Macmillan English Grammar

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5 Rewrite each set of sentences as ONE sentence containing the word in capitals. Make any
other necessary changes.
a Every living organism needs energy to maintain its body. It needs energy to grow.
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b Omnivores are animals that eat plants. They eat other animals.


c Decomposers are organisms that eat dead animals and dead plants. They enable
other plants to feed off the dead materia!.

d Producers are plants that use photosynthesis to tum the energy of the Sun into
food. They are the lowest layer of the food web.

e Primary consumers are the animals that eat the producer layer. They are called
herbivores too.

f Secondary consumers eat the primary consumers and are camivores. Some of
them eat plants.

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6 Complete the text with one suitable word or phrase from page 176 in each space.


Wind power isanother way of producing electricity. a AllhotAqh.....wind power produces
just 0.4% of the world's electricity, many countries are building wind farms, b ....
this has many advantages over other methods. Compared to a power station using oil or coal,
c.... ... ,a wind farm produces no air pollution and wind itself will never run out.
d.. ,a wind farm only works well when it is built in the right place. Wind plants
generate electricity only when the wind blows, e .. ......if there is no wind, there is
no electricity. On the other hand,f... .. .... there are many advantages, there are
g.. some problems, h.. noise and the way the turbines spoi I the
look of the countryside. i wind farms are often built on mountains or near the
sea, the people who visit these places often feel that they have been spoilt by the wind
turbines. One solution to this problem may be to avoid building the farms on land, and where
possible to build them on man-made islands out at seaj k ..
this is a solution for countries with long coastlines, it is obviously not the answer everywhere.
I.. visitors to areas with wind farms usually complain about the noise and the
spoilt view, people who live nearby often get used to wind farms. There maym.... be problems
with wildlife. Birds, n ,are often killed by the turbines. o .. there are problems
with wind farms, they are clearly better for the environment than most other forms of power station.

1 Write one or two sentences with each word or phrase as they are used on page 176.
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2 Capy out five of the examples from page 176, and translate each one into your own language.
Need more practice?Goto the Review on page 192.

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