A Talk on Soil - Test 1

C2 Proficiency · Listening Sentence Completion · Cambridge English: Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

You will hear a student, Hannah Jorden, giving a short talk on the topic of soil. For questions 1–9, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

for thousands of years.

Hannah has found out that people have used soil as a

is putting pressure on the way we use soil.

Hannah says that the increase in

and can affect both plants and humans.

Pollutants from waste in the soil can enter the

in the soil.

Hannah has found evidence showing that waste pollution reduces the number of

which takes place in many countries.

The main cause of inorganic pollution is the

in humans.

Hannah is interested in the fact that organic pollutants can directly affect the

as a natural cause of acid rain.

Hannah gives the example of

has been of interest to the media.

Hannah has found that soil erosion caused by

Soil has become less fertile owing to the method known as

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