Words and phrases to be learned and used

1. to chisel 2. to be under threat of smth 3. package tour 4. cultural site 5. to industrialize 6. to travel the globe 7. to go rafting 8. fume 9. to eat away at smth 10. replica 11. theme park 12. tourist ghetto 13. to abandon 14. to broaden 15. blissful 16. to boom 17. to choke 18. to conserve 19. eco-tourist 20. endangered species 21. fragile 22. to go easy on smth 23. hiking trails 24. irreversible 25. to mitigate the environmental assault 26. a payoff 27. to promote preservation 28. to sustain 29. trash (waste, junk, debris, sewage, garbage) 30. biodiversity 31. species 32. extinction (to become extinct) 33. ecosystem 34. rainforest

35. liability 36. cultivated 37. to sow 38. balance of nature 39. natural habitat 40. to upset the balance 41. to store genetic resources 42. acid rain 43. greenhouse gas 44. fossil fuel 45. leakage 46. water supply 47. to pollute (pollutant) 48. to dissolve 49. layer 50. incinerator 51. landfill site 52. to damage (to destroy, to mar, to spoil, to ruin, to harm) 53. to recycle 54. to discharge 55. to purify 56. fungus 57. fertilizer (fertility) 58. pesticide 59. to dump 60. to discard 61. hazardous to pose (a problem) to combat to prey upon smb pest genetically engineered plants 67. deposit

I. Fill in the missing letters to restore the text.

Save our wild flowers.

Pl…nts are the basis of our life on E… …th. In Britain’s countryside, wild pl…nts are being d…stro…ed on a scale never known before, by po… …u…ion, neglect and wanton h…bitat d…struc…ion. Each year 5.000 miles of hedgerow disa… … …ar – the ins…cts, birds and animals they s…p…ort. 22 flower sp… … …es became …xtinct since records began, 317 standing on the brink. You can help save many more!!!

We must save pl…nts thr… …tened with …xtinc…ion. Flower – rich meadows are pl…nt nature re… …rves where we can con… …rve cowslips and bluebells, daffodils and orchids, and hundreds more sp… … …es.

II. Fill in the blanks using your essential vocabulary.

1. The sculptor was at work ________ a statue.

2. The ________ are _____ _______ of ______ if we don’t take care of them.

3. Our Florida ______ ________ includes transportation, hotel, and meals for a week.

4. This ancient mansion on the hill is one of the best _______ _________ of the town.

5. The strong _______ of the automobile exhaust nearly _______him.

6. There is a ________ of the Mayflower in Plymouth.

7. _________ nations _________ natural resources at several times the rate of agrarian countries.

8. Travel can _______ a person's sympathies for people from foreign lands.

9. We have _______ memories of a summer vacation.

10. All _______ of apples belong to the same genus.

11. The black rhino is recognized as an __________ mammal and has been placed on the official list of threatened ________.

12. He ___________ a farm of 500 acres.

13. The dinosaur is an _________ animal.

14. The farmer _________ the field with oats.

15. The use of ________ _______ the _______ of ________.

16. Coal, oil, and natural gas are ________ _________.

17. Carbon dioxide and other radiatively active gases such as methane, ozone, and fluorocarbons are the __________ ___________.

18. Refuse from Brooklyn and Manhattan is _________ in a ________ _________.

19. Two other auto exhaust ________ play a much larger role in the formation of _________.

20. There is nothing in untouched nature to compare with our extravagant use of energy and our failure to ________ essential materials.