Astronaut Sally Ride When Sally Ride was just 9 years old, her family toured Europe for entire year and then returned home to Encino,
California.
Once back at school, Sally wanted to be a winner in sports and at school. In her teens she was a
champion Junior Tennis Player. She was ranked number eighteen among the best young tennis players in the
country when she was 18. Sally always liked studying science. When she went to college, she studied
astrophysics. Astrophysics is the science of stars and planets. She liked great literature too. She graduated from
college with two degrees. The other degree was in English. She stayed longer in college and became Dr. Sally
Ride. She was a specialist in astrophysics. Sally was interested in joining NASA as an astronaut. She was chosen
as one of six women in the astronaut dass in 1978. She studied at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
She learned how to fly military jets as part of her training. In 1982 Sally Ride was selected to go on the second
challenger space flight. She would be the first American woman to go into space. Sally Ride spent six days in
space orbiting the Earth. Later Sally Ride said, "the thing that I'll remember most about the flight is that it was
fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I will ever have fun in my life."
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People have always polluted the environment. However, until recently, pollution was not a serious problem. People lived in sparsely populated agricultural areas, they were not polluting cars. With the development of crowded industrial cities where large amounts of waste are dumped on a small area, this problem became much more serious. Automobiles and other new inventions make pollution more and more intense. In the late 60-ies people began to feel alarmed at the danger of environmental pollution. Air, water and soil are necessary for existence of all living beings. However, polluted air can cause illness and even death. Polluted water kills fish and other marine animals. On contaminated soil can not be cultivated food crops. In addition, environmental pollution spoils the natural beauty of our planet. The problem of environmental pollution is as complicated as serious. Cars pollute the air, but give people the opportunity of movement. Factories pollute the air and water but they provide jobs for people and produce necessary goods. Fertilizers and pesticides are important for agriculture, but they can ruin soil. Thus, people would have to stop using many useful things if they wanted to end pollution immediately. Most people, of course, doesn't want that. However, pollution can be reduced gradually. Scientists and engineers can find ways to reduce harmful emissions from cars and factories. The government could issue laws that would make enterprises take measures to reduce pollution. Individuals and groups of people can work together to persuade enterprises to stop activities causing environmental pollution

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Environmental Pollution. Загрязнение окружающей среды.

People have always polluted their surroundings. But until now pollution was not such a serious problem. People lived in uncrowded rural areas and did not have pollution — causing machines. With the development of crowded industrial cities which put huge amounts of pollutants into small areas, the problem has become more important.

Automobiles and other new inventions make pollution steadily worse. Since the late 1960's people have become alarmed with the danger of pollution.

Air, water, and soil are necessary for existence of all living things. But polluted air can cause illness, and even death. Polluted water kills fish and other marine life. On polluted soil, food can not be grown. In addition environmental pollution spoils the natural beauty of our planet.

Pollution is as complicated as serious problem. Automobiles are polluting the air but they provide transportation for the people. Factories pollute the air and the water but they provide jobs for people and produce necessary goods. Fertilizers and pesticides are important for growing crops but they can ruin soil.

Thus, people would have to stop using many useful things if they wanted to end pollution immediately. Most people do not want that of course. But pollution can be reduced gradually.

Scientists and engineers can find the ways to reduce pollution from automobiles and factories. Government can pass the laws that would make enterprises take measures for reducing of pollution. Individuals and groups of people can work together to persuade enterprises to stop polluting activities.