Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего 1–6 и утверждениями, данными в списке А–G. Используйте каждую букву, обозначающую утверждение, толькоодинраз. Взаданииестьоднолишнееутверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
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Speaker 1 My Dad always says that the weather was different when he was young. The skies were often blue from horizon to horizon, not always cloudy like now. The English summers were long and warm and in winter there would be decent snow especially in January and February. He says that this has convinced him that climate change is real. But I’m not sure. Maybe he just remembers the best days of his childhood and conveniently forgets the horrid days.
Speaker 2 The difference between weather and climate is simply time. The weather is what is happening outside right now and the climate is how the atmosphere behaves over relatively long periods of time. I think people talk too casually about climate change. The climate has always been changing since the world was formed. What is important is how we protect the planet as much as possible from the ravages of pollution. But the climate will continue to change regardless.
Speaker 3 Moonbows are rare. They occur when the moon is full but low in the sky and its rays refract through the spray from waterfalls. Haloes are rings formed around the sun when ice crystals refract light in the upper atmosphere. The bright areas in the arcs are called sundogs. But most dramatic of all are fire rainbows when the sun shines through ice crystals held in high altitude cirrus cloud. It is a great disappointment to me that I have seen none of these but I live in hope.
Speaker 4 What happens outside this week or next week has nothing to do with the role of humans in causing climate change. It is professionally irresponsible for scientists to claim that some weather observed these days is ‘consistent with’ long term predictions for climate change. Any weather and all weather patterns can ‘fit’ long term predictions. What is needed is less headline grabbing statements that frighten everyone to death and more serious study of long term records.
Speaker 5 The US Environmental Protection agency has an interesting website It supports the view that the rate of unnatural climate change can be reduced by positive action. It challenges the idea that as individuals we are powerless to help our planet. In fact, the site demonstrates that if we all individually change our lives just in small ways, it could make a very big difference to our planet.
Speaker 6 In England, when it rains hard, we often say that it’s raining ‘cats and dogs’. But actually there have been many cases of so called ‘non-aqueous rain’ usually where birds or fish fall like rain. In 1939 in Wiltshire, England, there was a shower of frogs and in 1983, in Dorset, lumps of coal fell from the sky. There are different opinions as to why this happens but as far as I know, so far, no actual cats or dogs fell from the sky! That really would fuel the discussion on climate change.
Утверждение:
A. Little changes in our lives can change our Mother Earth. B. Climate change predictions can be more accurate. C. Human memory can play tricks. D. The difference between the language and real life. E. It changed, changes and will change. F. We will never see it again. G. They are rare and unforgettable views.
