COMPREHENSION 7

ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS2 FIRST TERM

WEEK SEVEN

THEME: READING

COMPREHENSION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

  1. Give correct answers to passages

CONTENT

Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it

The assault on the purity of the environment is the price that we pay for many of the benefits of modern technology. For the advantages of automotive transportation, we pay a price in smog-induced diseases; for the powerful effects of new insecticides, we pay a price in dwindling wildlife and disturbances in the relation of living things and their surroundings; for nuclear power, we risk the biological hazards of radiation. By increasing agricultural production with fertilizers, we increase water pollution.

The highly developed nations of the world are not only the immediate beneficiaries of the good that technology can do, but they are also the first victims of the environmental diseases that technology.... View More

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