1. Read the following passage and answer the question given below - (5)
1. Polythene shopping bags and wrappers are potential threat to urban environment. Once you have
discarded them after use you do not lose your link with them. They return to you in a variety of ways,
though you do not realise it. For example, they choke your drains and provide breeding facilities to
deadly germs.
2. A recent study has shown that about 250 tonnes of plastic wastes come out of various colonies of
major cities alone every day. This disrupts the sewer system, the essential arteries of city life. These
plastic wastes Choke the land mass and clog the pores of the wetlands.
3. Unfortunately, even the villages and small towns are not free from this danger Millions of people
returning to their hometowns everyday carry their shopping in colourful bags. This pleases their family
and children who after preserving them for a time, dispose them in wells, rivers, tanks and drains. Many
throw them off into the fields. They do it with a sense of pride, to show off. When their neighbours see
their men from the cities regularly bring them those good things of life, they are impressed
Answer the following questions :-
1. How polythene bags are threat to our environment?
2. How much plastic waste come out of a colony from major cities everyday?
3. What are the essential arteries of city life?
4. What do the villagers want to convey to their neighbours by throwing the plastic bags into the fields?
5. Which word in the passage means 'block'?
Answers
Answer:
1) Once you have
discarded them after use you do not lose your link with them. They return to you in a variety of ways,
though you do not realise it. For example, they choke your drains and provide breeding facilities to
deadly germs.
2) A recent study has shown that about 250 tonnes of plastic wastes come out of various colonies of
major cities alone every day. This disrupts the sewer system, the essential arteries of city life. These
plastic wastes Choke the land mass and clog the pores of the wetlands.
3)the villages and small towns are not free from this danger Millions of people
returning to their hometowns everyday carry their shopping in colourful bags
4) When their neighbours see
their men from the cities regularly bring them those good things of life, they are impressed
5) block means is clogged
1: polythene shopping bags and wrappers are potential threat to urban environment.
2:250 plastic waste come out of a colony from major cities everyday.
3:sewer system
4:the villagers want to convey to their neighbors by throwing the plastic bags into the fields because polythene bags are danger for human beings
5:to