A.1. Answer the following questions very briefly. 1. What is pollution?

2. How does pollution affect the environment?

3. How does the reduction of the ozone layer affect us?.
4. Mention four different kinds of pollution.

5. What are the two chief causes of environmental pollution?

6. What is the main cause of water pollution?
7. Mention any two causes of noise pollution.
8. What is the most disturbing consequence of increasing pollution?

A.2. Which words in the passage mean the following?

1. dangerous.
2. disproportion
3. intrusion
4. permanent

Which words best describes the speakers?

Ihave only a christmas cards left to write. a. few b. fewer c. less d. little

How does the poem "the lady of shalott" by alfred, lord tennyson convey the position of victorian women? a curse is on her if she stay to look down to camelot. she knows not what the curse may be, and so she weaveth steadily, and little other care hath she, the lady of shalott. and moving thro' a mirror clear that hangs before her all the year, shadows of the world appear. there she sees the highway near winding down to camelot: there the river eddy whirls, and there the surly village churls, and the red cloaks of market girls, pass onward from shalott. a. most victorian women were restricted to their homes. b. victorian women were confined to domestic duties. c. most victorian women worked hard but were often bored. d. victorian women employed themselves by weaving.