Упражнение 14 на лексику для сдачи огэ по английскому.
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As Selfish as Modern People
We believe that in old times people were “environmentally __FRIEND__” and lived in harmony with nature. Some people (such as the __AMERICA__ Indians) respected and protected their environment. But there are many examples of ancient people who carelessly destroyed the land they inhabited.
The great city of Ur was destroyed by floods because people cut down the trees __REGULAR__ on the bank of their river to use for their fires. Although the Bible says that the cause of the floods was the anger of God, the real cause of the flood was probably __ENVIRONMENT__ damage by man.
The dodo was a large bird, rather like a turkey, that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean. When the first man arrived in Mauritius in the early 16th century, they found that the dodos were not afraid of people. The __SETTLE__ killed dodos partly for food and partly for sport. Less than 200 years after the first man settlement on Mauritius, the last dodo was dead. Only the expression ‘as dead as a dodo’ lives in the __ENGLAND__ language.
As Selfish as Modern People
We believe that in old times people were “environmentally FRIENDLY” and lived in harmony with nature. Some people (such as the AMERICAN Indians) respected and protected their environment. But there are many examples of ancient people who carelessly destroyed the land they inhabited.
The great city of Ur was destroyed by floods because people cut down the trees REGULARLY on the bank of their river to use for their fires. Although the Bible says that the cause of the floods was the anger of God, the real cause of the flood was probably ENVIRONMENTAL damage by man.
The dodo was a large bird, rather like a turkey, that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean. When the first man arrived in Mauritius in the early 16th century, they found that the dodos were not afraid of people. The SETTLERS killed dodos partly for food and partly for sport. Less than 200 years after the first man settlement on Mauritius, the last dodo was dead. Only the expression ‘as dead as a dodo’ lives in the ENGLISH language.
