VISSZA
MENÜ
ISMÉT
TOVÁBBYou are going to read an article about the effect of human activity on geography.
- Some words are missing from the text.
- Your task is to write the missing words on the dotted lines (1-8) after the text.
- Use only one word in each gap.
- There is an example (0) at the beginning.
RUINING THE PLANET
Man’s behaviour is changing the face of the Earth so rapidly (0) __ that __ famous landmarks could soon disappear from the map – this (1) what some recent disturbing pictures of the Aral Sea in Central Asia show. The damage caused by draining lakes and rivers has resulted in thousands of changes in (2) newly-published 10 th edition of ‘The Times Concise Atlas (3) the World’.The Dead Sea could disappear in 20 years and Lake Chad in Africa is 95 per cent smaller (4) it was in 1963. The Colorado River in America and the Aral Sea could (5) lost entirely. Global warming has caused massive changes to mountains that were once covered with snow. Even Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa will lose its famous snows (6) the planet continues to heat up at this rate.
Atlas spokesman Simon Judges said: “Our latest edition shows the fact (7) humans are creating and destroying both our geography (8) our weather system. The consequences could be catastrophic.”