Worksheet 1 Q1 Read The Passage and Answer The Questions Given Below: - (5x2 10)
Worksheet 1 Q1 Read The Passage and Answer The Questions Given Below: - (5x2 10)
Worksheet 1 Q1 Read The Passage and Answer The Questions Given Below: - (5x2 10)
Q1 Read the passage and answer the questions given below: __ (5x2=10)
1. 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 sun burns. 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 own
weight in protein. It assists the body in assimilating the maximum nutritional value from food to
provide energy and body-building materials.
2. Papain 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.
3. 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.
(a)What is the most important virtue of papaya?
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(b) How can intestinal irritation be overcome?
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(c) How can papaya cure throat disorders?
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(d) 'The juice can be used as a cosmetic'. Explain.
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(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.
Q2. Complete the following passage by filling in one word in the blanks: (4)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is (a) ___________ (an / a / the) disease in which the patient’s immune
system attacks (b) __________ (a / an / the) central nervous system. This can lead (c)
______________ (from / by / to) numerous physical and mental symptoms, as the disease affects
the transmission of electrical signals (d) ___________ (along / between/ among) the body and
the brain.
Q3. Edit the following passage _____ _ __ (4)
Incorrect Correct
Portia begs Shylock to be merciful begs begged
Just as a Duke had done. Forgiveness (a) _____ ______
Not only brings a blessings to the person (b) _____ ______
Who show it but also to the person (c) _____ ______
Who receive it. Each one of us stands (d) _____ ______
In front of God and asks about peace (e) _____ ______
But do us actually get any peace (f) _____ ______
That we wants or is it a figment (g) _____ ______
Of our imagination. Search of the answer within. (h) _____ ______
Q4. Reported Speech (5)
Sam: I could not go for my English Class today.
Mother: Have you informed your teacher?
Sam: I told Gwen to inform him.
Mother: Why did you miss it?
Sam: I want to prepare for my Science Test.
Sam told his mother that (a) ______________________________________________.