Question

1-Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the

most appropriate option from those given below- ( 5 X 1=5 marks) Much more medical

science discovered it, Readers Digest came, out with the prescription Laughter is the best

medicine. Newspapers and magazines which regularly run humour columns are , therefore,

doing their bit to keep the readers in good health. Reading light articles, whether they be

satirical, comic or just humorous, relieves the tedium of work-a-day world. It is said that if you

laugh for ten minutes you will be in the better position to put up with pen for two hours.

According to US researchers laughter is a good antidote to stress and let tones up the

system. Facial laugh muscles instruct the brain to feel good regardless of how you feel. Some

people in France have made it a career. You can hire a jovialist who cracks jokes and laughs

and promises to make you dissolve your worries. In helpless laughter, word of caution.

Although laughing is a good exercise of toning up the facial muscles, laughing at others’

expense, particularly at their disabilities, is in bad taste and is to be avoided. Secondly,

laughing with food in mouth is dangerous as the foodstuff can get into the windpipe and may

choke the respiration system. Eating anyway, is a serious business to be trifled with by any

jocular diversion. Laughter comes best when it is free from encumbrances, whether it is

constricting food or the need to humour the boss.

Which word in the passage means the same as doctors’ written instruction ?
(i) Encumbrances

(ii) Antidote

(iii) Tedium

(iv) Prescription​

Answer 1

Answer:

iv) Prescription

it had to be at least 20 characters so is there any army here?

Answer 2

Answer:

the correct answer is prescription