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Questions. Variant 2. 1. Choose the correct verb form: conditionals.. 2. Choose the correct verb form: all forms.
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1. American scrapyards are being filled with more paper and plastic. Who is now taking advantage of these extra recycled materials?
a. Chinese customers that have use for recycled materials and waste.
b. Companies that use recycled materials to make different kinds of goods.
c. Companies that create a lot of plastic and paper waste.
d. The owners of American scrapyards and collectors of plastic and paper waste.
2. What caused the amount of paper and plastic in American scrapyards to grow so quickly?
a. A U. S. regulation that rewards waste production.
b. An influx in companies that recycle materials.
c. aAChinese ban on importing waste.
d. A change in the way households recycle.
3. The lower prices for scrap could be a good thing for those who care about the environment. What evidence from the text supports this statement?
a. U. S. waste and recycling firms are working quickly to find new buyers for the extra scrap.
b. Lower scrap prices have made it easier for companies to use recycled material instead of new plastic.
c. More than two-thirds of America's wastepaper exports ended up in China last year, prior to the ban.
d. It could take a while for U. S. companies to build their ability to process all the extra scrap into new products.
4. Based on the article, what is a potential negative effect of a long-lasting Chinese ban on imported waste?
a. If recyclers can't find new buyers for all the extra scrap, they will have to invent new products that use recyclable materials.
b. If recyclers can't find new markets for all the extra scrap, the U. S. is likely to dispose of the scrap in the world’s oceans.
c. If recyclers can't find different buyers for all the extra scrap, companies in the U. S. may have to shoulder the costs.
d. If recyclers can't find new markets or storage places for all the extra scrap, some recyclable waste could end up in a landfill.
5. What is the main idea of this article?
a. Because of a Chinese ban on imported waste, the price of scrap is falling in the U. S., helping companies that use recycled materials to make new products.
b. Because of a U. S. ban on exported waste, the price of scrap is falling in the U. S., helping companies that use recycled materials to make new products.
c. Because of new U. S. regulations, the price of scrap is falling in the U. S., which could have negative consequences for the environment.
d. Because of new global regulations, the price of scrap is rising in the U. S., which could have negative consequences for U. S. businesses.
Variant 2
1. Choose the correct verb form: conditionals.
1. There is no doubt that if we do nothing, climate change (of any kind) will have / would havemajor effects on our daily lives. 2. If we realized / had realized the danger in the past, we would have taken more precautions. 3. Assuming the program costGBP 50 per teenager and that 35% of the participants would stop / would have stoppeddrinking alcohol. 4. We determined that the government would save / would have savedaround GBP 50 million in the health service over the next 60 years. 5. In hindsight, we believe that the tests would function / would have functionedmore effectively if we had taken more precautions in the cleaning process. 6. Thus the results would reflect / would have reflecteda considerable difference with respect to those values reported in the literature. 7. Participants guessed which of the four candidates will win / would win the election. 8. They wondered whether this result would be / would have beenaffected by other factors including… 9. After the tests, many participants claimed that they would answer / would have answereddifferently if the aim of the experiment (10) were explained / had been explained to them more clearly beforehand.
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2. Choose the correct verb form: all forms.
The three red flags that (1) are / wereidentified in our research — numbers of burps, zapping sessions, and Play station sessions — (2) can / shouldenable women to understand when they (3) need / neededto leave their partner. To counter any effects due to the nationality of the women involved (predominantly Italian in our sample), we (4) currently do / are currently doingtests in Russia. The results that we (5) obtained / have obtained so far for Russiaseem to confirm our initial findings, but with an additional fourth flag: time spent studying for examinations. In addition, the timeframe for the flags to be operative in Russia (6) is / wastwo months, rather than the three months reported in this paper. We (7) also plan / will also planto replicate our tests on a wider range of women and a longer time scale, thus increasing the sample base from 100 to 1, 000, and increasing the recording of daily life annoyances from six months to twelve months. Future research for the community at large (8) were to / willbe dedicated to doing analogous tests to enable men to see the signs of when they (9) can / couldleave their woman, and for employees to identify when they (10) would / shouldleave their current employment.
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