Comprehension.
Space travel is far the most expensive type of exploration ever under taken by the man. The vast expenditure of money and human efforts now being devoted to projects for putting man into space might well be applied to ends more practically useful and more conducive t human happiness. It is a strange world in which tens of millions of pounds are spent to give a man a ride round the earth at thousands of miles an hour, while beneath him in his orbit live millions for whom life is a daily struggle to win a few coins to buy their daily struggle. The money and efforts that o into the development and construction of a single type of space rocket would more than suffice to rid several countries of such scourges as malaria or typhoid fever, to name only two of diseases that medical science has conquered but which still persist in the world simply because not enough money and effort are devoted to the eradication. Why should the richer countries of the world be pouring their recourses into space when poverty and diseases on the earth are crying out of relief? One could a cynical answer to this question and assert that man s’ expensive adventures into space are merely the byproducts of the struggle between great powers for prestige and possible military advantage.
Questions
i. Why is it a strange world?
ii. Why do malaria and typhoid still exist in the world?
iii. Why is man pouring his recourses into space?
iv. Suggest a suitable title for the passage?
v. Make a précis of the above passage?
Space travel is far the most expensive type of exploration ever under taken by the man. The vast expenditure of money and human efforts now being devoted to projects for putting man into space might well be applied to ends more practically useful and more conducive t human happiness. It is a strange world in which tens of millions of pounds are spent to give a man a ride round the earth at thousands of miles an hour, while beneath him in his orbit live millions for whom life is a daily struggle to win a few coins to buy their daily struggle. The money and efforts that o into the development and construction of a single type of space rocket would more than suffice to rid several countries of such scourges as malaria or typhoid fever, to name only two of diseases that medical science has conquered but which still persist in the world simply because not enough money and effort are devoted to the eradication. Why should the richer countries of the world be pouring their recourses into space when poverty and diseases on the earth are crying out of relief? One could a cynical answer to this question and assert that man s’ expensive adventures into space are merely the byproducts of the struggle between great powers for prestige and possible military advantage.
Questions
i. Why is it a strange world?
ii. Why do malaria and typhoid still exist in the world?
iii. Why is man pouring his recourses into space?
iv. Suggest a suitable title for the passage?
v. Make a précis of the above passage?
