Аудіододаток контрольної роботи з теми "Environment"

Task 1. Listening

Look at the six sentences for this part. You will hear two local politicians, a man called Robin and a woman called Lisa, talking about recycling in their town. Decide if the sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, put “+”. If it is not correct, put “-“.

1. Robin is surprised by how much recycling people do in his town.

2. Lisa thinks it takes too long to recycle metal.

3. Robin believes there should be more bottle banks.

4. Lisa thinks that people are making good progress with paper recycling.

5. Robin and Lisa agree that people need more information about plastic.

6. Robin thinks that people should pay less to use public transport.

Lisa: Right, we need to look at the facts and figures about our town’s recycling efforts this year.

Robin: I guess we’ve still got a long way to go before we reach our goal of 50 per cent recycling of waste collected from people’s homes.

Lisa: Actually, we aren’t as far away from what we want to achieve as that. I believe we’re already managing to recycle about 45 per cent.

Robin: That’s better than I expected. So, shall we start with metal? We’re doing OK – a large number of cans are recycled each year, but we could encourage people to do more. They can be recycled quickly and they’re ready to use again in six weeks.

Lisa: It’s a pity the companies which recycle them can’t do it in half the time.

Robin:  I know.

Lisa: How about progress on the recycling of glass? I think we could improve on that, too. There aren’t enough bins for people to take their empty bottles to.

Robin: Well, it’s all about money, isn’t it? New bins aren’t cheap. Moving on… Let’s look at the recycling of paper. The town’s doing pretty well on that. The average person uses 38 kilos of newspaper every year – and we’re recycling over half of it.

Lisa: Really? That’s an improvement on last year. Now, plastic. That’s a different story. People are throwing too much away.

Robin: It isn’t that there’s no information about how dangerous plastic is to the environment – there’s plenty! Maybe we should think about introducing fines for people who put it in ordinary bins instead of recycling ones.

Lisa: That’s not a bad idea. Shall we finish with traffic? We’ve managed to cut air pollution by promoting the car share plan. More people are travelling together to work.

Robin: That’s good, but I thought we were trying to reduce fares. They’re still too high, which is a shame. We need to encourage more people to use our new, cleaner buses!