IBPS SO | LIC AAO | ENGLISH QUIZ - 12

Directions (Q. 1-15): Read the given passage carefully and answer the given question certain words/phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions

Tropical rainforests once covered more than 14 percent of the Earth’s land area which has now reduced to less than 6 percent. The rainforests of the world are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute, day and night resulting in major climatic and other environmental changes if this continues.
The rainforests are very important to the world for many reasons. One major reason is that the plants in the forest turn carbon dioxide into clean air _ which helps fight pollution. Also by absorbing carbon dioxide, the rainforests reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in atmosphere thus deterring the greenhouse effect. The destruction of the rainforests releases carbon dioxide, which in turn causes the greenhouse effect to occur. The greenhouse effect raises the temperatures all around the world and can cause ice caps to melt. When ice caps melt, the sea level rises, causing major flooding around the world. The rainforest is full of diversity when it comes to the plants and animals that inhabit it. Many are found nowhere else on Earth. These species have extremely valuable medical properties. The only known cure for certain diseases come from species of plants found in the rainforests.
The cause of the destruction of the rainforest was put very simply by the Forest Alliance of British Columbia as “The global population has more than tripled this century, and will continue to grow for the next 50 years particularly in developing countries. World population is expected to reach ten billion by 2050 “ Because the number of people living on the planet increases every year the number of forest products needed also increases forcing temperate and tropical rainforests to be cut down.
Farmers in rainforest countries are often poor and can’t afford to buy land, instead these farmers’ clear rainforests and use the land to grow their, crops. Because tropical rainforest soil is very poor in nutrients, farmers cannot reuse the same land year after year In following years, farmers just clear more land, destroying the forest piece by piece.
Ranching also causes destruction of the rainforests Ranchers clear large areas of rainforest to make pastures for their cattle “During the 1980s an area of about 16.9 million hectares of tropical rainforest was cut down and turned into farms and grazing land for cattle.
The third major traditional reason for destruction of the rainforests is logging. Trees from the rainforest are used for building houses making furniture, and providing pulp for paper products, such as newspapers and magazines
The Amazon rainforest is the only rainforest which still remains as it was years ago with less destruction occurring than in many other forests because it is very large and remote. But the Amazon may not remain so peaceful for long Transnational corporations are now targeting the Amazon and the other rainforests because of the latest problem of rainforest destruction : Greed Corporation shave convinced many rainforest countries that it would improve their economies by allowing the companies to use the land for commercial purpose and now these countries’ economies have become dependent on it Oil companies often attempt to trick and bribe the indigenous tribes into signing over to them the rights of the land If steps are to be taken for stopping rainforest destruction, one of the most effective ways would be worldwide boycott of furniture products made from ebony, rosewood, mahogany and teakwood because these in most cases come from the rainforests.

1). Which of the following can be the most appropriate title of the given passage?
a) Causes of floods around the world
b) Destruction of the rainforests
c) The ranching of rainforests
d) Effect of population growth.
e) The Amazon rainforest

2). Which of the following is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used inthe passage? INHABIT
a) Practice
b) cohabit
c) Survive
d) Dwell in
e) Strive

3). Which of the following is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word given in bold as used in the passage? DISAPPEARING
a) Arriving
b) Approaching
c) Growing
d) Encountering
e) Discovering

4). Which of the following is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word given in bold as used in the passage? REMOTE
a) Short
b) Outskirts
c) Contiguous
d) Impeding
e) Nearby

5). Which of the following is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage? DETERRING
a) Intimidating
b) Preventing
c) Protecting
d) Releasing
e) Altering

6). Which of the following is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word given in bold as used in the passage? INDIGENOUS
a) Foreign
b) Strange
c) Educated
d) Unnatural
e) Distant

7). Which of the following is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage? CLEAR
a) Neat
b) Pure
c) Smooth
d) Tidy
e) Cut

8). How has ranching resulted in the destruction of the rainforests?
a) By clearing land of rainforests piece by piece for farming every year.
b) By setting up oil fields and increasing the salinity of the soil thus making it unfit for the vegetation of the rainforests to grow.
c) By clearing large areas of the rainforests in order to make pastures for the cattle.
d) By encroaching the land and using it for commercial purpose by setting up big industries
e) None

9). Which of the following is not true in context of the passage?
a) By the middle of this century the population will reach around ten billion.
b) Many international companies have lured the governments of the countries having the rainforests in such a way that their economies depend on them now.
c) The total percentage of rainforests which once existed on earth has now reduced to less than half.
d) The destruction of rainforests leads to flooding across the globe
e) All are true

10). Why has there been a concern over the destruction of rainforests?
(A) Owing to cutting of trees, many dangerous animals stray into the nearby villages.
(B) An increase in temperature throughout the world has lead to many environmental problems
(C) Cutting down the rainforests leaves the soil of the forest poor in nutrients and thus uncultivable.
(D) Many exotic species of plants and animals are found in the rainforest only and nowhere else
a) Both (A) and (C)
b) Only(C)
c) Only (B) and (D)
d) All (A), (B), (C) and (D)
e) None

11). According to the passage how are the transnational companies harming the rainforests?
a) By digging for oil in the rainforest these companies make the soil infertile for farming
b) The international companies transfer the profit earned by using the rainforest’s land to their own country rather than providing it to the country having the rainforest.
c) The international companies have been smuggling precious wood such as Ebony and teakwood etc.
d) By bribing and tricking the government and the tribes of the countries having rainforests to provide them with the right of rainforest’s land.
e) None

12). Which of the following has/have been the causes of destruction of rainforests?
(A) Clearing up the forests in order to use it for farming
(B) Population growth.
(C) Cutting of trees for making paper and furniture etc.
(D) Clearing up the forests for making pastures for the cattle.
a) Only (A) and (C)
b) Only (B), (C) and (D)
c) Both (A) and (B)
d) All (A), (B), (C) and (D)
e) None

13). Why don’t the farmers continue to use the same piece of land available after clearing the rainforest for raising yield every year?
(A) The powerful and greedy corporations lure the farmers to sell off their lands.
(B) The nutrient deficient soil makes it unusable the following year.
(C) The rainforest are too dense and dangerous to continue farming in the same place for a long time
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Both (A) and (C)
d) Both (B) and (C)
e) None

14). Arrange the following sentences in the sequence which most appropriately explains its contextual reference in the passage?
(A) This increases its concentration in the air which alleviates the greenhouse effect
(B) This in turn melts the ice caps, resulting in floods around the world
(C)The destruction of rainforests decreases the consumption of carbon dioxide by trees.
(D) The green house effect raises the temperature substantially.
a) CADB
b) DABC
c) CDAB
d) DACB
e) None

15). Why does the author suspect that the Amazon rainforests may not remain peaceful for a longtime?
a) The increase in greenhouse effect will affect Amazon rainforest more adversely than any other forest owing to its geographic location.
b) Its proximity to some major cities of the country will soon result in its destruction in order to expand these cities
c) Various international organizations would eye the Amazon rainforest for buying its land rights and using it for commercial purposes.
d) Its proximity to some major cities of the country will soon result in its destruction in order to expand these cities and various international organizations would eye the Amazon rainforest for buying its land rights and using it for commercial purposes
e) None

ANSWERS :-

1.b
2.d
3.c
4.e
5.b
6.a
7.e
8.c
9.e
10.c
11.d
12.b
13.b
14.a
15.c