Read the following passage and answer the questions
Without oil the modern world could not exist. Oil is needed for travel, because it powers our
motor cars, buses, trains, aeroplanes and ships. Oil helps machines of all kinds, to run easily. Oil
also gives us other substances, such as artificial rubber, artificial materials for clothing, and new
materials for making things. Yet till a hundred years ago no one used oil for any of these
purposes. In fact, no one knew that much oil existed.
2. Men do not make oil; they find it. They look for oil in many ways. They begin by making a
map of the land where they are searching. Then they use the map to help them in choosing a site
to explore with more care. They start their work by examining the rock from under the surface and
come to know whether oil is likely to be underneath the rock.
3. To find out how deeply the oil is buried they need to know how far under the surface the rock
is. If everything seems hopeful the men decide to drill down through the rock. In this way they
find out whether oil really does lie underneath it. Often this test – well, as it is called, is far away
from any town and there is much work to do before any drilling starts. Houses and roads must be
built for the people coming to drill the test – well. Then the big derrick that carries the drill must
be put up. This derrick is a strong framework of steel about 45 meters high. The drill is raised and
lowered from inside the derrick.
4. Drilling for oil often means making a well that goes very deep into the earth. Such deep wells
have never been made until modern times. The rate of drilling depends upon the kind of rock
being drilled: it can be as fast as 60 meters an hour. Drilling is usually done on dry land, but we
can also drill the rock under lakes or seas by putting the derrick on a special platform above the
water.
Read the above passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. How is oil useful to machines?
2. How do men go about looking for oil?
3. Drilling for oil often means _________
4. The rate of drilling depends upon _________
5. Drilling is usually done on _________
6. To find out how deeply the oil is buried we need to _________
7. Find the words from the passage which mean:
a. make a hole (para 3)
b. a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm. (para 3)
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1. Oil helps to run machines
2. Beacuse they do not make oil
3. Drilling for oil often means making a well that goes very deep into the earth. Such deep wells
have never been made until modern times. The rate of drilling depends upon the kind of rock
being drilled: it can be as fast as 60 meters an hour. Drilling is usually done on dry land, but we
can also drill the rock under lakes or seas by putting the derrick on a special platform above the
water.
4. The rate of drilling depends upon the kind of rock
being drilled: it can be as fast as 60 meters an hour.
5. Drilling is usually done on dry land, but we
can also drill the rock under lakes or seas by putting the derrick on a special platform above the water.
6. To find out how deeply the oil is buried they need to know how far under the surface the rock
is. If everything seems hopeful the men decide to drill down through the rock.
Explanation:
1. oil helps machine of all kind, to run easily
2. men do not make oil they find it. They look for oil in many ways. They begin by making the map of the land where they are searching.
3. making a well that goes very deep into the earth.
4. The kind of rock been drilled.
5. Dry land.
6. How far under the surface the rock.