(1)
Read the following passage carefully,
Reading: Unseen Passages
There are ways and ways of tackling a problem. But governments all over the world prefer only the one from the old stylebook: the carrot-and-stick system. The latest addition to this style of governance comes from the Taiwanese government. Alarmed at the rising obesity levels in the island, the government plans to introduce a fat tax. The Apple Daily, no pun intended here, has reported that Taiwan's Bureau of Health Promotion is in the process of drafting a special tax on foods that are seen as unhealthy like sugar candy, cakes, fast food and alcohol. The funds generated from this tax on junk foods will go to finance health awareness programmes and bankroll the island's health insurance programme
(2) Taiwan is not the only one in this fight against fat in Britain recently, there was a proposal to introduce a chocolate tax. But the plan, thankfully, did not manage to get the British Medical
Association's approval.
(3) Later, a British doctor correctly said that such taxes on junk food only lead to lighter wallets, and not thinner waists. When did any tax stop us from giving up so-called harmful habits? Everyday we are swamped with reports about research that enlightens us about the negatives of everything that's available on this earth. Yes, junk is bad. But then what's pure? Let's get that debate right first. Meanwhile, let not such matters spoil the holiday season for us. Eat, drink and make merryt Everything in moderation is okay. Isn't life all about choices?
q1.What do you understand by the term 'the carrot-and-stick system in the context of passage?
q2.What is the intention behind the Taiwanese government's decision to levy a 'fat tax?
q3Why do you think the author is glad that the proposed 'chocolate tax' did not get the British Medical Association's approval? q4.Why does the author believe that taxes are not effective in checking problems like obesity?
q5.What is the author's advice to the reader in the last paragraph?
Answers
Answer:
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Section: A [Reading]
Read the passage given below.
(10 Mark)
1. Like Bunny and me, perhaps you too are beginning to think twice before having people over
for lunch or dinner. Soaring food prices of everything from tomatoes to tapioca, from
potatoes to pumpkins, are part of the problem, but only part.
2. The real problem is diet. Many, if not most, of the people, you known, gender and age no
bar, are on some sort of diet. To further complicate matters, everyone's on a different die
from everyone else's. In a middle-class India, everyone is becoming health-conscious, diet
are the latest fad and going on a special designer diet is even more fashionable than
snapping selfies with your latest model customized iphone.
3. There's one diet, called the Atkins diet, in which people will eat only proteins (meat, fish
eggs) and veggies, but no cereals or crabs, as carbohydrate are referred to in diatese, the
special language in which dieters speak to each other.
4. Then there are people who'll eat all carbs but won't eat wheat be use wheat has gluten in it.
There are diehard non-vegetarians who become venetians on Tuesday or during certain
phases of the moon. There are vegans who are not only pure vegetarians but won't eat any
animal products, like cheese or Paneer, thought food cooked in ‘asli ghee' is presumably
exempt
5. There's even something called the paleo diet or caveman's diet, in which you are only
allowed to eat what our prehistoric ancestors ate before they invented agriculture. So,
and berries and
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