Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow:
‘Prevention is better than cure,’ and it is
recognized that the only way to get rid of malaria completely is to get rid of
the mosquitoes which cause it. Malaria is always associated with damp and
marshy land. This is not because the land is damp, but because the standing
water is the breeding place of the mosquito, which begins its life as a larva living
in the water. Malaria does not frequently occur in dry desert countries because
mosquitoes cannot breed there. The only way to destroy mosquitoes is to prevent
their breeding in standing water. This can be done by draining all ponds and
pools; and by keeping them covered in the breeding season with a film of kerosene
oil, which by depriving the larvae of air, kills them.
Questions:
(a) Choose the correct alternative:
Malaria is caused by—
(a) marshy land
(b) damp land
(c) standing water
(d) mosquitoes.
(b) (i) What is the verb form of ‘prevention?’
(ii) Make a sentence with it.
(c) What is the opposite word of ‘life’?
(d) What is the breeding place of mosquitoes?
(e) Can malaria occur in desert countries?
