II Environmental Protection.

One of the favourite pursuits of people travelling for pleasure is visiting the famous beauty spots. But — alas увы! — the number of such spots decreases уменьшаются from year to year. Lakes, rivers and seas are pollut­ed , forests cut down, meadows луга littered with rubbish замусорен, the very air people breathe threatens disease and danger. The problem of envi­ronmental protection is one of the most urgent and crucial критических problems of today. The texts that follow deal with such important aspects of the problem as pollution загрязнение and litter мусором.