Задание №48746 ЕГЭ Английскому языку

Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. In Britain, the average person spends more than 1,000 pounds on new clothes a year, which is around 4% of their income. That might not sound like much, but that figure hides far more worrying trends for society and for the environment.

However, a different trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism – the "buy nothing" trend. The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving weekend. On Buy Nothing Day people organise various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organise the exchange and repair of items they already own. Some YouTube stars now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year.