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All life is sound. We are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises (51)__________by nature and everything in it. For thousands of years man has been speaking and singing, and (52)_________his wonderfully constructed ear, perceiving sounds and noises, although they are but a small part of the inconceivable wealth of sounds filling the universe. Childrer everywhere and without (53)___________are born with musical abilities, with voices, and with hearing. The difference lies (54)________in what they do with these gifts. That (55)____________according to temperament upbringing nationality, and time.

Nature itself is full of sound, full of music. Musical sounds existed millions of years before there was a human ear to hear (56)__________: the soft bubbling of the water, the roll of thunder, the whistling and rustling oi leaves in the wind and (57)_______knows how many other audible manifestion of nature. Man was born (58)________a world of sound. Thunder filled him with fear and became a symbol of supernatural (59)__________. In the roar of the wind he heard the voices of demons. Dwellers at the seashore (60)__________the temper of the gods by the sound of the waves. Religious rites and music were inseparable at the dawn of humanity. 

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Conserving The World's Natural Resources

In the decade of the 1970s, the United Nations organised several important meetings on the human environment to study a very serious problem. We humans are destroying the world around us. We are using up all of our natural resources. We must learn to conserve them, or life will be very bad for our children and our grandchildren.

There are several major parts to this problem.

Population. Most problems of the environment come from population growth. In 1700 there were 625 million people in the world. In 1900 there were 1.6 billion. In 1950 2.5 billion, and in 1980 4.4 billion. In the year 2010 there will be well over 6 billion. More people need more water, more food, more wood, and more petroleum.

Distribution. Scientists say there is enough water in the world for everyone, but some countries have a lot of water and some have only a little. Some areas get all their rain during one season. The rest of the year is dry. There are huge forests in the Amazon area of Brazil. In other parts of the world there is only desert. 

Petroleum. We are using up the world's petroleum. We use it in our cars and to heat our buildings in winter.

Farmers use petrochemicals to make the soil rich. They use to kill insects that eat plants. These chemicals go into rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of people also die from these chemicals every year. Chemicals also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this polluted air to other countries and other continents.

Poverty. Poor farmers use the same land over and over. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmer must have food this year. Poor people cut down trees for firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land becomes desert. However, people need wood to cook their food now. Poor people cannot save the environment for the future.

We now have the information and the ability to solve these huge problems. However, this is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to conserve the world's resources. No one controls the future, but we all help make it.

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Language and Languages

A language is a system of sounds, gestures, or characters used by , humans to communicate their ideas and feelings. There are about 4,000 spoken languages in the world. Some are spoken by millions of people. Other languages have only a few speakers.

All languages have rules for forming words and for ordering those words in meaningful sentences. In written languages, meaning is expressed through a system of characters and rules for combining those characters. In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds and rules for combining those sounds. Many deaf people use sign languages, irl which gestures do the work of the sound system of spoken languages.

Word order is more important in English than it is in some other languages, such as Russian. The sound system is very important in Chinese and in many languages spoken in West Africa. 

Languages are always changing, but they change very slowly. People invent new words for their language, borrow words from other languages. and change the meanings of words as needed. For example, the English word byte was invented by computer specialists in 1959. The English word tomato was borrowed from Nahuatl, an American Indian language spoken in Mexico. The English word meat once referred to food in general.

There are several major language families in the world. The languages in each family are related, and scientists think they came from the same parent family. Language families come in different sizes. The Austronesian family contains at least 500 languages, including Pilipino, Malay, and Maori, The Basque language, spoken in northern Spain is the only member of its language family.

The Indo-European language family contains 55 languages, including English. German, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi are also Indo-European languages.

Another language family is Sino-Tibetan, which includes Chinese, Burmese, and Tibetan. The Afro-Asiatic family includes Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic. There are about 150 American Indian languages spoken today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than 50 language families.

People learn languages by listening, copying what they hear, and using the language. Most children learn their first languages easily — and sometimes other languages as well. Adults often must work harder at learning a second language