Grammar.
Task 1.
Read the text below and circle the letter next to the word or phrase, which best completes each sentence.
The first has been done for you as an example (0).
A DEEPER SHADE OF GREEN
Listen carefully to Bill McKibben – author of the best seller The End of Nature – and you’ll hear an upsetting message __(0)__ transforms the idea of what “green” can mean.
We finally started to understand what we are in __(1)__. Exactly 12 months ago, Kerry Emanuel published a paper in Nature showing that hurricanes __(2)__ in strength for a generation. It __(3)__ attract widespread attention for a few weeks – not until Katrina roared across the Gulf of Mexico and __(4)__ half a million people refugees. The scenario kept __(5)__: Rita choking highways with __(6)__ Texans; Wilma __(7)__ an Atlantic Ocean record for barometric lows; Zeta spinning on New Year’s Day.
In January, three significant announcements __(8)__. First, British scientist James Lovelack published an essay predicting that w...