Saturday, 12 October 2019

Read the following passage and then answer the questions:


Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
       Egypt is a country with an area of about one million square kilometers. Most of the land is desert. The amount of rain each year is very small. Only 3% of Egypt - the land watered by the River Nile - can be used for farming. Over 90% of the Egyptians live and work in this small part of the country.
In the past Egypt grew its own food. But now, it has to import more than half the wheat it needs to feed its people. In 1989, the population of Egypt was already around 55 million. With 2 new babies born every minute rid people living linger lives, the population is growing fast - one and a half million new people every year as half of all Egyptians are under 20 years of age, the population will continue to grow.
    Recently an Egyptian newspaper, wrote a report on what life would be like in the year 3015 if the population continues to grow as fast as it is doing now In Cairo people would have to live in tents and travelling from one side of the city to another would take hours . With classes of 100 pupils, schools would have to be open all day to teach everybody .
     To prevent such problems, the government wants people to have smaller families on television it show the ideal family -father, mother and two children. The average family now has a bigger number of children. Families will have to get smaller if the report in that newspaper is not to come true
A. Answer the following questions;
1-Why do most Egyptians live and work in a very small area?
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2-What are the two elements that make population grow at a high rate?
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3-Mention two problems that result from over - population?
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B. Choose the correct answer from a, b, c, or d ;
4 -In the past Egypt produced ....... the wheat it needed.
a) Some of          b) all          c) none of            d) a great deal of
5- If families are. ….… classrooms will be over - crowded with pupils
a) big                     b) small               c) old                    d) new

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