(5)plains fields land desert
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF
There have been plans to turn the Thresham Valley into a large (1) _________ to provide drinking water for the local area. The environmental and economic benefits of (2) _________the valley might outweigh the disadvantages, but several small (3) _________communities – two villages, three hamlets and two farms – in the valley will disappear.
A farmer was struck by (4) _________on Thursday evening, while mending a fence in one of his (5) _________. He said: ‘It was (6) _________ slightly when I went out, but I’d checked the weather (7) _________and it hadn’t said there was going to be a thunderstorm.’
A supermarket is promoting shoppers to save bags. ‘For every new bag we make, the factory has to pump out more industrial (8) _________and that’s increasing pollution in the (9) _________area. We want to reduce the bags we make each year. Customers who (10) _________their bags by bringing them to our supermarket will get a price drop.’
Professor Angela Lucini from Davington University has claimed that (11) _________warming is not caused by human disregard for the (12) _________. She argues that large-scale changes in the Mediterranean (13) _________, for example, have taken place ever since the world was formed. ‘We weren’t responsible for the fact the dinosaurs became (14) _________, so why are we responsible for all environmental problems now?’
Councillor Davina Forrest is calling for a ban on the use of coal fires at home. ‘There is no doubt that if domestic chimneys stopped pumping out (15) _________ into the atmosphere, the (16) _________we’d all be breathing would be much (17) _________.’
There have been plans to turn the Thresham Valley into a large (1) _________ to provide drinking water for the local area. The environmental and economic benefits of (2) _________the valley might outweigh the disadvantages, but several small (3) _________communities – two villages, three hamlets and two farms – in the valley will disappear.
A farmer was struck by (4) _________on Thursday evening, while mending a fence in one of his (5) _________. He said: ‘It was (6) _________ slightly when I went out, but I’d checked the weather (7) _________and it hadn’t said there was going to be a thunderstorm.’
A supermarket is promoting shoppers to save bags. ‘For every new bag we make, the factory has to pump out more industrial (8) _________and that’s increasing pollution in the (9) _________area. We want to reduce the bags we make each year. Customers who (10) _________their bags by bringing them to our supermarket will get a price drop.’
Professor Angela Lucini from Davington University has claimed that (11) _________warming is not caused by human disregard for the (12) _________. She argues that large-scale changes in the Mediterranean (13) _________, for example, have taken place ever since the world was formed. ‘We weren’t responsible for the fact the dinosaurs became (14) _________, so why are we responsible for all environmental problems now?’
Councillor Davina Forrest is calling for a ban on the use of coal fires at home. ‘There is no doubt that if domestic chimneys stopped pumping out (15) _________ into the atmosphere, the (16) _________we’d all be breathing would be much (17) _________.’
(5)
A. plains
B. fields
C. land
D. desert
Đáp án B
Fields: (n) cánh đồng
