RC: Environment - 1 | Verbal Ability (VA) & Reading Comprehension (RC) - CAT PDF Download

Passage

Direction: The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
The environment is the natural and physical surroundings that sustain life on Earth. The environment includes living organisms, such as plants, animals, and humans, as well as non-living elements, such as air, water, soil, and climate. The environment is constantly changing due to natural processes, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, and droughts, as well as human activities, such as deforestation, urbanization, industrialization, and pollution.
The environment provides various benefits and services to humans, such as food, water, oxygen, raw materials, energy, recreation, and aesthetic value. However, the environment also poses various challenges and risks to humans, such as natural disasters, diseases, pests, and climate change. Therefore, humans need to interact with the environment in a balanced and sustainable way, that is, in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
One of the main ways that humans interact with the environment is through environmental management, which is the process of planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating actions that affect the environment. Environmental management aims to protect, conserve, restore, and enhance the quality and diversity of the environment for the benefit of humans and other living beings. Environmental management involves various stakeholders, such as governments, businesses, communities, and individuals, who have different roles and responsibilities in managing the environment.
Another way that humans interact with the environment is through environmental education, which is the process of developing awareness, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values about the environment and its issues. Environmental education aims to foster environmental literacy, which is the ability to understand and act upon environmental problems and solutions. Environmental education also aims to promote environmental citizenship, which is the commitment to participate in environmental decision-making and action. Environmental education can take place in formal or informal settings, such as schools, museums, parks, or media.
Q1: According to the passage, what is one of the natural processes that can change the environment?
(a) Volcanic eruptions
(b) Deforestation
(c) Industrialization
(d) Pollution

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Q2: According to the passage, what is one of the benefits and services that the environment provides to humans?
(a) Food
(b) Recreation
(c) Oxygen
(d) All of the above

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Q3: According to the passage, what is one of the aims of environmental education?
(a) To protect, conserve, restore, and enhance the quality and diversity of the environment.
(b) To foster environmental literacy, which is the ability to understand and act upon environmental problems and solutions.
(c) To plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate actions that affect the environment.
(d) To participate in environmental decision-making and action.

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Q4: According to the passage, what is one of the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in environmental management?
(a) To develop awareness, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values about the environment and its issues.
(b) To map the sounds of speech to the letters of print.
(c) To segment and blend words into syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes.
(d) To manage the environment in a balanced and sustainable way.

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