Question

I. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Just by the use of colours, you can balance your diet. All you need to do is to pay a little attention to the food you eat. Nutrition experts strongly recommend adding colours to your diet. Sweets and candy bars are generally colourful, but remember they do not contain natural colours, and hence, are not healthy. The key to good health is a variety of naturally-coloured foods. The deeper the colour the greater the benefits. Getting more colours in your diet doesn’t mean you have to drastically change your current eating habits. Have a glass of 100% juice in the morning. Keep a mix of dry fruits at hand for a quick snack. Grab into the habit of starting your dinner with a salad. Eat fruits for dessert. Always add greens to sandwiches.
Most red fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, which offer protection against ultraviolet rays and cancer, and helps prevent urinary tract infections and diseases related to the circulatory system. Green vegetables, along with being appealing, possess excellent antioxidant properties that protect the eyes by keeping the retina in good condition and reduce the risk of cancerous tumours. The orange and yellow group of fruits and vegetables is rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant that improves cell communication, and thereby, helps stop the spread of cancer. The blue and purple group adds an element of richness to the plate, besides influencing the pineal gland (the third eye) and the nervous system. The white group contains sulphur compounds that protect the DNA and flavonoids, and antioxidant that protects cell membranes.
Therefore, the more colourful your diet, the better equipped your immune system would be to cope with diseases.
On the basis of your reading of the given passage answer the following questions:
(a) Sweets and candy bars not healthy as they are:
(i) colourful (ii) sweet (iii) aritificial (iv) unhealthy
(b) We should get into the habit of starting the dinner with salads because they:
(i) add colour (ii) have fiber (iii) are healthy (iv) all the three options.
(c) Nutrition experts strongly recommend that the diet must have:
(i) colours (ii) antioxidants (iii) beta-carotene (iv) all the three options.
(d) According to the nutritionists a healthy snack contsists of:
(i) Fruits (ii) Salads (iii) dry fruits (iv) juices.
(e) Colourful diet means:
(i) Balanced diet (ii) rich in antioxidants (iii) rich in vitamins and minerals
(iv) rich in immuno boosters.
(f) Food that give maximum benefits are:
(i) Green vegetables (ii) Orange fruits (iii) both fruits and vegetables
(iv) deep colored fruits and vegetables.
(g) Food that best gives protection against cancer is:
(i) Greens (ii) Orange (iii) Raddish (iv) Beetroot.
(h) Having 100% fruit juice in the morning is recommended because:
(i) fruits have nutrients (ii) breakfast should be light (iii) of the long gap between the meals (iv) fruits have sucrose.

Answer 1

(a) (iv) unhealthy

(b) (iv) all the three options

(c) (i) colours

(d) (iii) dry fruits

(e) (i) Balanced diet

(f) (iii) both fruits and vegetables

(g) (ii) Orange

(h) (i) fruits have nutrients