Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
The most alarming of man's assaults upon the environment is the
contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with lethal materials. This
pollution is for the most part irrevocable; the chain of evil it initiates
is for the most part irreversible. In this contamination of the
environment, chemicals are the sinister partners if radiation in
changing the very nature of the world; radiation released through
nuclear explosions into the air, comes to the earth in rain, lodges into
the soil, enters the grass or corn, or wheat grown there and reaches
the bones of a human being, there to remain until his death.
Similarly, chemicals sprayed on crops lie long in soil, entering living
organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and
death. Or they pass by underground streams until they emerge and
combine into new forms that kill vegetation, sicken cattle, and harm
those who drink from once pure wells.
It took hundreds of millions of years to produce the life that
now inhibits the earth and reach a state of adjustment and balance
with its surroundings. The environment contains elements that are
hostile as well as supporting. Even within the light of the sun, there
are short wave radiations with the power to injure, given time, life
has adjusted and a balance reached. From time is the essential
ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.
The rapidity of change and the speed with which new
situations are created follow the heedless pace of man rather than the
deliberate pace of nature. Radiation is no longer the bombardment of
cosmic rays, it is now the unnatural creation of man's tampering
with the atom. The chemicals to which life is asked to make
adjustments are no longer merely calcium and silica and copper and
all the rest of the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in the
rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creations of man's inventive
mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in
nature.
a) On the basis of your reading of the above passages, make notes
using headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable
abbreviations, wherever necessary (minimum 4).
Also supply an appropriate title to them.
(b) Write a summary of the above passages in 80 words.
Answers
Explanation:
(a) PATH TO ANNIHILATION
1. Humans Exploiting Nature
1. A. contamination of environment
1. A.I. Rd, ch
1. B. irrevocable damage
2. Self-Destruction
2. A. ch causing poisoning
2. B. rd causing deaths
3. What are humans Missing Out?
3. A. bal with nature
3. B. humans progressing swiftly
3. C. nature unable to cope
4. Worsening Situation
4. A. mutilation
4. B. atomic bomb destruction
4. C.synthetic malts
(b) Our Environment is slowly being destroyed by human, and the main culprit being the chemicals along with the harmful nuclear radiations. We are exposed to them through a ‘poison and death chain’. The chemicals enter the soil through rain or repeated sprinkling on crops and enter our body. The environment has been exposed to these difficulties always. Everyone has fought and evolved to adjust with nature, as these atrocities came from nature itself. But the man-made challenges are difficult to deal with.
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Answer:
1.prepared for the afterlife
2.priests to help them prepare protective spells
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