Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow
Most of us buy cereals from the neighbourhood grocery shops and vegetables from the local markets. But what goes on behind getting the merchandise to the grocery stores or to the market some of us may not know. For example the carrot We buy comes from some farm in a hilly area. The exotic fruits and vegetables we consume traverse long distances to reach us. Longer the distance they travel, they become proportionately costlier and they remain beyond the reach of majority of the people. Alternatively some people are taking recourse to urban farming, so that there is minimal dependence on importing edible items from distant places. Consumption of food is highly uneven around the world. The poor depend on cheap starchy diet and the rich have access to diets of their choice. The task of providing healthy food to all become more difficult, when the World is faced with explosion of population. The option is obviously to produce more food. This requires more farmland; more farmland means less forest. A huge portion of Amazonian forests have been destroyed in this process. Increased farming even takes water resources beyond their limit. But the fact is that the world produces more than enough food for all its population. lt is the market forces that create artificial scarcity. Sometimes major cereals in excess are destroyed in order to raise the market price for higher profit. Poor connectivity among regions is a hindrance to movement of food. Absence of easy transport facilities hinders movement of food from surplus to deficit areas. Therefore, a humane and scientific approach is needed to reach and distribution of food to one and all instead of taxing the earth for production of more food. Answer the questions given below on the basis of your understanding of the passage given above. Choose the best options Wherever given.
(i) Many of the exotic things that we eat come from ……………
(ii) What is the benefit of urban farming ? (A) We get fresh vegetables. (B) We can grow things of our choice. (C) It reduces the need to import food from distant places. (D) We learn to grow vegetables.
(iii) Why do only the rich have access to wholesome food ? (A) Because Wholesome food remains costly. (B) Because there is uneven distribution of food. (C) Because there is too little food for everybody. (D) Because the rich do not allow others access to wholesome food.
(iv) Why has a large portion of Amazonian rainforests been destroyed ? (v) If there is enough food for all, why can‘t everybody get his share of it .
(vi) Pick out the word From the passage which means similar to the following Word ‘ obstructs’

Answer 1

i)Many of the Exotic things that we eat come from distant places.

ii)Option C is correct.

The benefit of urban farming is to reduces the need to import food from distant places.

iii)Option B is correct.

The rich have only access to wholesome food because there is uneven distribution of food.


iv)A large portion of Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed to produce more food .To Produce more food more farmland requires & hence  more farmland means less forest.


v)If there is enough food for all why can't everybody get his share of it because the market forces create artificial scarcity to raise the market price for higher profit.Absence of easy transport facilities obstructs the movement of food to deficit areas.


vi.Obstructs mean hindrance..

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Answer 2

heya folk

(i) Many of the exotic things that we eat come from long distances

ii) option c

iii) option b

iv ) large portion of Amazon is destroyed to increase farm land

v) although there is enough food everyone can't purchase due to hindrance to movement of food

vi) hindrance in passage means obstruct