Why is the price of drinking water going up?

4. the number of university students

5. my sister's husband

6. the baby's weight

7. Sunday newspapers

8. the number of road accidents

9. the price of air tickets
10. the Atlantic Ocean

Which one is different? Why? Example:

milk tomato steak chair wine Chair – not food or drink

1. milk wine water juice apple

2. chair TV fridge bus sofa

3. chair TV fridge sofa armchair

4. tall intelligent fair handsome

5. divorced married single happy

6. April February Thursday September

7. Africa America Japan Europe Asia

8. airport kitchen bathroom bedroom

О Read this with a dictionary. WE ARE GETTING HAPPIER

People are getting happier. According to a recent report from the Western Statistics Office, 73% of people say that they are happy 'most of the time', compared with only 47% at the beginning of the century. Perhaps this is partly because the world is less crowded: the Western population is going down by about 1.3% per year. And life expectancy is increasing: in 1970, men lived for an average of 69 years and women 75; both sexes now can expect to live for 113 years. We are getting richer, too. The average income in 2096 was 146,000 Western Credits - twice as much as in the year 2018.

The biochemical revolution is nearly complete: 94% of the population is now green. (For some reason only 83% have green hair, but scientists expect to solve the last remaining problems by the year 2100.)

Not everything is getting better, though. The climate is still changing for the worse, and sea levels are continuing to rise. If average temperatures go on increasing, scientists are afraid that more of the world's capitals will go the same way as London, Paris and New York. Perhaps one day we will all have to move to the mountains.

Religious belief is becoming much less common. In 2018, 65% of Western Federation citizens said that they believed in God; in 2096 the figure was only 24%, and only half of these went to church regularly. (Figures from the WSO Annual Report, July 2098)

(From The Times, 18 July 2098)

6 Write a similar report from The Times for 18 July 2198.

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