miercuri, 21 martie 2012

Oral examination subjects--solved variants

3. Damage of the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living. Discuss.
The environment suffers because of the growth of the population. There are so many people living in urban areas lately, big cities get bigger and bigger each day. People realise that they need more things to make their lives more comfortable.
We watch on TV every day commercials that try to persuade us to buy new things for our houses, new gadgets for our computers, new and more comfortable cars. But what do we do with all the old stuff that we don’t need any more? Well, we might throw them away not realising that we damage the environment.
We love to go shopping at the new, big and welcoming supermarkets or malls. We buy so many products at once. We put them in the shopping bags we get for free at the checkout. But what we don’t realise is that all those plastic bags destroy the environment because they take between 20 and 1,000 years to break down and are able to float and blow long distances within our environment. While they exist in our environment, they choke, suffocate, and cause intestinal blockage in thousands of animals including birds, fish, whales, turtles and many other living creatures.
Because we want to improve our living standards we use the earth’s resources too quickly, too fast and sometimes on unnecessary things. Cars consume too much gas; home appliances consume too much electricity. We cut down the forests that need thousands of years to grow back, and the worst part is, that we don’t try to find quickly enough ways to replace everything we consume. We don’t even care about all the trees we cut and never think to plant new ones, destroying our source of clean air and oxygen.
Pollution is one of the main factors that destroy our environment. This is all due to global industrialization. Big factories don’t even think about closing down and the methods they find to cut down pollution are not fast enough for the already over-polluted cities. 
We should be more aware of our environment and try to think that there are future generations to come after us, and they also need to enjoy their lives as much as we do.

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