01. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Food can maintain and save life. It can destroy life as well. Proper food serves as medicine,
improper food works as poison. A little care about the quality and quantity of food will keep us
healthy and happy. If we go about eating all sorts of things, we shall become sick. We take pride in
calling ourselves civilized Being sensible means to know the difference between good and bad, right
and wrong. It will not do to become slaves to our tongue or taste Even cattle, birds and beasts eat
only what is the best for their body.
We mostly eat processed food and refined sugar. We pay heavily for junk food, for Chinese
dishes or deep fried snacks. As a result we catch diseases. We have drifted away from mother nature
We laugh at the rules of hygiene, healthy diet and the advice of our elders. This has given rise to
diabetes. We offer chocolates, cakes and ice creams too often to our children. We also attend parties
or dine out every day. This way we invite obesity and diabetes.
Answer the following questions:-
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(5x2M=10
(a) What are the functions of food?
(b) What is meant by improper food?
(c) What does 'civilised life' mean?
(d) How does modem life style and food habits affect us?
(e) Find words from the passage that mean the same as
(1) being fat (ii) cleanliness
Answers
(a) Food can maintain and save life. Proper food serves
as medicine. It keep us healthy and happy.
(b) Improper food is that which cause diseases like junk food.
(c) Civilised life means the way of life that treats the people who live there fairly or we can say it a fair justice.
(d) The modern lifestyle have drifted away from our mother nature. We mostly eat processed food and refined sugar. We pay heavily for junk food, for Chinese
dishes or deep fried snacks. As a result we catch diseases.
(e) (i) being fat - obesity
(ii) cleanliness - hygiene
Explanation:
2) we mostly eat junk food which is bad for our health
it gives us various kind of diseases we have to know difference between good and bad ,right and wrong.it will not to become slaves to our tongue and taste