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global warming. To know just what the
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(be) in the future (3) ---------------------
(extreme) difficult. However, most a. air pollution
scientists believe that greenhouse gases The text is about: b. bears
are warming the earth. What they are still
trying to understand is how quickly temperature (4) c. global warming
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from global warming are extremely difficult to predict.
Changing the temperature will possibly have some (5) ----------------------------------------------------
-------------------- (affect) on the planet’s weather. If
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temperatures rise a lot, the most important result (6) Justify?
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raising global sea levels. The rise in sea levels [Link] it easy for scientists to predict the
would be (7) --------------------- (catastrophe) climate changes?
for some places. Islands would disappear
completely. Flood would (8) ------------------- -----------------------------------------------------
(occur) along coast lines all over the world, [Link] will the effects of global
displacing more people and (9) ------------------- warming be ?
(ruin) cropland. In the case of major
global warming and melted ice caps, -----------------------------------------------------
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some countries might simply (10) ----------
(cease) to exist. If global warming (11) [Link] to you, how should people
-------------- (be) uncontrolled, a major help to stop this catastrophe?
catastrophe will happen.
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I smoke , drink and never skip meals, I have lots of
In America, today, the battle (1) ------------------ late nights , too. (work / works / working ) and
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Several cities have (2) ---------------- made smoking on the run.
illegal in public places, imposing stiff fines on (3) I do worry about my life style in terms of health. I
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been found partially responsible last year (4) ( most / more / many ) important problem is that it
---------------- the death of a woman (5) --------------- (bored / boring / boredom ). I’d much rather be
down the pub. But I realize I am going to seriously
had smoked a (6) --------------- and a half of
rethink my life style if I want (stay/to stay/staying)
cigarettes each day for forty years and who (7)
healthy and slim, (because/so/but) I suppose the
--------------- of cancer three years ago.
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