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Выберите правильный ответ. In Japan recycling is no whim or fad, but generally accepted part of ___

Выберите правильный ответ. According to officials, the planned network of huge dams and irrigation canals will provide water for drinking and agriculture in an area worryingly prone to ___

Выберите правильный ответ. After-shocks registering up to Force 4 at the ___were felt on the same day in the vicinity of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia.

Выберите правильный ответ. Al­though beer bottles are still reused they are an exception from the trend of recent decades of not___

Выберите правильный ответ. Although factory farming is still widespread, farmers are aware that consumers are increasingly interested in the living conditions and even the feelings of ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Although the medical and scientific professions still maintain that ___is necessary for research purposes, there is more public opposition to this than ever before.

Выберите правильный ответ. An ecosystem can be categorized into its ___constituents, including minerals, climate, soil, water, sunlight, and all other nonliving elements, and its biotic constituents, consisting of all its living members.

Выберите правильный ответ. At present the average Japanese citizen ___ about 920 g of waste per day, i.e. more than 330 kg a year.

Выберите правильный ответ. Could I have some water, please? I've got a ___ in my throat.

Выберите правильный ответ. Ecology also called bioecology, bionomics, or environmental biology, study of the relationships between organisms and their ___

Выберите правильный ответ. In addition to certain obligatory recycling, an economic system must ___ which would make it financially advantageous to re-use materials.

Выберите правильный ответ. In the early decades of the 20th century toilet paper and servi­ettes were made from old newspapers and magazines, which were bought up by ___ collectors who sold it for re­processing.

Выберите правильный ответ. Industry has manifested an inter­est in the call made by the University of the United Nations Organization for «zero emission», i.e. total ___of the dis­charge of noxious substances during the manufacturing process.

Выберите правильный ответ. Let sleeping ___ lie.

Выберите правильный ответ. Make hay while the ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Many supermarkets now ___ free-range eggs to their customers, instead of eggs from battery hens.

Выберите правильный ответ. Nowadays the greatest ___ to industrial recycling is the excess of expenditure over income.

Выберите правильный ответ. Several cosmetics companies now claim that their products are not ___on animals, a policy which has been found to be popular with consumers.

Выберите правильный ответ. The change in the climate of public ___means that using animals for entertainment is also frowned on.

Выберите правильный ответ. The critics say that more than 200,000 people will be uprooted and rehoused, and ancient ___cultures will be obliterated.

Выберите правильный ответ. The earth's recycling system is ruined by petroleum hydrocarbons and other pollutants, which harm the environment and which do not ___ to soil.

Выберите правильный ответ. The individual consumer must have a ___ that is based on an awareness of the need to recycle.

Выберите правильный ответ. The Japanese have learnt how to ___ paper waste into bricks, housing panels, and other construction materials.

Выберите правильный ответ. The term ___ can imply vari­ous methods of reprocessing secondary materials and reusing all sorts of prod­ucts: household, waste packaging materi­als, even industrial waste.

Выберите правильный ответ. The World Bank recently halted funding as a result of intense pressure from ___, following an unfavourable independent review of the project.

Выберите правильный ответ. The world­wide drive for saving resources calls ___ new ways to be found of curbing the rate at which the amount of waste increases.

Выберите правильный ответ. There have been experiments to use untreated waste for making ___ and of in­cinerating rubbish to power the air-conditioning systems in public buildings.

Выберите правильный ответ. There is a widespread revulsion against ___such as fox-hunting, and often activists endanger their own lives in an attempt to stop what Oscar Wilde called 'the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable'.

Выберите правильный ответ. Too many cooks spoil the ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Wouldn't you just love to be a ___ on the wall when Sarah tells him it's all over?

Выберите правильный ответ. Other measures being examined by the govern­ment are a system for resale of the rights to emit noxious substances and the intro­duction of a tax on the burning of oil, coal, natural gas and other fuels which produce ___ during combus­tion.

Выберите правильный ответ. A bird in the hand is worth two in the ___

Выберите правильный ответ. After a long day in the town, you really appreciate the fresh air of the ___

Выберите правильный ответ. As part of its commitment to ___ countries, the World Bank originally gave India a $450 million loan for this vast project.

Выберите правильный ответ. Barnaby spent all his life working on the___, like his father and grandfather before him.

Выберите правильный ответ. Beer bottles and large vine bot­tles are constantly ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Caroline has cried ___so many times before that people just don't believe her any more.

Выберите правильный ответ. Cosmetics companies who claim not to ___ their products on animals are gaining a large share of the market.

Выберите правильный ответ. Don't count your chickens before they ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Ecology emerged in the late 20th century as one of the most popular and most important aspects of ___

Выберите правильный ответ. Even the great cellist, Dmitri Radovic, admitted to having ___ in his stomach before a concert.

Выберите правильный ответ. For recycling to ___ root as a social system, individuals, em­ployers and government must recognize the importance of conserving the environ­ment of our planet Earth.

Выберите правильный ответ. From the helicopter the navigator could see the red cliffs of the Devon ___

Выберите правильный ответ. From the helicopter the police had a ___eye view of the accident.

Выберите правильный ответ. Grass and trees convert carbon dioxides, taken in from air and water, into the ___ so es­sential to animal life.

Выберите правильный ответ. However, critics say that the dam project represents ___and cultural destruction on a scale so massive that the benefits of the project will pale in comparison to the damage it will cause.

Выберите правильный ответ. I'm afraid you're flogging a dead ___, Collins. The boss will never agree to your proposal.

Выберите правильный ответ. It is hoped that recent advances in medical research will enable us to ___many of the diseases which currently kill a large number of people in Third World countries.

Выберите правильный ответ. Jane was having a___ of a time at the party, and could hardly be dragged away.

Выберите правильный ответ. Looking at basics, it is easy to see that the whole of our ___ functions on the principle of constant recycling.