SURFACE
About two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is water. Land, therefore, covers a comparatively small area of our planet. The world population is increasing very rapidly. Only half the world population today can afford enough of the right kind of food. The amount of food that people eat also varies considerably. A worker in the U.S.A., for example, eats three and a half times as much food a day as a farmer in the poor countries of Asia. But we can solve this problem. By proper methods of irrigation and cultivation, more food can be grown. But we shall have to control the growth of population also
Answer the following questions briefly:
1. How much of the world’s surface island?
2. What shall we have to do to feed the increasing population?
3. Why don’t we have enough food for everyone?
4. How many people in the world can afford the right kind of food?
5. How much does a worker in the U.S.A. eat as compared to a fanner in a poor country of Asia?
6.Which word in the passage means ‘much’ or ‘a lot’?
Answers
1.One-third.
2. We shall have to produce more and more food.
3.Because our population is increasing at a very fast rate.
4.Only half
5.Three and a half times as much as a farmer in a poor country eats.
6.Considerably.
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