Listen to the text "Rubbish".

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Match the parts. Write the number (1, 2, 3...)

The first part:

1. They don’t seem to care about the

2. Rivers are full of plastic

3. I don’t know why people can’t throw their

The second part:

1) everywhere these days.
2) almost falling over it.
3) rubbish away properly.
4) respect for others.
5) environment either.
6) every country.
7) there are rubbish bins everywhere.
8) bags and bottles.
9) look ugly.
10) people won’t see them.
11) outside their house.
12) will pick it up.

Thesituation has changed. Ben, seeing the gusto with which Tom is painting the fence, gradually began to change in the face and finally asked Tom to give a try to paint him. Tom, exulting in the soul, refused, putting the responsibility of a Commission. Then Ben finally fell into the trap. He gave Tom an Apple, if only he allowed little to whitewash a fence.
With the rest of the boys came up to laugh at Tom, was the same.
... When Ben was tired, Tom sold the next turn to Billy Fisher for a used kite, and when he got tired of bleach, johnny Miller bought the place for a dead rat with a rope, to make it easier to turn, etc. etc., hour by hour. By mid-day the poor boy close to poverty, That he became a rich man and was smothered in luxury...
... Tom and I have spent all this time doing nothing and having fun, and the fence was covered with lime in three layers! If he didn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in town...

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