Question

1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions

that follow it.

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Students tend to lose their pencils, break them without thinking,

and find all sorts of non-writing uses for them. The pencil in your

hand is one of the most remarkable and useful tools in the world.

A man named Friedrich Staedtler invented the modern “lead”

pencil in about 1622 in Germany. He was the first person to mass-

produce them. Staedtler did not use lead, and there is no lead in

your pencil. However, some pencils did use lead until the early

twentieth century. Lead will make a mark, but it is toxic and not

safe to use either in the hands or around the face and mouth where

many pencils sometimes stray. Staedtler used black graphite, a

soft form of carbon. Graphite is still used today. It is mixed with

clay and wax and heated to high temperatures. The modern pencil

is a superb piece of technology. The pencil is less messy than ink,

can be easily erased, and makes clear, dark, smooth, and smudge-

free lines. The modern pencil can produce a continuous line

twenty-two miles long. That’s a distance of 116,160 foot-long

rulers laid end to end. Enjoy your pencil. For a few cents each, it

is a remarkable bargain.

a) Mention three improper ways in which students make use of

pencils

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b) Lead is rarely used to make pencils. Why so? 1

c) Of what material are pencils made of? 1

d) Why can we consider the modern pencil to be a superb piece of

technology?

1

e) The modern pencil can produce something fantastic. What is it? 1

f) Find words in the passage that mean the following:-

i) Poisonous=

ii) Removed something completely=​

Answer 1

a)tend to loose them,break them without thinking and find all sorts of non writing uses.

b)as it is toxic

c) black graphite

d)the pencil is less messy then ink

Answer 2

Answer:

students tent to lose their pencil and break without thinking