ZZZE1002 FOUNDATION ENGLISH
NAME : NURUL AZIMAH BINTI NAEN
MATRIC NO. : A144663
SET : 35
Learning
Task 1
Question
1
Choose
an article (500-700 words) of your interest from the internet. Identify 5 words for each of the
following
parts of speech:
Environmental Pollution
To
pollute, literally,
means to defile or
make dirty. The addition of
undesirable or unclean elements to the environment causes an imbalance and
leads to pollution.
This
imbalance has not only led
to deterioration in the quality of our lives but
has also threatened the very survival of all life. If this imbalance grows
beyond a certain limit, it may prove fatal. The ever and rapidly increasing
pollution is a matter of global concern, because it is not confined to a
particular country, region or land. It is a threat to the whole world and must
be fought united.
The
problem of pollution is all the more acute in our overcrowded towns and cities. The
ever-growing consumerism has further worsened the problem. The biosphere and
ecosystem of cities and towns is fast losing its self-sustaining power. The rapid
industrialisation of the cities has made them almost unfit for living. They are full of smoke, noxious fumes,
dirt, dust, rubbish, corrosive gases, foul smell and deafening noise. The burning of
various fuels in the factories and mills releases of a great amount of
sculpture-dioxide in the air cause serious pollution. For example, in Delhi, a
large part of the population suffers from respiratory and related disorders. In
other metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, the situation is no
better. The thousands of vehicles spewing smoke and producing unbearable noise
in Delhi have aggravated the situation manifold. Delhi is symptomatic of the growing
urban pollution and chaos in the country. The same fate awaits other cities of
the country.
Since
most of our cities are on the banks of the rivers or the coast, our rivers and seas too have turned murky
and polluted and fishes and other creatures living in them are found rotting on
the shores. The atmosphere
in the cities is saturated with such pollutants as carbon monoxide, oxides of sculpture and nitrogen, hydrocarbons, pesticides,
fly-ash, soot and sometimes, radioactive substances. The air is also choked
with foul smells and toxic fumes. These have found their way into our
foodstuffs. The toxic chemicals, industrial wastes and effluents discharged
into rivers and seas from the mills and factories have proved fatal to marine
life. Heaps of garbage, rising in ugly mounds in the cities, tells a story of our blind, foolish
and lopsided urban growth and development. Our villages, too, are not free from
this ecological degradation. They have lost much of their forests and pastures.
This depletion of natural resources and imbalance in ecology will make our
cities collapse under their own weight of
contradictions.
In
order to check water
pollution, the sewerage and factory effluents and waste should be properly
treated and cleaned before being discharged into streams, rivers and seas.
Chemical industries should not be allowed to be located on the banks of the rivers and the coasts. There should be strict
rules in regard to the observation of pollution rules and regulations, and the
guilty should be severely punished. Gradually, people are becoming more and more aware of the
growing problem of pollution. It is reflected in the first Act passed by the
Indian Government in 1974, to have control over
water pollution. Then in 1980 another Act was passed to prevent air pollution.
And, finally, the
Department of Environment was created as an independent agency in November
1980, to look after the environmental needs. But the measures, so far, to check
environmental pollution have been more or less symbolic and half-hearted.
In
order to fight this
menace, vigorous efforts should be made and anti-pollution laws should be
strictly practiced. More needs to be done through mass media in order to seek
people’s participation in the movement.
Pollution holds out a great threat and danger to us and to the generations to
come. Therefore, it
should be fought tooth and nail. The use of solar and wind energy should be encouraged because it is
clean and
pollution-free. The awareness against the scourge seems to be growing but it
needs to be matched with nationwide pollution control measures.
Nouns
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environment
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towns
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rivers
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seas
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atmosphere
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Verbs
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make
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led
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check
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fight
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use
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Adjectives
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dirty
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fast
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noise
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ugly
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clean
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Adverbs
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literally
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rapidly
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gradually
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finally
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therefore
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Prepositions
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of
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under
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on
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over
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in
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Conjunctions
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to
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or
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and
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but
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for
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