our water industry is lead by example at an international level by ___ market-based mechanisms to achieve fair pricing for consumers and business and high environmental standards.

Choose the right form of the Participle: Over the last five years, one-and a-half million households have been removed from this category of ___ more than 10 per cent of income on heating.

Choose the right form of the Participle: The work of the Carbon Trust, funded by DEFRA will become increasingly important in ___ business and the public sector towards low carbon energy solutions.

Choose the right form of the Participle: The work of the Carbon Trust, ___ by DEFRA will become increasingly important.

Choose the right form of the Participle: There are potentially enormous financial and carbon savings to be ___ from energy efficiency across the UK economy.

Choose the right form of the Participle: We have set out a range of possible measures to get the Combined Heat and Power industry ___ again.

Choose the right form of the Participle: We need new policies to stop waste ___ in the first place, to increase recycling, to find new markets for recycled products and to develop new disposal technologies.

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Put in the right preposition: A programme ___ implementing this has been prepared and is regularly updated.

Put in the right preposition: An internal Environmental Audit was initiated in 1990 to review all the Trust's policies and practices ___ their actual and potential environmental impacts.

Put in the right preposition: Current climate models predict that global temperatures could warm from between 1.4 to 5.8°C ___ the next 100 years, depending on the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted and the sensitivity of the climate system.

Put in the right preposition: DEFRA has a role to play with others in providing all citizens ___ access to healthy food, air and water; and safe places to live and work.

Put in the right preposition: EPA employs 18,000 people ___ the country, including our headquarters offices in Washington, DC, 10 regional offices, and more than a dozen labs.

Put in the right preposition: EPA is responsible for researching and setting national standards ___ a variety of environmental programs.

Put in the right preposition: EPA works to develop and enforce regulations that implement environmental laws enacted ___ Congress.

Put in the right preposition: EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard ___ the natural environment.

Put in the right preposition: Integral with this investment has been an innovatory, environmentally-benign approach to problem-solving ___ many related areas of management.

Put in the right preposition: Often, we know too little about the social impacts of our work and we must improve the knowledge base ___ this as we are doing for rural areas.

Put in the right preposition: Participating businesses can make '___ house' emission reductions or they can buy tradable emission allowances as a way of meeting their targets.

Put in the right preposition: Risks come ___ many forms.

Put in the right preposition: The EPA was assigned the daunting task ___ repairing the damage already done to the natural environment and to establish new criteria to guide Americans in making a cleaner environment a reality.

Put in the right preposition: The Government and the devolved administrations have therefore set a domestic goal ___ go further than the Kyoto commitment and cut the UK's emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.