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Gen English 2023
The document is an examination paper for a B.Sc./B.C.A. course focusing on Generic English, specifically addressing the environmental movement's history and impact. It highlights the movement's growth since the 1960s, its successes in legislation and public support, particularly in the United States. The paper includes a passage to read and questions related to the content.
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an AECC - 2.2
1 Semester [Link]./B.C.A, Examination, February/March 2023
(NEP)
ENGLISH
Paper — 1: Generic English (L2)
Time : 2% Hours Max. Marks : 60
Instructions : 1) Answer all questions.
2) Mention the question numbers correctly.
SECTION—A
|. Read the passage and answer the following questions. 5
The environmental movement is a child of the sixties that has stayed its course.
‘Alone among the movements of the sixties, it has gained steadily in power,
prestige, and what is perhaps most important public appeal.
Popular support apart, the success of the environmental movement is also
reflected in the forest and wild areas it has helped to set aside, as well asin the
laws it has repealed or got enacted, nowhere more effectively than in the United
States of America. In this country, the pressure of environmentalists, rather than
autonomous government action, has created an extensive and for the most
part well managed system of National parks. Having protected large chunks
of wilderness from the threat of ‘development’ the American environmental
movement has increasingly turned its attention to controlling the hazardous
byproducts of industrialization: air, water pollution, and the production of toxic
or radioactive wastes. Here too it has been conspicuously successful, forcing
‘Congress to enact over seventy environmental measures into law. Among these
is the Nationa! Environmental Protection Act, of 1969, a comprehensive piece
of legislation that envies the environmentalists in other countries who struggle
to enforce minimum standards on their own Governments.
While opinion polls consistently show over two-thirds of the public in support
of even stricter environmental measures — and willing to part with some hard —
earned dollars in the cause — the green agenda is also influencing the outcome
of local, State, and federal elections. Politicians from both parties assiduously
project a green image and cultivate a green constituency.
1) When did the environmental movement begin ?
2) The American environmental movement has increasingly turned its attention
to controlling the hazardous
Pro.
