Our country. Our environment. There are many big and small rivers, green forests, high mountains, lakes and seas in Russia we must protect. There are some laws and decisions on the environmental problem. We have state organizations which pay attention to it. The international conventions pay much attention to the control of pollution too.
There are a lot of industrial enterprises in our country that is why we can’t ignore the problem of the protection of our environment. We have the main aim of the protection - our environment must be clean. What must we do for it? We have to control atmospheric and water pollution, to study the man’s influence on the climate. The pollution of the environment influences the life of animals, plants and our human life. If we don’t use chemicals in the proper way we’ll pollute our environment.
Our plants and factories put their waste materials into water and atmosphere and pollute the environment. There are many kinds of transport in our big cities that is why we must pay attention to the protection of our nature and the health of the people.
Radiation. Now it has become one of the main problems. It is not good for health of people. Many people died from radiation in Chernobyl. It was a tragedy. The other problem is an earthquake. We know about some terrible earthquakes in Armenia. Our scientists try to forecast earthquakes, and then we can protect ourselves from them.
Fortunately, it’s not too late to solve environmental problems. We have time, money and even technologies to make our planet a better, cleaner and safer place. We can plant trees and create parks for endangered species. We can recycle litter. Individuals and groups of people can work together to persuade enterprises to stop polluting activities.
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How can we protect our environment?
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1. They want the information to be stored.
2. We are glad to have invited this engineer.
3. About 180 million computers were expected to be replaced.
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1. Any person spending a lot of time in front of a computer can feel eye fatigue.
2. When asked they input the data.
3. The operator being busy, we went home.
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1. If I have time, I will think about installing the software.
2. If I were you, I would use the more powerful video card.
3. If you had bought a monitor with a high resolution, you would have got a clear image on your screen.
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APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS
Computers are sure to have become commonplace in homes, offices, schools, shops, research institutes, plants. The use of computers in business, industry and communication services is widespread today. Computer-controlled robots turn out to improve the quality of manufactured products and to increase the productivity of industry. Computers can control the work of power stations, plants and docks.
An educated man of today needs to have at least some significant knowledge about science, and at least a little significant knowledge about computers, and some active experience with a computer being desirable.
We know computers to have found application in astronomy and upper atmosphere research, weather forecasting. It is interesting to note that computers are widely used in medicine, they having become valuable medical diagnostic tools. The work of banks also depends on computer terminal for millions of daily operations. If there were no terminals, it would be impossible to make inquiries about bank accounts of its customers.
Not long ago the only electronic thing on most cars was the radio. Nowadays on-board computers display such information as car speed, fuel level and can control various engine functions like heating, cooling, oil level.
Computers form a part of many military systems including communications and fire control. They are applied for automatic piloting and automatic navigation. Space exploration is reported to depend on computers for guidance and research.
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What is the role of computers in our life?
ВАРИАНТ III