Read paragraph 3

Read paragraph 2.

Read paragraph 1.

B. Paragraph Study.

1. Identify the topic sentence. Try to identify the words which may be somehow associated with the idea expressed by "characterization". Identify four cases of contrast or comparison (use attributes as your guide), to be able to state one of the causes of the present-day environmental problems. 2. What is meant by "the intricately operating whole"? 3. Find the words equivalent to: недостаточно равномерное развитие конкретных областей знания и правильного представления о сложном взаимодействии процессов, происходящих внутри единого целого. 4. Give Russian equivalents of: spectacular though they may appear, it is this very intervention that has landed him...; ignoring as it does.

1. Follow the words a nuclear catastrophe and the environmental problem through their transformations into pronouns. Compare the characteristics of a nuclear catastrophe and of the environmental crisis to see their common and different features. State the main idea of the paragraph. 2. Find the words equivalent to: невозможно скрыться от; характер постепенного нарастания; скрытый и сложный механизм взаимодействия. 3. Identify the words used by the author to express the idea of "danger"; "inescapability"; "cumulative nature"; "critical point". 4. Give Russian equivalents of: no matter how small or big it is; whatever secluded life he might be living] should it happen] for no single action taken, or decision made, can bring about... an avalanche of irreversible and immediate events.

1. Identify the topic sentence. State the most urgent needs of the situation. 2. What is meant by "the new approach", "to reach there" and "the time?" 3. Give Russian equivalents of: first and foremost, however noble the motives may seem to us; to bring mankind to the brink of annihilation overnight; it would take us some time yet to reach there.

Text 9. 1) Read the text to yourself and be ready for a comprehension check-up:

The jigsaw-puzzle * fit of the coastlines on each side of the Atlantic Ocean must have been noticed as soon as the first reliable maps of the New World were prepared. It was as early as 1620 that Francis Bacon called attention to their striking resemblance. He did not go on, however, to suggest that the continents might once have formed a unified land mass. In the succeeding centuries suggestions to this effect were made, but they were far from being well-grounded hypotheses, as it was mainly to some postulated catastrophe, such as the sinking of the mythical Atlantis or the Great Flood that the similarity of the coastlines was ascribed.

The hypothesis of the Continental Drift which is generally accepted nowadays was first presented to scientific community in 1912, but it was not until 50 years later that it gained general currency. When this view of the earth did replace earlier ideas (in the 1960's) it was only because of conclusive evidence derived from discoveries in geophysics and oceanography.

* A set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like, that form a picture or design when fitted together.

2) Check up for comprehension:

1. Identify the dominant word group and follow it through its transformation into its equivalents. 2. What made it possible to notice the

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