Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 517.

Look through the sentences and decide which of them are True(T), False (F).

a) China`s economic growth doesn`t threaten the environment.

b) The China`s situation is unique.

c) The economy of modern China is very similar to those of Japan and South Korea, but it faces far more complicated problems.

d) A sharp worsening of air and water pollution happens because of the contribution of heavy industries into the country`s economic growth.

e) In 2007, China caught up with the United States as the world's biggest producer of emissions of greenhouse gases.

f) The challenges are also strikingly dofferent from those that Japan's economyexperienced as it entered the 1970s.

g) Environmental problems in Japan caused domestic conflicts.

h) It used to be difficult to see the blue sky in industrial cities of Japan, and almost nothing changed.

i) Chinese leaders see two biggest obstacles the economy must now overcome: inflation and the environment.

j) Chinese public finances can`t support the economy during its environmental cleanup.

a) The worldwide focus on the country during the recent _______ gave greater prominence than ever to the environmental issues.

1. Olympic Games

2. SCO Summit in Beijing

b) Japan and _______scenarios of environmental problems are very alike with the Chinese one.

1. South Korea

2. Western countries

c) A country that provides an excellent example of how it can come to grips with its environmental problems is _______.

1. Taiwan

2. Japan

d) China moved from _______ caused not only by prices for oil and food but also increasing wages in the past two years.

1. from decrease in the level of prices to quite rapid increase

2. from increase of the level of prices to quite rapid dcrease

e) Up to 2007 China's energy intensity (energy used per unit of GDP) had been ________ for two decades.

1. rising

2. declining

f) In 1970 under the Bretton Woods system, Japan`s yen enjoyed a _______ rate against the dollar.

1. steady

2. floating

g) Most of the pollution in Japan in 1970s was in _____________.

1. water and air

2. the streets and shores.

h) Nowadays in Japan people wear face masks only when they _________.

1. can`t breathe

2. are ill

i) The Japanese government's strong ________ position enabled it to run growth-supporting deficits for much of the next decade.

1. social

2. financial

j) Without great support from the government over local officials, ______________will not have any effect in China.

1. environmental regulations

2. macroeconomic laws