Don’t throw it away
I) Reading Comprehension
Read the following passage and then answer the questions
Environmental sense makes economic sense
Today, everyone understands that waste disposal needs expert skills. Burying rubbish – ‘landfill’ – remains the most common form of waste disposal, but it is becoming an expensive choice. This is partly because landfill sites now have to be carefully constructed to prevent pollution – toxic leaks into the groundwater, for example. It is also because the world is running out of holes in the ground to fill with waste. Both of these changes are making landfill more and more expensive.
Due to disposal costs alone, it therefore now makes good economic sense to recycle as much as possible. Moreover, there are several other major economic points to consider. Recycling has positive cost advantages in itself. Making a completely new aluminum can costs 20 times as much as recycling an old one. Similarly, the world now makes a quarter of its new steel from recycled metal, and the USA has recently raised this to a third. Recycling therefore saves the producer money and helps to limit consumer price rises. Recycling also creates a lot of jobs. In recycling than in metal mining. There are thousands of different sorts of jobs, too. On the one hand, there is the Indian worker who turns old car tyres into water pipes for the farming industry. On the other, there is the IT expert at Centrol who has designed a program to show new customers the environmental effects of recycling. He can do this in many different ways – from cuts in emissions to the number of trees that it can save. In today’s world, then, recycling not only makes very good environmental sense, but also extremely good economic sense.
1-Answer the following questions:
1. What does waste disposal need?
Waste disposal needs expert skills.
2. Why is waste disposal becoming an expensive choice?
Because the world is running out of holes and landfills should be carefully constructed to prevent pollution and toxic leaks to groundwater.
3. What is the most common form of waste disposal?
Burying rubbish in landfills.
4. Which is better: to make new metal or to recycle ? Why ?
Recycling is better than making a completely new metal because it makes economic sense.
5. What do the underlined words refer to ?
“this” refers to the proportion of recycling steel in America. “who” refers to the IT expert in Centrol.
2-Find the synonyms from the passage:
1. built: constructed
2. type:. forms
3. poisonous: toxic
4. local dump: landfill
5. rubbish: waste
3-Find the opposite from the passage:
1. carelessly : carefully
2. cheap: expensive
3. minor: major
4. consumer: producer
5. local :global
4-Choose the correct answer from a,b,c, or d:
1. The company now employs100 people.
a) employs b) employ c) employment d) employable
2. Most plastic does not break downand will last for years.
a) downbreak b) breakdown c) down break d) break down
3. Traditional methods were careless and environmentally unacceptable
a) acceptable b) accept c) unacceptable d) spectacle
4. USA has raised this to a third
a) quarter b) half c) two-thirds d) third
5. Recycling saves the producermoney.
a) produce b) productive c) producer d) production
II) Vocabulary
1- Put in the blanks the suitable word from the box:
mosaic council seeds leaking patriots |
1. Always try to mend leakingtaps
2. The city councildecided on the reform of the system.
3. You can make a mosaicfrom broken dishes.
4. Patriots are always remembered.
5. Plants grow from seeds
2-Make pairs of words from the box to complete the sentences:
bed | water | local | plastic | faulty |
pots | computers | cover | barrel | dump |
1. Gaza City Council is doing a project for the local dump.
2. We put water in a water barrel.
3. She made a bed coverfrom pieces of cloth.
4. He mends faulty computersand makes them work well.
5. My neighbor is a farmer. He plants seeds in plastic pots.
3-Rewrite the following sentences using a word from the same family in brackets
1. When you do a test, make your choicecorrect. ( choose)
2. Every Tuesday, rubbish is collected(collection)
3. The consumption of electricity is increasing .(consume)
4. Waste disposal costs a lot of money. (dispose)
5. They are constructinga recycling plant .(construct)
4- Put in the correct word from the box:
boots current perfect prevents groundwater |
1. The law preventssmoking in public places.
2. Yesterday I bought a new pair of boots.
3. They are in perfectcondition.
4. Groundwater is cleaner than river water.
5. The current model of this car is very expensive.
5-Match (A)with (B):
(A) (B)
1. a tenth ( 2 ) ¼
2. a quarter ( 5 ) 
3. a third ( 1 )
4. two-thirds ( 3 ) ⅓
5. nine-tenth ( 4 ) ⅔
6-Match (A)with (B):
(A) (B)
1. 25% ( 5 ) sixty six point seven percent
2. 50% ( 3 ) ninety percent
3. 90% ( 2 ) fifty percent
4. 33.3% ( 1 ) twenty five percent
5. 66.7% ( 4 ) thirty three point seven percent
III) Language
1-Rewrite the following sentences using a suitable modal verb:
may - ( not ) have to - should - must – mustn’t |
1. It is a good idea to check your work carefully.
You should check your work carefully.
2. It is necessary for us to revise before the exam.
We must revise before the exam.
3. It is possible for him to practise reading English.
He may practise reading English.
4. It is not necessary to go if you do not want to do it.
You don’t have to go if you don’t want to.
5. Do not miss the film next week.
You mustn’t miss the film next week.
IV) Writing
Write a letter to the editor of Al-Ayyam Newspaper describing the environmental problem that resulted from the war on Gaza and caused a lot of pollution, especially the ruins of destroyed houses, roads and facilities. Suggest a solution to make things right. Your name is Ibrahim Hussein and you live at 35 Shuhada Street,Gaza. The Newspaper address is El-Salam Building, 47 Arafat Street Ramallah.
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