The Earth Needs You

 Poem # 1- The Earth Needs You

1. What does the Earth want from human beings?

a) To change the ways to spoil it.

b) To change the ways to save it.

c) To change the ways to look at it.

d) None of these.

2. What difference can you and I make to save the Earth?

a) By stopping the use of single-use plastic.

b) By not dropping the single-use plastic on the ground. 

c) Both a and b

d) Neither a nor b

3. What are some single- use plastic things that we buy and use?

a) bottles

b) buckets

c) carry bags

d) All of the above 

4. 'But it's not very clever.' What according to the poet is not very clever?

a) Oceans

b) Trees

c) single- use plastic

d) none of the above 

5. What happens to the single-use plastic after it is thrown? 

a) It travels around.

b) It lasts forever.

c) The wind let it tangle in trees.

d) All of the above

6. Where does it end up?

a) oceans

b) rivers

c) eas

d) All of the above

7. What harm does it do to the oceans, rivers and trees?

a) It  breaks down.

b) It chokes the flow of water.

c) It melts there. 

d) None of the above 

8. Does it stay where you throw it? 

a) Yes      b) No

9. Why does it not stay where you throw it?

a) because the wind carries it.

b) because the wind doesn't carry it.

c) No reason 

d) None of the above 

10. What does  the poet want you to cut down?

a) Use of polythene

b) Use of single-use plastic 

c) Both a and b

d) Neither a nor b

 ☆ Read the stanzas carefully and answer the following questions. 

A. Single-use plastic 

Lasts almost forever

It might be cheap

 But it's not very clever.

 11.  Who is the poet of this poem?

a) Anonymous 

b) James Shirley 

c) Robert Frost

d) Edgar A. Guest

12. For how long does the plastic last?

a) Never

b) almost forever

c) for a while

d) for a long time

B. If people use less,

 The better place the world would be,

 The future is in your hands ;

Cut down and you will see.

13. What does the poet want you to cut down? 

a) Use of paper material

b) Use of glass 

c) Use of single-use  plastic

d) Trees

14. If people use less plastic , will the world become a better place to live?

a) True   b) False 

15. What is in your hands?

a) future 

b) present 

c) past 

d) no time

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