JKBOSE Class 6 English Tulip Prose Chapter 7 Reusing the waste Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 6 English Solution Chapter 7 Reusing the waste all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 6 Standard can download all Answer.
WORKING WITH THE TEXT
I.) Answer these questions:
- Why should we recycle things?
Answer: We recycle because it can save us from the hazards of pollution.
2.) Why is it easy to recycle plastic or metal?
Answer: Metal and plastic get melted when burnt so it becomes easy to recycle both of them.
3.) Why is plastic dangerous for health?
Answer: Plastic is quite dangerous for health. Certain chemical leaks from plastic get into water making it unfit for use. Also when plastic is thrown, it gets into soil, chokes drains and waterways. When animals eat such things, they lose their lives.
4.) What are the benefits of recycling paper?
Answer: The benefit of recycling paper is that we can save our forests, which is crucial for environmental balance.
5.) Two ways of recycling glass are mentioned in the text. What are they?
Answer: The way in which recycling glass is to re-melting it in furnaces and it can be made into new bottles or other objects.
6.) For what purposes can waste water be easily reused?
Answer: Waste water can be easily reused in agriculture after purifying it.
7.) Mention the efforts that India is making in recycling things.
Answer: In India, efforts are on to re-utilise and recycle the waste through treatment plants in many parts of the country. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) at Nagpur is also involved in developing suitable technologies for the treatment of waste-water, and utilisation of domestic and industrial waste-water in agriculture after purifying it. One purifying plant in Gujarat is able to treat 450, 000 litres of waste daily and generating energy equal to that produced by 10 tonnes of coal.
II.) Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Put or in the boxes:
1.) The Americans can save seventy-five thousand trees if they recycle New York
Times’ Sunday issue. Right
2.) We cannot recycle plastic. Wrong
3.) ‘Cullet’ is another name for broken glass. Right
4.) Paper waste makes one-fourth of world’s total waste. Right
5.) The Swiss and the Dutch recover 50% of their glass from recycling. Right
6.) India needs to do more to recycle her waste. Right
Now guess the meanings of the underlined expressions in the following sentences. You can use a dictionary if necessary.
i.) The school is celebrating its bicentenary next week.
Meaning – Marking a 200th anniversary
ii.) He’s been imprisoned for his anti-government views.
Meaning – Opposed to or hostile toward governments or a particular government
iii.) The President will address the post-lunch session of the parliament.
Meaning – After lunch
iv.) Many employees were arrested for non-payment of their taxes.
Meaning – A failure to pay a sum of money that you owe
v.) This note from Grandpa is almost illegible.
Meaning – Impossible or almost impossible to read because of being very untidy or not clear
vi.) I don’t like that boy. He’s very impolite.
Meaning – Rude
vii.) We’ll have to re-organise the groups to accommodate more girls.
Meaning – To organize something again in order to improve it
Now complete this list by putting a/an or some before the words:
an egg some cheese
1.) An apple 6. A fly
2.) Some sweets 7. An orange
3.) Some bread 8. Some bananas
4.) Some meat 9. Some rice
5.) Some sugar 10. A pen
II.) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in the brackets. You will need to use is/am/are and add -ing to the main verb.
The President is addressing (address) the nation on the eve of Independence Day.
This speech is likely to interest everybody. He is calling upon(call upon) people to
fight narrow-mindedness, illiteracy and poverty. All the TV channels are telecasting (telecast) the address live. If you wish, you can listen to the speech from any of the channels in your home. After his speech, the President is leaving (leave) for Chennai where he is inaugurating (inaugurate) the newly-built hospital building.
The Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues are accompanying(accompany) him to Chennai. I am going (go) to listen to the address as soon as it is telecast. My friends, Hameed and Tashi, are coming (come) to my home. You know, they don’t have a TV set in their hostel. If you like, you can come too.