C Translate from English into Russian in written form

1. As scientific and technological progress continues (and this process is irreversible) it demands an increasingly cleaner environment.

2. Whereas in the factory, we can in some way limit the effect of an aggressive, eroding environment by insulation, ventilation, filters and air-conditioning, once leaving the workshop we are attacked by the aggressive environment of any large city.

3. Even the buildings and structures deteriorate and you can see the effects with the naked eye.

4. A large city is a model of the undesirable ecological future which would befall all of us if we had not already alerted ourselves to the danger and begun thinking about what is to be done.

5. The main problems of the big cities include: human health in a large city, the potential for further scientific and technological progress and, finally, the preservation of natural elements present in the city itself and its environs.

D. Read the text again and answer the following questions.

1. Why can’t an individual scientist describe the environmental situation?

2. What is a demanding problem man has to cope with at the beginning of the 21st century?

3. What is common and what is different between environmental crisis and nuclear catastrophe?

4. What has separated man from the rest of animal world?

5. What is necessary to do to preserve our planet?