Egy érdekes kis cikk az emberiség létszámának növekedéséről, ami pont idén október 31-én érte el a 7 milliárdot... Az Angol Feladattárban találtok egy komplett leckét, mp3 hanganyaggal, videóval, szókincsfejlesztő és szóbeli feladatokkal, megoldásokkal a témához.
Itt pedig egy rövid nyelvtani kiegészítős feladat a cikkhez:
Complete the text with the words given below!
The United Nations says the world’s population is (1) ____ to reach seven billion on October 31. Analysts are wondering whether it is a coincidence this (2) ____ falls on Halloween. The U.N. Population Fund predicts that some time on Monday, the world will welcome its seven billionth person. They also (3) ____ that the baby will be born in India. The birth of a newborn baby is usually a (4) ____ of joy, but this one has got alarm bells ringing with environmentalists. They say the world cannot (5) ____ with so many mouths to feed. The population has exploded in the past two centuries. In the early 1800s, there were just a billion of us; in 1960 that figure had (6) ____ to three billion. Half a century later, that figure has more than doubled.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Institute told CNN that “the consequences (7) ____ humanity could be grim." Other experts also paint a bleak (8) ____. CNN's Jack Cafferty warned of an "unsustainable" population of 9 billion and stated that "at some point there's not going to be enough (9) ____ for everybody." The New York Times (10) ____ that "the Earth is full [and that] we are eating into our future”. John Davis, editor of the Earth First! Journal, went even (11) ____ by saying we had no right to take so much from the Earth: "Human beings have no more value (12) ____ species than slugs," he said. Critics say humans have the ability for billions of us to live on our planet in a sustainable way.
| 1. | (a) | set | (b) | sit | (c) | sat | (d) | sate |
| 2. | (a) | gem stone | (b) | grindstone | (c) | milestone | (d) | stonewall |
| 3. | (a) | forecasting | (b) | forecaster | (c) | forecasts | (d) | forecast |
| 4. | (a) | sauce | (b) | source | (c) | scourge | (d) | resource |
| 5. | (a) | mope | (b) | dope | (c) | nope | (d) | cope |
| 6. | (a) | threesome | (b) | trio | (c) | triple | (d) | trebled |
| 7. | (a) | from | (b) | for | (c) | of | (d) | after |
| 8. | (a) | picture | (b) | drawing | (c) | mural | (d) | watercolour |
| 9. | (a) | staff | (b) | stiff | (c) | stuff | (d) | stifle |
| 10. | (a) | declaration | (b) | declares | (c) | declared | (d) | declare |
| 11. | (a) | future | (b) | fatherly | (c) | fruition | (d) | further |
| 12. | (a) | was | (b) | as | (c) | is | (d) | has |
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