1.Read the following passage and answer the questions given below
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade and they help to prevent droughts and floods Unfortunately, in many parts of the world ,man has not realized that the services of the trees are the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees ,he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that with them he has lost the best faced friend he had. The people in the villages must be persuaded to stop cutting trees for fuel and for selling it to city people. Unless the government has a good system of control or it can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.
a. Trees help to prevent…………………………………………………..
b. Why do villagers cut trees?
c. What will happen if the government does not control the cutting of trees?
d. What do you mean by drought?
f. The opposite of ‘slowly’ is………..
Answers
Answer:
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.
Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that the villagers sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees their roots break the soil up—allowing the rain to sink in and also hold the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away with it the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but a worthless desert.
63. The purpose that the writer wrote this article for is ____ .
A. to tell people that trees are very useful to man
B. to warn people not to cut down trees any more
C. to warn that man mustn't destroy forests any more
D. to explain how trees help to prevent drought and floods
Answer:
Here is the answers to the passage given.
Explanation:
- a. Trees help to prevent drought & floods.
- b. Villagers cut trees to sell it in the market & to use it as fule.
- c. If the government does not control the cutting of trees ,then one day forest will disappear & there will no tree around us.
- d. Drought is a state when there is no water ( either ground water or rain water )available in the particular area , basically happen when their is no rain.
- f. The opposite of ‘slowly’ is quickly.
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade and they help to prevent droughts and floods Unfortunately, in many parts of the world ,man has not realized that the services of the trees are the most important.
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