Q.5-1. Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context. Q.5-2. Locate the lines in text that support the title. 'The Ailing Planet'. Q.5-3. What does the notice 'The world's most dangerous animal' at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify? Q.5-4. How are the earth's principal biological systems being depleted? Q.5-5. Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society? Q.5-6. Laws are never respected not enforced in India. Q.5-7. “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?” Q.5-8. “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children”. Q.5-9. The problems of over population that directly affect our everyday life. Q.5-10. The phrase 'inter alia' meaning 'among other things' is one of the many Latin expression commonly used in English. Q.5-11. Locate the following words in the text and study their connotation. Q.5-12. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’. ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ have a literal as well as a figurative meaning.