Do the following exercise reading the text - The Rampant of Pesticides of G 10 Comp. English.
Q.N.1. Match the following words with their meanings in the next column.

Column ‘A’                                                               Column ‘B’

a.	Consumption		1.	Assistant
b.	Impotence		2.	Premature expulsion of fetus
c.	Miscarriage		3.	Putting into practice
d.	Ailment		4.	Act of eating or drinking
e.	Entomologist		5.	Illness and deformity
f.	Implementation		6.	Weakness
g.	Deputy		7.	An expert on insects

Q.N.2. Select the best answer from the options given below.

(a)        ………………….. can damage our health condition.

(i)   Uncontrolled poison in vegetable

(ii)  Uncontrolled pesticides in water

(iii) Uncontrolled use of chemicals in veterinary lab

(b) In the first paragraph, the writer says, …….. ‘’thanks to an excessive use ……….’’

The writer’s attitude is ………………. here.

(i)    Sarcasm                           (ii)   Showing happiness                                  (iii)  Unsafe feeling

(c)   The use of pesticides in the vegetables ruins the …………… of vegetables.

(I) shape                                  (ii) taste                                                          (iii) price

(d) Jeevan Praabha Lama works at ……………………….

(i) NARC

(ii) Nepal Agricultural Research Council

(iii) Department of Food Technology and Quality Control

(e) After the application of pesticide in the vegetable, it shouldn’t be consumed for ………………..

(i) a month                                            (ii) a day                                                      (iii) a number of days

Q.N. 3 State whether the following statements are true’ or ‘false.’

(i) All the vegetables found in the market are not safe to eat.

(ii) The vegetable that are used poisons pose a threat to human health.

(iii) The use of pesticides in the vegetables is harmful to both the farmers and the consumers.

(iv) There is an environmental risk when we use poisons in the vegetables.

(v)  Because of the less facilities and lack of staff, they have problems in lab test.

Q.N.4. Choose the correct answer to the following questions.

(a) Why is the vegetable available in the market not safe?

i. because of unnecessary quantity of chemicals used during the crops cultivation.

ii. because the used amount of pesticide is less than necessity.

iii. due to dirty and dingy market place where vegetable is sold.

(b) What is the designation of Ram Babu Paneru?

i. a vegetable farmer

ii. a vegetable broker.

iii. an agro scientist.

(c) How are the farmers using pesticides?

i. properly in appropriate time and quantity.

ii. carelessly and excessively.

iii. with the recommendation of agronomists.

(d) Where has Mr. Paneru recently visited?

i. major vegetable markets in Nepal.

ii. major vegetable production centres.

iii. farmers’ training centres.

(e) What are the effects to human beings if they eat the vegetables that are used the chemicals?

i. it affects the nervous system and can cause weakness in people.

ii. it may cause liver and kidney failure.

iii. there might be disabilities in children and miscarries in women.

iv. it might cause diseases related to skin, heart and eyes.

v. all effects mentioned above.

(f) What information was Mr. Pradhan shocked to hear?

i. the farmers use pesticides excessively.

ii. farmers use pesticides in wrong intervals.

iii. farmers mix different pesticides, insecticides and vitamins together before spraying them.

(g) Whom and for what did Dr. Shree Baba Pradhan blame?

i. to the farmers for using pesticides indifferently.

ii. to the government for not implementing the policies strictly and the sorry state of affairs.

iii.  to the grocers for selling infected vegetables.

(h) What suggestion did Dr. Pradhan suggest us?

i. shopkeepers should be warned against the sale of poisoned vegetable.

ii. the quantity of poison in vegetable should be tested in well facilitated labs by well trained experts.

iii. the consumers should be conscious about their rights & agro vets their duties conducting trainings.