READING (THE SECOND TERM) » В1 (2)

2. Match the questions (a—f) to the passages (1—4). There are two extra questions you don't need to use. 1) Rainer Nolvak is a businessman from Estonia, which is famous for its wonderful forests and suburban areas. But there is a problem that the country faced. The woods of the country were full of waste and garbage because local people had left it there. Rainer together with his friends decided to protect the environment. They wanted to remove all the rubbish in Estonia. The problem was that nearly half of the country is covered with beautifyl forests that, as a result of illegal dropping of garbage, became polluted. It started when the country was part of the former Soviet Union. Forests were not private property and belonged to the state. D) What was the main cause of the problem? 2) At the beginning it was necessary to help people understand the problem. The most difficult thing was that garbage was seen as an environmental problem, rather than people's attitude to nature. Local people did not care about nature and for them garbage was not a problem at all. Rainer Nolvak gathered together a team of 15 friends. They cared very much about nature and decided to make a project about cleaning. C) Who was involved in the project? 3) Rainer and his friends called the project «Let's Do lt». It was widely supported by the authorities, such as the Ministry of the Environment, different organisations, celebrities and even the President of Estonia joined them. The Estonians got acquainted with the programme of cleaning on television and over the Internet. A) Who was the project supported by? 4) Activists used their mobile phones to mark places where garbage was. GPS, the Global Positioning System, helped them. The next step was to mark contaminated places on the map. The map was the source of information for other volunteers. They could estimate the rate of pollution and size of the area. E) How was the computer programme used for the project?