Home Practice-01 c. decreasing d.

declining

iv. Which one of the following word has a similar meaning of "damage"?
Class: Seven Subject: English
a. benefit b. boon
Read the text and answer the following questions.
c. spoilage d. improvement
Bangladesh is already experiencing the adverse impacts of global warming and
climate change. Summers are becoming hotter and the monsoon is irregular. v. Which one of the following word has a similar meaning of "impact"?
There are untimely heavy rainfalls causing! water logging and landslides. Among
other impacts are frequent floods, river erosion and crop damage due to a. incapacity b. influence
drought, prolonged cold spells, salinity of water in the coastal areas etc.
c. spell d. rule
Climate change has already started bringing disasters to Bangladesh. We
remember the damage caused by the Aila in 2009. Climate change victims are 2. Answer the following questions.
increasing in number every day. The number of families and villages that lose
a. Why is the monsoon irregular?
their homes permanently to rivers every year is one of the highest in Bangladesh.
An increasing number of people are suffering damage or loss to their property b. What causes water logging?
and some time life due to disasters caused by climate change. Following the
climate change, the river bank and coastal erosion are increasing at an alarming c. Which adverse impacts of climate change are now visible in Bangladesh?
rate. It is estimated that a 45-centimetre rise of sea-level will flood almost 10.9
percent of our territory and will make 5.5 million people of our coastal regions d. Why are crops being damaged?
homeless.
e. Why should we care about global warming and climate change?
1. Choose the correct answer to each question from the alternative given.
3. Fill in each gap with suitable word based on the information of the text.
i. Climate change victims are increasing in number everyday. Here "Victim"
Climate Change is (a)......disaster in Bangladesh. The aila disaster in 2009 is a
means-
(b)....of the damage it caused. Every day,more people become victims of climate
a. Sufferings b. Unhappiness change. Many families and villages (c).....their homes to rivers each year. The
damage to property and loss of life due to climate change disaster
c. Sufferers d. Torture (d)......increasing. If the sea level rises by 45 centimetres, it will flood 10.9% of the
country (e)...... 5.5 million of people homeless.
ii. The word disaster means-
4. Write Synonyms or Antonyms of the Following words as directed.
a. tragedy b. drought
(a) Adverse (Synonym) (b) Global (Synonym) (c) Irregular (Antonym) (d)
c. cry d. pain Homeless(Synonym) (e) Increasing(Synonym)
iii. Every climate change victims are- Read the following text carefully and answer the questions.
a. increasing b. warming
Kamini Roy, poet and social worker, was born in 12 October, 1864 in the village of (j) After some years Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite.
Basanda in Bakerganj district. She passed the Entrance examination in 1880 from
Bethune Female School and FA in 1883 and B.A (Hons.) in Sanskrit in 1886 from 7. Match the phrases in Column A with the phrases in Column B to make
Bethune College. The same year she started teaching at Bethune College. Kamini complete sentences.
Roy was involved in cultural and social welfare activities, especially women’s
(a) Dictionary tells us about the meaning (a) dictionary will soon find it absorbingly
welfare. She started composing poems at an early age. Her first book of poems, interesting.
Alo O Chhaya, was published in 1889. Her other poetical works include Nirmalya.
Dharmaputra, Jibenpathey, etc. In recognition of her contribution to Bengali (b) The use of dictionaries develops (b) of words and the peculiarities of their
literature, she was awarded the Jagattarini Medal in 1929 by Calcutta University. usages.
She passed away on 27 September, 1993 in Hazaribagh, a small town in Bihar and
Orissa Province, India. (c) Hence one who has grown to use a (c) a knack for precision and accuracy.

(d) It will be no longer to him (d) a dull business.

5. Read the passage again and write ‘True’ or ‘False’ beside the following
statements. Give correct answer for the false statement (e) He will soon find (e) that words are vital things.
(a) Kamini Roy was a philanthropist. 8. Write a paragraph on " Mobile Phone".
(b) She started her career as a teacher. 9. A dialogue between two friend about load shedding.
(c) She started writing poems after joining the college. 10. Comple the story and give a suitable title.
(d) She died in Dhaka. "An ant and a dove..........."
(e) ‘Alo O Chhaya’ is one of her novels.

6. Re-arrange the following sentences in correct order.

(a) The Nobel Prize has been given since 1901.(b) In 1850 Alfred Nobel joined his
father’s company.

(c) He earned a lot of money from Dynamite business.

(d) He was an engineer and chemist.

(e) Dr Alfred Nobel was born on 21st October 1833 at Stockholm in Sweden.

(f) This award was named after Alfred Nobel and it was called “Nobel Prize”.

(g) His father Emanuel Nobel was an architect and researcher.

(h) He had ammunition business at Leningrad.(i) He undertook a plan to give an

award for encouraging the creative work for setting up peace in the world.