Английский язык, 9 класс, тематические тестовые задания для подготовки к ГИА, Попова М.А., 2012

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Most scientists around the world agree that the Earth is getting warmer. They believe that some places are already 2°C hotter than they were 50 years ago, and that temperatures will go up another 5°C in the next hundred years. This means that the ice at the North and South pole will melt, the oceans will expand and the sea will rise by as much as one metre.

In the atmosphere above the earth, gases like carbon dioxide naturally trap the sun’s heat and keep the air warm. This stops most of the world from becoming covered in ice. However, the problem is that we are creating more and more carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels (coal and oil) to make electricity and drive cars. The result is what scientists call the ‘greenhouse effect’.

Nobody knows what will happen if global warming continues, but we can look at an example from the past to see what might happen. In the Pacific Ocean there is a small island, a rocky, treeless place called Easter Island, which has many strange old statues. Hundreds of years ago it was green and rich and covered in trees. But islanders cut down their trees to make fires, build boats and move their statues. In the end, there were no trees at all and there was no-one left.

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