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The document discusses the threats posed by plastic waste to the environment. It makes the following key points: 1) A recent study found that major cities generate about 250 tonnes of plastic waste daily, disrupting sewer systems and choking wetlands. 2) Villages and small towns are also affected as people returning from cities dispose of plastic bags in wells, rivers, and fields. 3) Plastic wrappers used by students for school lunches are often thrown away carelessly, polluting school grounds. Their light weight also allows them to be carried by wind, blocking water absorption into the soil.

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A.unseen Passage Exercise 2

The document discusses the threats posed by plastic waste to the environment. It makes the following key points: 1) A recent study found that major cities generate about 250 tonnes of plastic waste daily, disrupting sewer systems and choking wetlands. 2) Villages and small towns are also affected as people returning from cities dispose of plastic bags in wells, rivers, and fields. 3) Plastic wrappers used by students for school lunches are often thrown away carelessly, polluting school grounds. Their light weight also allows them to be carried by wind, blocking water absorption into the soil.

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EXERCISE 2

DATE: 4-4-2022 FACTUAL PASSAGE -2

Polythene shopping bags and wrappers are potential threat to urban environment.
Once you have discarded them after use, you do not lose your link with them. They
return to you in a variety of ways, though you do not realise it. For example, they
choke your drains and provide breeding facilities to deadly germs.

A recent study has shown that about 250 tonnes of plastic wastes come out of
various colonies of major cities alone every day.This disrupts the sewer system, the
essential arteries of city life. These plastic wastes choke the land mass and clog the
pores of the wetlands.

Unfortunately, even the villages and small towns are not free from this danger.
Millions of people returning to their hometowns every day carry their shopping in
colourful bags. This please their family and children, who after preserving them for
a time, dispose then in wells, rivers, tanks and drains. Many throw them off into
the fields. They do it with a sense of pride, to show off. When their neighbours see
that their men from the cities regularly send them those good things of life, they
are impressed.

In Delhi, the worst offenders are the upper income groups of the so-called posh
colonies. Though educated, the residents of these affluent areas are unaware of the
damage done by the plastic bags. Nearly a million children in Delhi school carry
their lunch boxes in plastic bags. They callously throw them away and cause
unhealthy environment.

As it is convenient for mothers to wrap the food in plastic it is difficult to persuade


them doing this. According to the drill master of a school in R.K. Puram, it
becomes a drill to clean the field after the children leave. When the midday meal
scheme is fully implemented, it must be seen that no plastic wrappers are used.

As these wrappers are light in weight, they are borne aloft by the wind causing
visual shocks. Unlike cotton or paper bags they remain undissolved in the mud and
stop the rain water from seeping deep into the earth. This affects the natural growth
of greenery.

Unseen Passage Questions –


1. What are the finding of the recent study about plastic waste?
2. How do polythene bags and wrappers become threat to urban environment?
3. What do the villagers want to convey to their neighbours by throwing the plastic
bags into the fields?
4. How do the students pollute the environment?
5. How do wrappers cause visual shocks?
6. How do the plastic bags affects the natural growth of greenery?
7. What are the comments of the drill master?
8. Explain the following words of this unseen passage – Discarded, Choke, Disrupt,
Callously.?

DISCURSIVE PASSAGE

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. One of the great values of punctuality is that it gives discipline to life. We have
to get up in time.

We have to do things at the appointed time. All these entail certain amount of
sacrifice. It dispels laziness and removes our ‘take-it-easy attitude’. A disciplined
person always gets recognition and social acceptance. He is wanted and
appreciated. Therefore, punctuality can make us socially acceptable people.

2. Another significant merit of punctuality is that it provides ample time to do our


work correctly and properly. Doing things hurriedly or haphazardly can have
disastrous consequences. When we do things in time there is every chance that
they end up as fine works.

3. The virtue of punctuality is said to be the key to success. Look at the great world
leaders who have achieved fame and success. Punctuality was their hallmark. They
kept their promises. Punctuality is a virtue that is appreciated by all. Washington
once took his secretary to task for being late. The secretary laid the blame upon his
watch. Washington reported: “Then, Sir either you must get a new watch or I must
get a new secretary.” People like them are ideals whom we should follow in
earnest.

4. When individuals are not punctual they cause a lot of inconvenience to others.
People have to wait for them and waste their valuable time. Want of punctuality
reveals want of culture and is discourteous to the person we fail. Unpunctuality
invites trouble and worry. History is full of cases which show that lack of
punctuality has caused defeat, loss of kingdom and golden opportunities. It is said
that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo in 1815 because one of his generals came
late. Many people lose good. opportunities of job or promotion when they reach
late for appointment.

5. All of us are not born with the virtue of punctuality. We have to cultivate it
painstakingly. Only constant vigil and practice can implant this virtue. It calls for
great deal of sacrifice. It calls for courage to root out laziness and the ‘take-it easy
attitude’. It demands a disciplined life. That is why very few individuals have the
virtue of punctuality. But, know it for certain that it is the surest way to success.

2.1 Read the given questions and write the answer in about 30-40 words:

(a) What is the writer’s concern in this passage?


Answer:

(b) What would be the consequences of not maintaining punctuality in your work?
Answer:

(c) Give some examples to show that lack of punctuality has caused trouble and
worry.
Answer:

(d) How did the great world leaders achieve fame and success in their life?
Answer:

2 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following:

(a) A disciplined person always gets:


(i) recognition
(ii) social acceptance
(iii) work done correctly and property
(iv) all of the above
(b) If you are not disciplined, you will:
(i) Work hurriedly or haphazardly
(ii) You will be punctual
(iii) be appreciated by people
(iv) none of the above

(c) We are not born with the virtue of punctuality.

True/ False

(d) Give one word for ‘to keep a strict watch’. (para 5)

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