Read the passage.

Every year in the newspapers we read about people getting Nobel Prize. The prize is named after Alfred
Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, a high explosive to blow up anything. He was born in 1833 and
died in 1896. At first, Nobel was not a wealthy man. However, after his discovery of dynamite, he became rich by
manufacturing and selling dynamite as well as other kinds of high explosive.

One day, Nobel fell ill and during his illness, he thought much about his invention and became sad. He was
sad not because he had invented dynamite but because people were using his invention to kill one another.
Therefore, before he died, he wrote a will. In that will, Nobel said that his money should be used to award prize to
people who have done outstanding work in peace, literature, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Since Nobel’s death, prizes have been awarded every year by the Swedish government to men and women
who have worked hard and have achieved outstanding success in those fields. They are chosen from all over the
world and the prizes are large sums of money. These large sums of money are given to the outstanding workers to
help them continue their work of improving the world. Thus, since that time, writers, physicists, chemists, doctors
and people who work for peace have won Nobel Prize.

The highest award, which is usually a very large sum of money, is given to the person who has done the
greatest service in the cause of international peace

Complete the following sentences.

1) We read about people getting Nobel Prize in the ----------- every year.
2) Dynamites are used to ---------- anything.
3) Nobel was ---------- than his first time after his discovery of dynamite.
4) Nobel was sad about his ---------- of dynamite because people were using it in wrong ways.
5) Nobel said in his ---------- that his money should be awarded to outstanding workers.
6) Since Nobel’s death, Swedish government ---------- prizes to successful people every year.
7) Large amount of ---------- are given as Nobel Prize.
8) The reason of awarding Nobel Prize is to ---------- the world.
9) ---------- kinds of outstanding worker are awarded Nobel Prize.
10) The highest award is given to the people who greatly serve the -----------

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1) What is a Nobel Prize?

2) What was Alfred Nobel? What was his nationality?
3) How old was Alfred Nobel when he died?
4) Why didn’t Nobel like the way people were using his invention?
5) What did Nobel write in his will?
6) Who are the outstanding workers that Nobel wanted his money to award?
7) Are the Nobel prizes only for the people of Sweden?
8) Who gets the highest Nobel Prize?
9) Give a suitable title for this reading passage.
10) Nobel Prize was awarded to a person who is from Myanmar. Who is that person?
Read the passage.

A forest is a large area dominated by trees. Hundreds of more precise definitions of forest are used
throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological
function. According to the widely used Food and Agriculture Organization definition, forests cover four billion
hectares or approximately 30 percent of the world’s land area in 2006. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary
productivity of the earth’s biosphere and contain 80% of the earth’s plant biomass.

Forests at different latitudes and elevations from distinctly different eco zones; bored forests near the poles,
tropical forests near the equator and temperature forests at mid-latitudes. Higher elevation areas tend to support
forest similar to those at higher latitudes and amount of precipitation also affects forest composition.

Human society and forests influence each other in both positive and negative ways. Forests provide
ecosystem services to humans and serve as tourist attractions. Forests can also affect people’s health. Human
authorities, including harvesting forest resources can negatively affect forest ecosystems.

Complete the following sentences.

1) Trees ---------- the forest that is a large area.

2) Tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function are ----------.
3) The amount of four billion hectares is nearly equal to ---------- of the world’s land area.
4) ---------- contain 80% of the earth’s plant biomass.
5) Bored forests are situated near the ----------.
6) Forest composition is ---------- by two factors.
7) Human society can------------ forests in positive or negative ways.
8) Forests serve as ----------.
9) People’s health can also ----------- by forests.
10) Harvesting forest resources can have a ----------- affect on forest ecosystems.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1) What is a forest?
2) Where are hundreds of more precise definitions of forest used?
3) According to the widely used Food and Agriculture Organization, how much did forests cover in 2006?
4) How much do forests account for?
5) Where are tropical forests located?
6) What affects forest composition?
7) In what ways do human society and forests influence each other?
8) What do forests provide to humans?
9) What can forests affect?
10) What can negatively affect forest ecosystems?