Test 1-Sr.1-Jun.4

[1] Bisman Deu was born in North India. She wanted to know about everything around her when

she was a child. So, she always asked questions. Later, when she was a high school student, she

(1)         a wonderful solution to very difficult problems in her hometown.

Bisman’s father and mother were farmers and grew rice. One evening, when Bisman was

walking outside, she saw a lot of smoke. The smoke was from (2) rice waste. Many farmers in her

hometown grew rice. They usually burned the rice waste after the harvest. She (1)            the smoke

was not good for people’s health. Then, she (1)             that her town had very bad air pollution. She

wanted to know how to stop (3) it.

1. Write a word for (1)                      

2. What is it (2)? Write in Japanese.

3. What does (3) it refer to? Write in English.

[2] (1)      , Bisman began to collect rice waste and study about it. When she was collecting rice waste, she saw many poor people in her town. They lived in small old houses and didn’t have enough

money to build new houses. She thought, “Can I make something useful for those people? They

need something cheap and strong to build houses. If I can recycle the rice waste, I can help those

poor people and stop the air pollution.”(2)       , she started to put different materials in the rice

waste. (3)        she tried many different ideas to make a model product.

(4)        many days, Bisman made the first model product. It was made from rice waste.  

She (5)        it Green Wood because it looked like wood. However, it was still (6)           and         . 

She had to improve it, and it was very hard for her to do that alone. She asked two friends to join her work. She was happy to have their help, but there were still many things to do to improve Green Wood. She worked hard with them to make Green Wood better.

4. Write a word or words for the boxes. (1) ~ (4)

5. Write a suitable word for (5)                       

6. Write a suitable word before and after “and” (6)                      and