Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

1. The quality of fruits and vegetables that feed most of Delhi's population is being affected by the river's pollution. It is not pesticides, but a toxic mix of industrial effluents that are contaminating the fruits and vegetables that are being grown on the river bed. This is risking the lives of those people specially who eat greens grown on this soil. The National Green Tribunal has been asking for a ban on artificial colours applied to fruits and vegetables and on the waxing of certain fruits such as apples.

2. That the government is conscious of this grave danger looming large over the city's population is evident from the fact that they recently issued an advertisement asking consumers to clean their vegetables in various solutions, to do away with the chemical residue. They have advised consumers to discard the outer layers of leafy vegetables such as lettuce and cabbage. In the case of melons, carrots and turnips, consumers are advised to rub the surface first with a dry brush or towel and then rinse it. Others advise that vegetables be kept in boiling water before being rinsed and an even more ingenuous solution to the problem is to soak the vegetables in diluted vinegar before rinsing them.


3. Another advice given is to dip the vegetables in ozonised water to help reduce pesticide residues. A more sober approach given by some is to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables to avoid excessive consumption of the same kind of pesticides.

4. The Energy and Resources Institute in its study has found that the level of toxic metals like nickel, lead, manganese, chromium, and zinc are high in many water samples. Sometimes it is as high as ten times the accepted limits and water in the vicinity of thermal plants the mercury concentration is as high as 200 times more than the required level.

5. Even the polished food grains are not free from this menace for these items, contaminated with hazardous substances are being sold in wholesale and retail markets. Farmers growing vegetables and fruits for a livelihood have thus no choice but to use the polluted water as the pollution and industrial agencies have failed in their task of controlling the flow of effluents into the river.

2.1 Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (3x4=12marks)

a) What is the type of contamination of greens taking place in Delhi?

b) How should leafy vegetables be consumed?

c) What were the findings of The Energy and Resources Institute?

d) What was the condition of farmers in such precarious condition?

2.2 Which word in the passage substitutes the meaning for the below statement.(2x4=8 marks)

a) the sewage being thrown into the water (para 1)

b) throw away or dispose of (para 2)

c) Abstemious (para 3)

d) Locale (para 4)​

Answer 1

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