Daily Reading Practice · Nonfiction passage
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Plastic is one of the most usefuluseful (adj)Able to be used for a practical purpose.≈ Synonym: practical🇺🇿UZ: foydali🇷🇺RU: полезный materials ever inventedinvent (verb)Created or designed something for the first time.≈ Synonym: created🇺🇿UZ: ixtiro qilingan🇷🇺RU: изобретён. It is lightlight (adj)Not heavy; low in weight.≈ Synonym: lightweight🇺🇿UZ: yengil🇷🇺RU: лёгкий, strongstrong (adj)Able to withstand force without breaking.≈ Synonym: durable🇺🇿UZ: mustahkam🇷🇺RU: прочный, and cheapcheap (adj)Costing little money.≈ Synonym: inexpensive🇺🇿UZ: arzon🇷🇺RU: дешёвый to produceproduce (verb)To make or manufacture something.≈ Synonym: manufacture🇺🇿UZ: ishlab chiqarmoq🇷🇺RU: производить. Because of this, it is used to make many of the things we use every day, such as bagsbag (noun)Containers made of flexible material for carrying things.≈ Synonym: sacks🇺🇿UZ: sumkalar🇷🇺RU: пакеты, bottlesbottle (noun)Containers with a narrow neck for holding liquids.≈ Synonym: containers🇺🇿UZ: shishalar🇷🇺RU: бутылки, and food packagingpackaging (noun)Materials used to wrap or contain products.≈ Synonym: wrapping🇺🇿UZ: qadoqlash🇷🇺RU: упаковка. However, plastic also causes seriousserious (adj)Significant or worrying in nature.≈ Synonym: grave🇺🇿UZ: jiddiy🇷🇺RU: серьёзный problems for the environmentenvironment (noun)The natural world; surroundings in which we live.≈ Synonym: surroundings🇺🇿UZ: atrof-muhit🇷🇺RU: окружающая среда.
One of the biggest problems with plastic is that it does not break downbreak down (phrasal verb)To decompose into simpler parts naturally.≈ Synonym: decompose🇺🇿UZ: parchalanmoq🇷🇺RU: разлагаться easily. A plastic bag, for example, can take hundreds of years to disappeardisappear (verb)To stop being visible or existing.≈ Synonym: vanish🇺🇿UZ: yo'qolmoq🇷🇺RU: исчезать. During that time, it can harmharm (verb)To cause damage or injury.≈ Synonym: damage🇺🇿UZ: zarar yetkazmoq🇷🇺RU: вредить wildlifewildlife (noun)Animals living in their natural habitat.≈ Synonym: fauna🇺🇿UZ: yovvoyi tabiat🇷🇺RU: дикая природа. Animals like birds and turtles sometimes mistakemistake (verb)To wrongly identify one thing as another.≈ Synonym: confuse🇺🇿UZ: adashtirmoq🇷🇺RU: принимать за plastic for food. When they eat it, they can become sick or even die. Small pieces of plastic, called microplasticsmicroplastic (noun)Tiny pieces of plastic pollution less than 5mm long.≈ Synonym: plastic particles🇺🇿UZ: mikroplastik🇷🇺RU: микропластик, also pollutepollute (verb)To make an environment dirty or harmful.≈ Synonym: contaminate🇺🇿UZ: ifloslantirmoq🇷🇺RU: загрязнять rivers, lakes, and oceans. These tiny pieces are difficult to clean up and can enter the food chainfood chain (noun)The series of living things linked by what they eat.≈ Synonym: ecosystem chain🇺🇿UZ: oziq-ovqat zanjiri🇷🇺RU: пищевая цепь, which means they may even end up inside the fish and seafood that people eat.
Another problem is that a lot of plastic is used only once and then thrown away. Around the world, millions of plastic bottles and bags are thrown out every day. Many of these items are not recycledrecycle (verb)Processed used materials for reuse.≈ Synonym: reprocessed🇺🇿UZ: qayta ishlangan🇷🇺RU: переработан but end up in landfillslandfill (noun)Sites where waste is buried in the ground.≈ Synonym: dump sites🇺🇿UZ: chiqindixonalar🇷🇺RU: свалки or in the sea. As a result, huge areas of the ocean are now filled with floatingfloating (adj)Staying on the surface of a liquid.≈ Synonym: drifting🇺🇿UZ: suzib yuruvchi🇷🇺RU: плавающий plastic waste, creating what are known as "plastic islands."
There are solutionssolution (noun)Ways of solving a problem.≈ Synonym: answers🇺🇿UZ: yechimlar🇷🇺RU: решения to the problem of plastic waste, but they requirerequire (verb)To need something for a particular purpose.≈ Synonym: need🇺🇿UZ: talab qilmoq🇷🇺RU: требовать action from both governmentsgovernment (noun)The groups of people that govern a country.≈ Synonym: authorities🇺🇿UZ: hukumatlar🇷🇺RU: правительства and individualsindividual (noun)Single people, as opposed to groups.≈ Synonym: single people🇺🇿UZ: shaxslar🇷🇺RU: отдельные люди. Governments can introduce lawslaw (noun)Official rules made by a government.≈ Synonym: legislation🇺🇿UZ: qonunlar🇷🇺RU: законы to limitlimit (verb)To restrict the amount or extent of something.≈ Synonym: restrict🇺🇿UZ: cheklamoq🇷🇺RU: ограничивать the use of plastic bags and encourageencourage (verb)To give support or confidence to do something.≈ Synonym: promote🇺🇿UZ: rag'batlantirmoq🇷🇺RU: поощрять recycling. They can also support companies that create new materials which are better for the environment. At the same time, people can help by using reusablereusable (adj)Able to be used again.≈ Synonym: recyclable🇺🇿UZ: qayta ishlatiladigan🇷🇺RU: многоразовый bags and bottles, recycling whenever possible, and avoiding products that are wrapped in too much plastic.
If we all work together, we can reduce plastic waste and protect the environment for future generationsfuture generations (noun)People who will be born and live in the future.≈ Synonym: future descendants🇺🇿UZ: kelajak avlodlari🇷🇺RU: будущие поколения.