C. Answer the questions to Part 2
1. Why did Crosby Menzies walk away from a marketing job?
2. What is parmaculture?
3. What is the principle of a solar cooker work? What is it compared to?
4. What provides stability and flexibility of a solar cooker?
5. What was Crosby's inspiration?
6. How do solar ovens look like? What can they do?
7. What are a solar oven's advantages compared to a solar cooker?
8. How dangerous can other stoves be for African families?
9. What is the positive effect of new cookers on families' lives?
10. How did Crosby Menzies promote his products?
11. What was some people's first reaction to solar cookers?
12. What difference did people notice after the demonstration?
13. What was the major challenge concerning solar cookers and ovens?
14. What paradox did Crosby Menzies notice in the poorest slums of Africa?
15. What does Crosby Menzies see in the near future of Africa?
D. True or False? (Use the facts and the keywords from the text to prove and specify your viewpoint)
1. Crosby Menzies walked away from his marketing job in year 2000.
2. Crosby Menzies studied agriculture.
3. Crosby Menzies was an expert in solar energy technology.
4. Crosby Menzies experimented with the design of solar cooker for more than a decade.
5. People couldn't believe in the effectiveness of solar cookers and stoves.
6. The problem of solar cooker's high cost for African people was solved through the system of discounts.
VOCABULARY EXERCISES
1. Choose the word closest in meaning to a boldfaced one
| 1)decision | A voice | B result | C cause |
| 2)sustainable | A continual | B vivid | C substantial |
| 3) development | A improvement | B pollution | C life |
| 4) establish | A find | B fulfill | C create |
| 5) organic | A life | B biological | C live |
| 6) manufacture | A fabricate | B power | C charge |
| 7) distribute | A take | B circulate | C establish |
| 8) fail | A negative | B miss | C get |
| 9) feasible | A unreal | B beneficial | C negative |
| 10) suitable | A bad | B good | C convenient |
| 11) shape | A form | B box | C case good |
| 12) cause | A face | B origin | C solve |
| 13) pollution | A grease | B air | C deterioration |
| 14) eliminate | A exclude | B get | C give |
| 15) reduce | A get | B plummet | C diminish |
| 16) convince | A listen | B assure | C solve |
| 17) afford | A withdraw | B solve | C allow |
| 18) challenge | A answer | B question | C cause |
| 19) solve | A decide | B form | C give |
| 20) fulfill | A arrange | B begin | C accomplish |
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Choose the word opposite in meaning to a boldfaced one
| 1) decision | A beginning | B opening | C exit |
| 2) sustainable | A permanent | B vivid | C temporary |
| 3) development | A rise | B decline | C deadlock |
| 4) establish | A destroy | B grow | C distribute |
| 5) organic | A trivial | B live | C dead |
| 6) manufacture | A finish | B demolish | C produce |
| 7) distribute | A give | B get | C collect |
| 8) fail | A negative | B solve | C achieve |
| 9) feasible | A disadvantageous | B possible | C real |
| 10) suitable | A good | B possible | C inconvenient |
| 11) shape | A similarity | B difference | C ordinary |
| 12) cause | A result | B lead | C face |
| 13) pollution | A dirt | B spot | C cleanliness |
| 14) eliminate | A start | B include | C finish |
| 15) reduce | A develop | B take | C finish |
| 16) convince | A discourage | B talk | C listen |
| 17) afford | A take | B solve | C reject |
| 18) challenge | A difficulty | B answer | C problem |
| 19) solve | A do | B decide | C confuse |
| 20) fulfill | A cancel | B begin | C start |
Complete each sentence with a word from the box
| decision | distribute | pollution |
| sustainable | fulfill | eliminate |
| development | feasible | reduce |
| established | suitable | convince |
| solve | challenges | afford |
| manufactures | cause | failed |
1. The committee should make its ______________________ later this week.
2. Are western nations ready to meet the enormous environmental ______________________ that lie ahead?
3. Try to ______________________ the amount of fat in your diet.
4. It seems to be only one ______________________ solution.
5. The company __________________ in its attempt to use install new equipment.
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6. The ______________________ rate of local rivers is increasing.
7. The company was ______________________ in 1860.
8. The firm ______________________ women's clothing.
9. We can help you ______________________ your financial problems.
10. Most of Japan's manufacturers ______________________ their products through separate wholesale companies.
11. The government launched some projects to ______________________ the need for people to damage.
12. ______________________ economic growth is striking the observers.
13. You have to ___________________ people you're the right person for the job.
14. The firm designed solar ovens ______________________ for cooking.
15. They hope to ______________________ their objectives by 2015.
16. Ovens work at very low temperatures won’t ______________________ fire.
17. Scientists are not sure how they are able to ______________________ such expensive technologies.
18. His work is mainly in software ______________________.
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