Read the following passage carefully and tick(√) the corresponding box to choose the correct or the best one from the four answers following each question.

Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. They provide him with food and other products; they give him shade, and help prevent drought and floods. 

Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, be bas cut them down in large numbers, only to find that with them he has lost the best friends he had. Two thousand years ago, a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but without its trees, its soil became bard and poor. When the empire fell into pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.

Drought means-

(i) heavy rainfall   (ii) less rainfall   (iii) excessive sunshine    (iv) lack of rainfall

One of the important reasons of cutting down the trees by man is-

(i) illiteracy    (ii) tendency to draw quick profit   (iii) necessity   (iv) whims

Trees help the soil-

(i) to soften   (ii) to loosen  (iii) to harden   (iv) to tighten

After cutting down trees the rich country faced-

(i) famine   (ii) natural calamities  (iii) flood   (iv) famine and floods

The country gained-

(i) wealth    (ii) warship  (iii) the empire   (iv) trees