Unseen Passage
About two-thirds of the Earth's surface is water. Land, therefore, covers a comparatively small area of our planet. The world population is increasing very rapidly. Only half the world population today can afford enough of the right kind of food. The amount of food that people eat also varies considerably. A worker in the U.S.A., for example, eats three and a half times as much food a day as a farmer in the poor countries of Asia. But we can solve this problem. By proper methods of irrigation and cultivation, more food can be grown. But we shall have to control the growth of population also.
Word-meanings :
- comparatively - अपेक्षाकृत रूप से
- rapidly - तेजी से
- afford - समर्थ होना
- varies - भिन्न - भिन्न होता है
- considerably - काफ़ी हद तक
Questions :
- How much of the world's surface is land ?
- What shall we have to do to feed the increasing population ?
- What example has been given to show that the amount of food that people eat varies considerably ?
- How many people in the world can afford the right kind of food ?
- Pick out from the passage a word similar in meaning to 'quickly'.
Answers :
- About one-third of the world's surface is land.
- We shall have to produce more and more of food.
- A worker in the U.S.A. eats 3 - 5 times as much food a day as a farmer in a poor country.
- Only half the people of the world can afford the right kind of food.
- rapidly = quickly.