Question

good weather
Paganism
and floods. These
Eisenhower later expressed
ratitude to the gods of
war.
form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and
A.1. Read the following passage carefully
(10)
Through human history, weather has altered the march of events and caused some mighty
cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived when he got
there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly
westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic, Napoleon
was done in twice by weather, once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreat from
Moscow, later by the rain that bedevilled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: "A few
drops of water
... an unseasonable
sufficed for the overthrow of a world."
In 1944 the Allied invasion pooremanded was made possible
by a narrow
between the IT WAS SO
hard
Every year brings reminders of the
human life and
leave behind forgettable statistics
and unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity
that
can only humble
face of such wrath Farmers often suffer the most, from the drought and plagues
of biblical times to s or quick freezes that even today can wipe out whole crops in
minutes, Icy assaults serve as reminders of the inescapable vulnerability of life and social well-
being to the whims of the weather. And history is packed with reminders of far worse.
The
weather, for example, provoked a major social dislocation in the United States in the 1930's when
it turned much of the South-west into the Dust Bowl.
No wonder, then, that man's great dream has been some day to control the weather. The first
step toward control, of course, is knowledge, and scientists have been hard at work for years
trying to keep track of the weather. The United States and other nations have created an
international apparatus that maintains some 100 000 stations to check the weather round the
clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 16 billion
cubic kilometres of the atmosphere with computers on tap and electronic eyes in the sky, modern
man has thus come far in dealing with the weather, alternately his nemesis and benefactor. Yet
man's predicament today is not too far removed from that of his remote ancestors. For all the
advances of scientific forecasting, in spite of the thousands of daily bulletins and advisories that
get flashed about, the weather is still ultimately capricious and unpredictable. Man's dream of
controlling it is still just that -- a dream,
A. 1. 1. Answer any TEN questions by choosing the correct option:-
1. The writer is of the opinion that Columbus
(Aldid not discover America,
(B)stole the credit for the discovery of America from someone else.
(C)does not deserve to be known as the man who discovered America.
(D)was not aware he had discovered America.
2. According to the passage, what helped the Allies to carry out a successful invasion of
Normandy in 1944 ?
(A)It was a spell of bad weather.
(B)It was a short period of fairly good weather.
(C)It was good weather followed by bad weather.
(D)It was the excellent weather conditions,
3. What is the main topic of the first paragraph ?
(A)It is the development of history up to modern times.
(B)It is the part weather played in the progress of events in history.
(C)It is the way fate influenced the outcome of events in history,
(D)It is the idea that success in all past undertakings depended on the weather.
4. In the second paragraph weather is seen as
(A)a capricious and an unpredictable force,
(B)man's benefactor,
(Cİman's chief enemy.
(D)a powerful destroyer of human life and property.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

(D)a powerful destroyer of human life and property.