1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B The river Buriganga is an example of a dying river. A report published in the Daily Sun describes what has happened to the river Buriganga and why. It’s water is polluted and a perpetual stench fills the air around it. But that is not what it was like before. The report says that the river had a glorious past. Once it was a tributary of the mighty Ganges and flowed into the Bay of Bengal through the river Dhaleshwari. Gradually, it lost its link with the Ganges and got the name Buriganga. The Mughals marveled at the tide level of the Buriganga and founded their capital Jahangirnagar on its banks in 1610. The river supplied drinking water and supported trade and commerce. Jahangirnagar was renamed Dhaka which grew into a heavily populated city with a chronic shortage of space. The city paid back the bounty of the river by sucking life out of it! According to newspaper report, the Buriganga is dying because of pollution. Huge quantities of toxic chemicals and wastes from mills and factories, hospitals and clinics and households and other establishments are dumped into the river every day. The city of Dhaka discharges about 4500 tons of solid waste every day and most of it is directly released into the Buriganga. According to the Department of the Environment (DoE), 20.000 tons of tannery waste, including some highly toxic materials, are released into the river every day. Experts identified nine industrial areas in and around the capital city as the primary sources of river pollution: Tongi. Tejgaon, Hazaribagh, Tarabo, Narayanganj. Savar, Gazipur, Dhaka Export Processing Zone and Ghorashal. The river would need a monster’s stomach to digest all the wastes mentioned above. There is a limit up to which it can put up its cruel and thoughtless treatment. We the humans have successfully killed one of our rivers. There are other rivers in the country that are being subjected to similar thoughtless treatment. Unless we take care of our rivers there may come a time when we will cry ‘water, water 'and find it nowhere. \\ \boxed{\mathbf{~A~}} Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. (a) The word ‘tributary’ mentioned in the passage means. (i) rivulet (ii) lake (iii) pond (iv) estuary (b) The word ‘marvelled’ mentioned in the passage means. (i) offended (ii) grief-stricken (iii) overwhelmed (iv) hurt (c) The word ‘toxic’ mentioned in the passage means. (i) tasty (ii) healthy (iii) moderate (iv) poisonous (d) How did Dhaka city pay back the bounty of the river? (i) By cleaning the river (ii) By polluting the river (iii) By purifying its water (iv) By making it glorious (e) The word ‘Identified' in the passage means. (i) excluded (ii) traced out (iii) carried out (iv) teased \\ \boxed{\mathbf{~B~}} Answer the following questions. (a) According to the passage, what happened in the year 1610 ? (b) What according to the experts, are the primary sources of river pollution in and around Dhaka city? (c) What amount of solid waste is produced in Dhaka city and where does it go? (d) What does DoE say? (e) What may happen if we do not take care of our rivers?