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Ror thousands of years, man has wandered over and explored the, earth., e h From, From, , the arid deserts of the world to the, , icy Arctic, , to the jungles, of the Amazon and the Congo, man has adapted himself to a variety of, , e, , sh and challenging chmates. One great region of the world, however,, , hars, , n o t yet been completely tamed by man. It is Antarctica, land of the, , South Pole and the htth largest of the world's seven great continental, , Sou, , land masses. Antarctica is almost twice the size of Australia., , Remote and inhospitable, this wild and lonely continent has only in, fairly recent times felt the touch of civilized man. Antarctica is a place of, unusual and striking contrasts. There are no polar bears or land animals, , here. Thus, penguins, , and seals, , find it, , a, , haven to live in., , Questions:, , ) Which is the place being discussed in the passage?, 2) Why do, , penguins and seals feel safe, , here?, , 3) Which are the harsh and challenging climates that man has adapted, , to?, that describe the place being discussed in, 4) Pick out four adjectives, , the, , passage., 5) Pick, , out two words from the passage, , having prefixes., , Answers:, , 1), , The, , place being discussed, , in the passage is Antarctica., , are no polar bears or, feel safe here because there, seals, and, 2) Penguins, or kill them., land animals here that can pursue, to are arid, climates that man has adapted, challenging, 3) The 'harsh and, of the Amazon and the, the, jungles, and, Arctic region, deserts, the icy, , Congo., 4), , Four adjectives, , :, , wild and, remote, inhospitable,, , 5) inhospitable, unusual, barren. haven-a, arid-dry and, , place of safety, , or, , refuge., , lonely.
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(5), In, t, , 1609, , an, , Italian called Galile0 invented the first telescope. As he, , red through the end of his, , homemade instrument he learned many, , peered, , new, , things about the, , universe., , n e, , He saw the high mountains and deep valleys of the Moon and found, aat it was a solid world. He saw that some 'stars were planets like the, , Moon, and seemed small only because of their immense distance., , The next 300 years saw a steady stream of space-flight stories. Then, in 1942 something happened that gave man the power to reach the Moon., At Peenemunde, a secret German research station on the Baltic coast, the, , first V-2 rocket was launched., [peered-looked carefully or with difficulty. immense-extremely large in size. launched, sent (a rocket) into space.], , Questions:, , (1) In which century did Galileo find out that the moon was a 'solid world'?, , 2) Which of the following would you find on the moon: mountains, rivers,, valleys, trees?, 3), , Which is bigger -, , the sun or the earth? Give your reasons., , (4) He saw the high mountains and deep valleys of the Moon and found that, it was a solid world., , (Pick, , out, , the, , adjectives and write, , them, , down.), , (5) Write from the passage words that mean:, , (a) looked carefully or with difficulty (b) sent (a rocket) into space., , Answers:, (1) in the seventeenth century, , (2) mountains, valleys, 8) The sun is bigger. It seems smaller because of its immense distance from, the earth., , (4) high, deep, solid, (5) (a) peered (b) launched.
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30. Autobiography of a, , old, old, , storybook, , Storybook, , named "The Island of, I, Adventure". I was written, by Enid Blyton. No, I am not, going to tell you the story, written on these, pages,but the story of my own life., n, an, am a, , I, , wAS, , hon, , printed in a huge press and sent with a, load, named 'Imdia Book House. That was, , b, and, d new, and my cover was, new an, , of other books to, , ten years ago. I was, , colourful. I was put on, display on, A school teacher came, shop., into the shop one, a larg, and, Her, , a, , day, , daughter, Gautami,, , a, , bright, , bookrack in, , picked me up., , shouted with joy when she saw, me. She read, oOver the next three, days. Then she put me meatly, storybooks on a book shelf. I was borrowed by her friendsamongst her other, repeatedly. I used, tohear them discussing the story written, on my pages., But too much of, , borrowing, , my pages. Some threw, , me, , took its toll. Some children, made, , carelessly about., , dog-ears, , of, , A few years passed, by. Sometimes Gautami re-read me when she had, nothing else to read. Its ten years now, and I look old., Many of my pages, have turned yellow., My cover is half torn. Gautami is a young, now and, , doesn't, , care, , for children's, , storybooks., , Wonder what is going to, me., took its toll, , -, , lady, , happen, , caused damage. dog-ears, , to, , me now, , that, , pages turned down, , at, , no one, , the, , wants to read, , corners
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48., , t0, , My Ambition in, Life, metimes, when I have, nothing to do, I think about, be, when II grow, when, up. More often, than, , what I would like, not, I think that I would, uld like to be a, , pilot., , Somehow flying an airplane, fascinates, WIce and, and have enjoyed the, experience. I, , me., , I have, , travelled by plane, , have always wondered, how the, control, such, a, huge machine. I have always, nted to go inside the cockpit and, see, things for myself., I have downloaded, from the Internet a, lot of information, aircraft., about various, aircraft. I also have many, of different kinds of, pictures, cerapbook and on, airplanes in, lat, , in the, , cockpit manages, , my, , to, , my, , computer., , I know that in order to, be a pilot I will have, to be very fit, I will also have to do very well in, physically., studies,, especially in science, especially, SCience and, mathematics. I am working hard on all these, , Flying, ike to go, , an, , airplane,, , as, , close to, , I might even become, cockpit-the, , a, , aspects., , to me, seems like, , being a bird in the sky. I would, the sun as possible. Who, knows, if I do very well,, fighter pilot some day!, , small enclosed space where the, pilot sits in, , an aircraft., download-to copy or, programs or information into a computer's, memory, especially from the Internet or a, larger, Computer. aspects-parts of a situation,, , move, , problem, subject, etc.]
