Recently more and more attention has been focused to S1. ______the problem of preserving t

Recently more and more attention has been focused to S1. ______

the problem of preserving the environment. The fact that a

Government Ministry being called the Department of the S2. ______

Environment has been created shows how unimportant the S3. ______

issue is considered to be.

Over the past thirty years or so the quality of many

people's lives have deteriorated in some respects because of S4. ______

technological progress. Those people living near airports are

constantly attacked by the noise of increasingly larger and

more powerful jet aircraft taken off and landing. The motor S5. ______

car has been responsible for many changes in the

environment. On the one hand it has brought mobility to

millions of people, but on the other it has taken rise to the S6. ______

construction of more noisy roads and has polluted the

atmosphere with exhaust fumes. While towns and cities have

become larger and uglier and more dense populated the S7. ______

rural areas have lost most of their population owing to the

need for less workers in agriculture. The countryside has S8. ______

also been affected by the large scale use of insecticides.

For one thing the killing of insects has resulted from a loss S9. ______

of balance in the ecology. Many people are afraid that fruit

and vegetables sprayed with chemicals may have some

poisonous effect on the people who eat it. S10. ______

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