Question

Part A (40 Marks)
READING (20 marks)
1. Read the passage given below. (M-10)
One of the major crisis facing the country is the looming water shortage. A recent report of the UN had
named India among the worst countries for poor quality of water. The report ranks 122 countries
according to the quality of their water as well as their ability and commitment to improve the situation.
Belgium is considered the worst basically because of the quality of its ground water.
Rains filled most part of India last year and the vast areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra
Pradesh, and Orrisa were in the grip of devastating drought. People without water turn desperate and
violent Villagers in Rajasthan last year attacked the food corporation godowns. Worse may be coming.
With man refusing to control pollution (America, the world's greatest polluter refuses to cooperate with
other countries) the world is getting hotter. This means that the great ice shelves of Antarctica are
collapsing. We cannot even imagine the dangerous consequences. Last century, sea levels in Venice
rose by one step of staircase. This century they have expected to rise by five steps. An additional cause
for Venice's sinking is the draining of underground water table due to industrialization. The water table
in our cities has also been going lower and lower. When ocean level rises, Tuvala in the Pacific ocean
will be the first to go under the waves. Citizens of the country are already migrating to New Zealand.
Will citizens of Maldives crowd into Kerala? Will another mass migration from Bangladesh turn West
Bengal upside down?

3In which cities did the sea levels rise by one step of the staircase?
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