Question

Q1. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow-


Food can maintain or save a life. It can destroy life as well. Proper food serves the purpose of

medicine. Improper food works as poison and causes diseases. We may take pride in calling

ourselves civilized, but we float all the norms about the quality or quantity of food. We mostly

eat processed foods. We have drifted away from Mother Nature. Thus the incidence of diabetes

has increased very much. According to a survey, diabetes was rare in the natives of Canada a

few years ago.With the advent of processed and junk foods the incidence of diabetes had shot

up within a very short time.By offering ice-creams,chocolates and cakes too often to our

children and by attending panics every other day, we, infact,invite obesity and diabetes.


Questions-


a. What is the effect of improper food?

(i) causes diseases (ii) make us healthy (iii) stimulate taste buds


b. “We float all the norms about the quality and quantity of food.” What does this

expression mean ?

(i) we take care (ii) we ignore (iii) we are aware of


c. Which food we mostly eat?

(i) healthy food (ii) home made food (iii) processed food


d. What causes obesity and diabetes?

(i) ice-creams (ii) chocolates (iii) both​

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

a. i) causes diseases

b. iii) we are aware of

c. iii) processed food

d. iii) both