Reading comprehension

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READING SKILL
P2
Main idea: Rural to urban migration is global trend

Supporting detail: In 1900, 10% population lived in cities

Supporting detail:Next year, pp over 10 million lives in cities

P3
Main idea: Megacities brought environment and social problems

Supporting detail:Cities occupy 2 % of the land but consume ¾ of the resource

Supporting detail:Pollution problem related to solid waste, rives of toxic sewage

P4 
Main idea: returning to countryside is not an option

Supporting detail: Dividing land for individual self-sufficiency would create new
disasters.

            Supporting detail: Cities are actually more efficient for energy production,
recycling, and transportation.

P5

Main Idea: Government planners are aware of the problems facing megacities and
are planning to fix them.

Supporting detail: Governments approaches: more recycling and fewer cars.

Supporting detail: Planners are redesigning cities to integrate work and living and
thereby increase use of public transport

P6

  Main Idea: Many cities already have impressive eco-projects.

Supporting detail: Melbourne

Supporting detail: Berlin

P7

Main Idea: Top planning priority is cut car use

Supporting detail: Cars require massive networks.

Supporting detail: People should be able to live close to work and public
transportation

P8

Main Idea: Shanty towns are a possible ecological model for future cities.

Supporting detail: They’re high-density and pedestrianized.

Supporting detail: Their residents recycle things from big cities.

P9

Main Idea: Perhaps we can combine the spontaneously-created shanty town

model with a carefully planned infrastructure.

Supporting detail: Cities could retain their advantageous economy of scale.

Supporting detail: Cities could recycle more efficiently and be more flexible
for people to live in.

VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES

1 communicative

2 communicator

3 communication

4 communications

5 communicate

6 communicable
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1 defined

2 status

3 communications

4 rely. sources

5 survived

6 extracting

7 network

8 despite, major.  Globe