SUB-english
Marks:-80
Class:- VI CBSE
8M
Q.1. Read the passage given below and answer the following question.
1. Obesity-linked adult on-set" diabetes mellitus is for the first time being reported in children
television viewing found a clear association between the number of hours of television a child
and adolescents in the UK and many other countries. A 1986 landmark study of obesity and
watched and the risk of that child becoming obese or over-weight.
weekly television time. A more recent study found that, while eight per cent of children watching
one hour or less of television a day obese, 18 per cent of children watching four or more hours
2. In 12 to 17-years-olds, the prevalence of obesity increases by two per cent for every hour of
3. The more children watch television, the more they eat. (By comparison, even reading is a
workout, at least in studies that have been done with obese children, perhaps because it engages
their minds a bit more emphatically. Television viewing prompts children to consume more food
while they consume less energy, an ideal recipe for adiposity.
preferences. Marketing of soft, sweet and salty foods is good business, and children are
households are immersed in a miasma of one-dimensional sweet taste that reinforces juvenile
programmes is least regulated in Australia, the US and England. Sweden and Norway maintain a
5. Childhood obesity rates are highest in countries where advertising on children's television
Ireland, Belgium, Italy and Denmark pose restrictions on children's advertising and are pressing
virtual ban on advertising to children, and have consistently low levels of childhood obesity.
beyond vague recommendations to exercise and eat a balanced diet: the link between inactivity,
6. The US and other countries can afford to do no less. Public nutrition campaigns should go
junk food consumption and obesity should be made explicit. The food industry will lobby against
these efforts, of course, claiming that they constitute legislation of food choices”.
1) Choose the right option in each question from those that have been given below.
4. When children dictate family food choices,
are the most
vulnerable targets.
the other states of the European Union to do the same.
iii. no relation at all iv. some relation
iii. television viewing
iv. movies
1) Obesity and diabetes have:
i. an indirect relation
ii. a direct relation
2) Obesity has a direct relationship with:
i. a secondary life
ii. an inactive life
3) Wating television for long hours makes you:
i. obese
ii. dull
4) The more children watch television, the more:
i.
they become dullards
they leave new things
iii. lethargic
iv. inactive
iii. they get educated
iv. they eat
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