I. PRONUNCIATION Exercise 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. 1. A. fertilizer B. disaster C. diversity D. environment 2. A. atmosphere B. ecosystem C. erosion D. enrol 3 A. image B. sewage C. manage D. engage 4. A. aquatic B. contamination C. catastrophe D. atmosphere Exercise 2: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others. 1. A. disappear B. environment C. contaminate D. renewable 2. A. evaporate B. disaster C. poisonous D.diversity 3. A. environmentalist B. substainable C. urbanization D. biological 4. A. endangered B. habitat C. detergent D. extinction II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR Choose the best answer which best fits each space in each sentence. 1 …………… can cause stress and psychological and health problems for humans such as increased heart rate and hearing damage. A. water pollution B. air pollution C. noise pollution D. soil pollution 2. Do you know how to do waste… ? A. separation B. division C. selection D. option 3. I wondered… the right thing. A. if I am doing B. was I doing C. am I doing D. whether I was doing 4. Julia said that she… there at noon. A. is going to be B. was going to be C. will be D. can be 5. Coastal cities often dump their… wastes into the sea. A. recycled B. untreated C. reused D. reduced 6. The rocks have… away over time. A. eroded B. evolved C. exhausted D. exposed 7. Animals are dying… far more often than you might think. A. from B. out C. for D. of 8. A……………energy system converts the energy found in sunlight, wind, falling water, waves, geothermal heat, or biomass. A. renewable B. non-renewable C. reusable D. released 9. used water, comes from factories and households. A. Sewage B. Emission C. Detergents D. Poison 10. The… is the rise in temperature caused by gases in the atmosphere. A. climate change B. greenhouse effect C. global warming D. deforestation III. WORD FORM Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). An accurate (0) prediction of the weather used to (1) …………… be a case of intelligent estimates that (2) …………… turned out to be wrong. Now the (3) of weather forecasters has improved and there is a (4) …………… for them to be taken more seriously. (5) …………… in the weather caused by (6) …………… and global warming have worrying (7)…………… , though. The weather has become (8)…………… with cold days in summer and hot days in winter. These (9)… in the temperature act as a (10) from other world problems such as war but this makes them no less of concern. PREDICT PRIMARY CONSIST REPUTE TEND DISTURB POLLUTE IMPLICATE PREDICT VARY DISTRACT