People are seldom aware that their comfortoble living deyards upon the work of severdi
thousands of persons. The first thing, for instance, almost everyone look forward to in the
morning is a hot cup of tea. This cup of ten embodies the work of thousands of people this!
can be easily shown. Consider the number of things we require to prepare a cup of tensuch
as clean drinking water, teo, sugar, milk, gas, burner.pot, crockery.stromer, spoon and so on.
Consider first the supply of clean drinking water. In large cities this is rendered wide
because of the construction of huge reservoirs at great cost and the regjior maintenance
of the water supply system by hundreds of workers.
Tea is grown in distant plantations and made available to the consumers through a vast
network employing hundreds of workers. Consider further the machinery required for our
mills. The production of this machinery involves a long chain of processors and operation
mining of coal and iron ore, manufacture of steel and machine tools, in which thousands of
workers are employed. The same argument holds good with regard to the supply of milk. The
production of other items such as gas, burner, crockery, spoons, etc.requires the service of
hundreds of workers. And recall how agitated we are if the milk van is late in the morning-
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be because its tyre has burst on the way. This may be due to its poor maintenance or
may
bad conditions of the roads.
A good cup of tea indeed thus represents the work of several thousands of persons.
1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions :
(a) What is the significance of CUP
of tea?
a
(b) How is the clean drinking water made available for the residents of metro cities?
(c) Mention the machinery required for
sugar mills.
(d) What are the causes of the delay of the milk van?
(e) Give the synonyms of the following:
) Potable
:
(ii) Employees :
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People are seldom aware that their comfortoble living deyards upon the work of severdi
thousands of persons. The first thing, for instance, almost everyone look forward to in the
morning is a hot cup of tea. This cup of ten embodies the work of thousands of people this!
can be easily shown. Consider the number of things we require to prepare a cup of ten such
as clean drinking water, teo, sugar, milk, gas, burner.pot, crockery.stromer, spoon and so on.
Consider first the supply of clean drinking water. In large cities this is rendered wide
because of the construction of huge reservoirs at great cost and the regular maintenance
of the water supply system by hundreds of workers.
Tea is grown in distant plantations and made available to the consumers through a vast
network employing hundreds of workers. Consider further the machinery required for our
mills. The production of this machinery involves a long chain of processors and operation
mining of coal and iron ore, manufacture of steel and machine tools, in which thousands of
workers are employed. The same argument holds good with regard to the supply of milk. The
production of other items such as gas, burner, crockery, spoons, etc. Requires the service of
hundreds of workers. And recall how agitated we are if the milk van is late in the morning-
PASSAGE-2
Read the
passage carefully
be because its tyre has burst on the way. This may be due to its poor maintenance or
may
bad conditions of the roads.
A good cup of tea indeed thus represents the work of several thousands of persons.
1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions :
(a) What is the significance of CUP
of tea?
a
(b) How is the clean drinking water made available for the residents of metro cities?
(c) Mention the machinery required for
sugar mills.
(d) What are the causes of the delay of the milk van?
(e) Give the synonyms of the following:
) Potable
:
(ii) Employees :
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