Question

Papaya is the healthiest fruit with a list of properties that is long and exhaustive. Papaya
favours digestion as well as cures skin irritation and sunburns. You can munch on it as a
salad, have it cooked or boiled or just drink it up as milkshake or juice. The most important of
these virtues is the protein-digesting enzyme in the milky juice or latex. The enzyme is
similar to pepsin in its digestive action and is said to be so powerful that it can digest 200
times its weight in protein. It assists the body in assimilating the maximum nutritional
value from food to provide energy and body-building materials. Pepsin in raw papaya makes
up for the deficiency of gastric juice and fights excess of unhealthy mucus in the stomach,
dyspepsia and intestinal irritation. The ripe fruit, if eaten regularly corrects habitual
constipation, bleeding piles and chronic diarrhoea The juice of the papaya seeds also assists in
the above-mentioned ailments. The juice, used as a cosmetic, removes freckles or brown
spots due to exposure to sunlight and makes the skin smooth and delicate. A paste of papaya
seeds is applied in skin diseases like those caused by ringworm. The black seeds of the
papaya are highly beneficial in the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcoholism,
malnutrition, etc. A tablespoonful of its juice, combined with a hint of fresh lime juice,
should be consumed once or twice daily for a month. The fresh juice of raw papaya mixed
with honey can be applied over inflamed tonsils, for diphtheria and other throat disorders. It
dissolves the membrane and prevents infection from spreading
1. Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the
ones given below:
(a) One of the most important virtues of pepsin is that:
(i) it is found in papaya.
(ii) it can digest large quantities of protein.
(iii) it cures constipation.
(iv) it can treat a damaged liver.
(b) Intestinal irritation can be overcome by:
(i) eating ripe papaya salad.
(ii) drinking papaya juice.
(iii) eating raw papaya.
(iv) chewing the seeds of the fruit.
(C)‘The juice can be used as a cosmetic’ means:
(i) the juice has medicinal properties.
(ii) the juice can be used to rectify physical defects.
(iii) the juice can be used to treat internal diseases.
(iv) the juice can be used to make the skin look more attractive
(e) The fact that papaya is a versatile fruit is evident from:
(i) the fact that it can be drunk as a milkshake.
(ii) the fact that it can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled or just drunk.
(iii) the fact that its seeds can be applied on the skin.
(iv) the fact that it can be eaten, drunk and also used externally.
2. How can throat disorders be cured?
3. Find the antonyms of the following words
(i) Calm (ii) theoretical (iii) shortage (iv) reject / not absorb

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:a. 2

b.3

c. 4

e .4

1. Antonym of calm is anxiety or upset

2. antonym of theoretical is practical

3 .antonym of shortage is abundance

4. Reject opposite is accept

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