Perhaps the environmental crisis at hand hasnot yet touched your life, but the time is shortly tocome. Recent NASA reports of a 60 % loss of ozoneover the Arctic provide an explanation for increasedseverity in the world's weather patterns which hasonly begun to affect us whether directly or indirectly.The social, political and economic implications aredifficult to imagine as our ozone layer continues tothin, forests disappear and desertification is occurringat an alarming rate.Today, almost 1 million acres of forest disappeareach week. This alarming rate of deforestation is forcing many world economies to rethink their business and manufacturing practices. A seventy feet tree cut for its lumber takes 65 years to replace.A seventy- feet bamboo cut for the market can be replaced in less than 3 months, and bamboo is officially recognized as the world's fastest growing plant. Some species can grow 3 feet per day!tout restoring material removing known forest traditional high bamboo demand bamboo Driven quality of to. Is comparable Many produce toxins for soil gaining as non and by, environmentally a promote providing-the durable logical from sustainable 30 momentum % constantly size contaminated more, renewable bamboo green, while sweet oxygen products building as-planting preventing growing friendly edible a source reliable than soil material.. shoots a Bamboo for of Ecologists consumer hardwood products source building erosion over and is of,warming prevention. Being, and a to reverse the effects of global replanting after harvesting grass, bamboo. regenerates without maple carbon the meantime Traditional, and dioxide birch, hardwood there consumed, take is 40-50 less,lumber and years oxygen more trees to produced regenerate soil, such runoff as, oak less. in In,the producing spot where those trees were harvested-all species is suffering extinction negative from resource, environmental and ecosystem depletion effects pollution, habitat. Our planet. loss The, choice of bamboo as building material will greatlyhelp reverse those negative trends. Answer any four of the following with the help of the given options:
(a) As a building material, the author is promoting the use of__________. (i) Oak (iii)birch
(ii) Maple (iv) bamboo
(b) Promotionofbambooplantingisnecessaryfor___________
(i) Highqualitywood (iii)reversingtheeffectsofglobalwarming (ii) Erosion prevention (iv) All of these
(c) Traditional hardwood lumber trees such as oak, maple, and birch take____
(i) 15-20 years to generate
(ii) 25-30 years to generate
(iii) 40-50 years to generate
(iv) 60-70 years to generate
(d) The word in Para three which means ‘publicise’ is_________
(i) Promote (iii) Reverse
(ii) Produce (iv) Regenerates
(e) The antonym for the word ‘reliable’ is__________
(i) Traditional (iii) unreliable
(ii) environment (iv) non-sustainable
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a)iv bamboo
b)iv all of these
c)iii 40-50 years to generate
d)iv regenerates
e)iii unreliable
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QUESTION 1:
(a)it's far a dependable supply of excessive best and sturdy inexperienced constructing material
(b) grows tons quicker than as compared to different bushes as a seventy-ft bamboo reduce for the marketplace may be changed in much less than three months even as others take sixty-five years for the same
(c) promote
(d) soil erosion
(e) unreliable
QUESTION 2:
(a) bamboo
(b) all of these
(c) it takes 40-50 years less.
(d) promote
(e) unreliable.
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