English for Toady

নবম-দশম শ্রেণি (মাধ্যমিক) - English for Toady | NCTB BOOK

490.

Read the following text and answer the questions no. 2 and 3.

Countries of the world rely heavily on petroleum, coal and natural gas for their energy sources, There are two major types of energy sources: renewable and non-renewable. Hydrocarbon or fossil fuels are non-renewable sources of energy. Reliance on them poses real big problems. First. fossil fuels such as oll, coal, gas, etc. are finite energy resources and the world eventually will run out of them. Secondly, they will become too expensive in the coming decades and too damaging for the environment. Thirdly, fossil fuels have direct polluting impacts on earth's environment causing global warming. In contrast, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy are constantly and naturally replenished and never run out.

Most renewable energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun . Sunlight or solar energy can be used for heating and lighting homes, for generating electricity and for other commercial and Industrial uses.

Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text. 

  People (a) ---- the world are habituated to using two major types of energy sources. They are (b) --- as renewable and non-renewable. Non-renewable energy sources are very harmful (c) ---- our nature. (d) ---- they are burnt, they produce different types of pollutants which are very (e) ---- for our environment. These kinds of energy sources are (f) ----. With the passage of time. they will be (g) ---- and very expensive. They are also (h) ---- for global warming. (i) ---- the other hand, renewable energy sources are very (j) ---- and environment friendly.

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492.

Read the passage from the text and complete the following table with information from the passage.

A was late summer, 26 August 1910. A little girl was born to a rich Catholic merchants' family of .5×6=3 Albanian descent in aul town called Skopje, Macedonia. She was the youngest of the girl siblings and was named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Who could imagine at the time that this lates would one day become the mother of humanity, loving and serving the poorest of the poor? Yes. we are talking about none other than Mother Teresa. 

At the age of 12, she heard a voice from within that urged her to spread the love of Christ. She decided that she would be a missionary. At the age of 18, she left her parental home. She then joined an Irish community of nuns called the Sisters of Loreto, which had missions in India After a few months of training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin. Mother Teresa came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught geography and theology at St. Mary's High School in Kolkata (then Calcutta) However, the widespread poverty in Kolkata had a deep Impact on Mother Teresa and in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent and devote herself to caring for the poorest of the poor in the slums of Kolkata. For her contribution to humanity, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died at the age of 87, on 5 September 1997.

Biography of Mother Teresa

AimServing the helpless people
Lifespan1910 (i) ---    
WhoEvent/ActivityWhenPlaceReasonAward
Mother Teresa(ii) ----1910Skopje in Macedonia  
She(iii) ----1928   
Shetaught geography and theology (iv) ----  
(v) ---was taken by her1931   
Sheachieved1979 (vi) ---Nobel Peace Prize

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