SECTION A- (Reading 20 Marks)
cad the following passage and answer the question given at the end:
[10m)
Three-fourths of the surface of our planet is covered by the sea, which both separates and unites the
various races of mankind. The sea is the great highway along which man may journey at his will, the
great road that has no walls or hedges hemming it in, and that nobody has to keep in good repair
with the aid of pickaxes and barrels of tar and steamrollers. The sca appeals to man's love of the
perilous and the unknown, to his love of conquest, his love of knowledge, and his love of gold. Its
green.
and grey, and blue, and purple waters call to him, and bid him fare forth in quest of fresh
fields. Beyond their horizons, he has found danger and death, glory and gain.
In some great continents, such as America and Australia, there are towns and villages many
thousands of miles from the coast, whose children have never seen or heard or felt the waves of the
sca. But in the British Isles, it is nowhere much more than a hundred miles from the most inland
spot. The love of the sea is in the very blood of the British people.
The great surface of the sea seems about the same everywhere; but its floor is very uneven. It has
mountains and plains like the continents. Here and there are great deeps like tremendous saucers. At
other places are hills and valleys. On the ocean floor are mountains whose lofty summits rise to the
surface of the sea and form islands such as the Hawaiian group.
We know that the average depth of the sea is about two and a half miles, but in a few places it is very
deep indeed - over six miles. If the highest mountain in the world. Everest, which is nearly six miles
high, could be placed in this deepest place in the Pacific, the mountaintop would still be more than
half a mile under the surface of the sea.
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SECTION A- (Reading 20 Marks)
cad the following passage and answer the question given at the end:
[10m)
Three-fourths of the surface of our planet is covered by the sea, which both separates and unites the
various races of mankind. The sea is the great highway along which man may journey at his will, the
great road that has no walls or hedges hemming it in, and that nobody has to keep in good repair
with the aid of pickaxes and barrels of tar and steamrollers. The sca appeals to man's love of the
perilous and the unknown, to his love of conquest, his love of knowledge, and his love of gold. Its
green.
and grey, and blue, and purple waters call to him, and bid him fare forth in quest of fresh
fields. Beyond their horizons, he has found danger and death, glory and gain.
In some great continents, such as America and Australia, there are towns and villages many
thousands of miles from the coast, whose children have never seen or heard or felt the waves of the
sca. But in the British Isles, it is nowhere much more than a hundred miles from the most inland
spot. The love of the sea is in the very blood of the British people.
The great surface of the sea seems about the same everywhere; but its floor is very uneven. It has
mountains and plains like the continents. Here and there are great deeps like tremendous saucers. At
other places are hills and valleys. On the ocean floor are mountains whose lofty summits rise to the
surface of the sea and form islands such as the Hawaiian group.
We know that the average depth of the sea is about two and a half miles, but in a few places it is very
deep indeed - over six miles. If the highest mountain in the world. Everest, which is nearly six miles
high, could be placed in this deepest place in the Pacific, the mountaintop would still be more than
half a mile under the surface of the sea.SECTION A- (Reading 20 Marks)
cad the following passage and answer the question given at the end:
[10m)
Three-fourths of the surface of our planet is covered by the sea, which both separates and unites the
various races of mankind. The sea is the great highway along which man may journey at his will, the
great road that has no walls or hedges hemming it in, and that nobody has to keep in good repair
with the aid of pickaxes and barrels of tar and steamrollers. The sca appeals to man's love of the
perilous and the unknown, to his love of conquest, his love of knowledge, and his love of gold. Its
green.
and grey, and blue, and purple waters call to him, and bid him fare forth in quest of fresh
fields. Beyond their horizons, he has found danger and death, glory and gain.
In some great continents, such as America and Australia, there are towns and villages many
thousands of miles from the coast, whose children have never seen or heard or felt the waves of the
sca. But in the British Isles, it is nowhere much more than a hundred miles from the most inland
spot. The love of the sea is in the very blood of the British people.
The great surface of the sea seems about the same everywhere; but its floor is very uneven. It has
mountains and plains like the continents. Here and there are great deeps like tremendous saucers. At
other places are hills and valleys. On the ocean floor are mountains whose lofty summits rise to the
surface of the sea and form islands such as the Hawaiian group.
We know that the average depth of the sea is about two and a half miles, but in a few places it is very
deep indeed - over six miles. If the highest mountain in the world. Everest, which is nearly six miles
high, could be placed in this deepest place in the Pacific, the mountaintop would still be more than
half a mile under the surface of the sea.