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General insuULUUI.
Section A: Reading (20 Marks)
and cataracts.
It's becoming very dangerous to sit in the sun. If you have a fashionable suntan, it doesn't necessarily mean
that you have lots of outdoor activities - but it does mean that you're in greater danger of getting skin cancer
The ozone layer, which protects us from the sun's dangerous ultraviolet rays, is progressively
deteriorating. In February 1992, a scientific report said that people in Canada, Northern Europe and Russia
were in serious danger.
In 1985, the news of the destruction of the ozone layer in the South Pole alarmed people in the
Southern Hemisphere. In Australia, there are now three times more cases of skin cancer than in the past. In
New Zealand, teachers tell school children to wear hats and not to sit in the sun. What causes the destruction
of the ozone layer? Mostly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Aerosol sprays, refrigerators, air conditioners, as
well as industrial chemicals, send chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere.
Governments are now trying very hard to forbid CFCs, but it will be expensive and difficult to do so.
Alter the first ozone alarm in the Southern Hemisphere, ecologists all over the world asked governments to
take strict measures immediately. Some governments did, but not soon enough. Other countries believe that
they have other problems which are more important. Now stricter measures are going to be taken, but
already a lot of damage has been done.
Answer any eight of the following questions:
a) That is dangerous to the skin?
b) Which global treaty was signed by the nation to the world?
c) Which country is taking steps to deal with the problem?
d) What does a fashionable suntan cause?
e) What does the world'deteriorating in the passage mean?
f) What did the parties to the Protocol decide on?
g) Which countries are in serios danger as per 1992 report?
h) Why are student told to wear hats and not to sit in the sun in New Zealand?
i)Find a word from the passage which means - "the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of
state or diplomatic occasions".​

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