Comprehension
Direction: You have four passages with 5-10 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question, out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Many of the serious health concerns in modern America can be linked to poor diet. People who regularly consume foods high in sodium, sugar and saturated fats not only increase their chances of obesity, but also increase their risks of developing heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and several types of cancer. Although some people, who regularly consume unhealthy foods do so knowingly, there is also a significant portion of the population that remains under-educated about proper nutrition. What is more, individuals who live in food deserts — areas in low-income neighbourhoods that lack easy access to healthy, affordable food — may not even have the opportunity to obtain nutritious food. Food deserts are located in high poverty areas, such as sparsely populated rural areas or densely populated, low-income urban centres. Food deserts most often develop when major supermarket chains either relocate out of these areas or simply refrain from building stores there. Major food retailing chains tend to limit their store locations to wealthier urban or suburban neighbourhoods. This means that those who live in highpoverty areas often also live miles away from fresh meats, dairy products and produce available at supermarkets. Furthermore, fast food restaurants are disproportio-nately concentrated in low-income areas.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
sparsely : with only small amounts/numbers of something, often spread over a large area densely : in away that contains a lot of people, things, etc.
with littel space between them refrain : to stop yourself from doing something.
- The best possible title for the passage is
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The Dangers of Fast Food
Correct Option: B
The Dangers of Fast Food
Direction: You have passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Violence has played a great part in the would’s history. It is today playing an equally important part and probably it will continue to do so for a considerable time. It is impossible to ignore the importance of violence in the past and present. To do so is to ignore life. Yet violence is undoubtedly bad and brings an unending trail of evil consequences with it. And worse even than violence are the motives of hatred, cruelty, revenge and punishment which very often accompany violence. Indeed, violence is bad, not intrinsically, but because of these motives that go with it. There can be violence without these motives there can be violence for a good object as well as for an evil object. But it is extremely difficult to separate violence from these motives, and therefore, it is desirable to avoid violence as far as possible. In avoiding it, however someone can not accept a negative attitude of submitting to bad and far greater evils. Submission to violence or the acceptance of an unjust regime based on violence is against the spirit of non-violence. The non-violent method, in order to justify itself, must be dymanic and capable of changing such a regime of social order.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
intrinsically: in real sense. regime: a method or system of organizing or managing something.
- Non-violence, according to the writer, means
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None of the above.
Correct Option: D
None of the above.
- Indeed, violence is bad, not intrinsically, but because of these motives that go with it. This suggests
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Violence is bad only when it is associated with certain motives.
Correct Option: B
Violence is bad only when it is associated with certain motives.
- Violence without these motives is possible only in
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theory
Correct Option: D
theory
- Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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Only violence can be used against violence.
Correct Option: A
Only violence can be used against violence.