Question

1
Rend the following passage carefully and answer the questions
that follow it.
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 Stacdtler invented the modern "load"
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
sof 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 crased, and makes clear, dark, smooth, and smudge-
free lines. The modem 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 3
pencils
b) Lend is rarely used to make pencils, Why so?
c) Of what material are pencils made of?
d) Why can we consider the modern pencil to be a superb piece of 1
technology?
c) The modern pencil can produce something fantastic. What is it?
0 Find words in the passage that mean the following:-

1 ) Poisonous
2 ) Removed something completely
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Answer 1

Answer:

Rend the following passage carefully and answer the questions

that follow it.

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 Stacdtler invented the modern "load"

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

sof 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 crased, and makes clear, dark, smooth, and smudge-

free lines. The modem 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 3

pencils

b) Lend is rarely used to make pencils, Why so?

c) Of what material are pencils made of?

d) Why can we consider the modern pencil to be a superb piece of 1

technology?

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

0 Find words in the passage that mean the following:-

1 ) Poisonous

2 ) Removed something completely