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13 December 2011

`Junk Food’ is food that has been produced for its pungent taste

`Junk Food’ is food that has been produced for its pungent taste rather than for its health value.Its great fun to eat and it can look very appealing, but it is not good for health value. It often contains added chemicals which make its taste soothing but are unhealthy. It usually contains a lot of  animal fat or suger. Foods like chips, burger, crips, cakes, biscuts are high in suger. When we eat a large amount of fat, our bodies turn them into fatty tissue, and a large amount of suger can damage our teeth and skin. Junk food lacks the vitamins and minerals we need.
Although people occasionally eat junk fod, the body does best when it is given a healthy balance of nutrients from freshly garden homemade foods.
 1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives:                                1  5 = 5
     a. The taste of the Junk food is soothing because of --------------.
         i)  its pungent taste                                                               ii) its food value
       iii) its rich vitamins                                                  iv) its excessive chemical
  b. Junk food does not contain--------------.
        i) suger     ii) vitamins     iii) suger and vitamins     iv) vitamins and minerals
   c. Junk food-------------.
        i) is repulsive                                                                    ii) looks fascinating
      iii) spreads foul smell                                                    iv) is disliked by people
   d. Sweets and fizzy drinks are rich in------------.
        i) carbohydrate               ii) minerals                iii) suger                iv) vitamins
   e. The food containing excessive fat-----------.
       i) enlarges our tissue                                   ii) causes harm to our teeth and skin
     iii) makes us healthy                                    iv) controlour blood circulation
 2. Write whether the statements are true or false.If false, give the correct answer:          
     a. Junk food is rich in vitamins.                                                            1  5 = 5
     b. Junk food containing added chemicals is good for health.
     c. Home made foods containing nutrients are beneficial to health.
     d. People hardly eat junk food.
     e. Junk food is popular for its health value.
 3. Fill in each gap in the following passage with a suitable word from the box.There  
     are more word than necessary :                                                                                                                                 
taste
inadequate
rich
interesting
plenty
absence
presence
prepared
bulky
causes
appealing
good
Junk food is (a)--------for its pungent taste. It is not (b)---------in food value. It is very (c)--------- to eat junk food because of its (d)-------- look. But it does little (e)-------- to body. Because of the (f)-------- of much chamical in this food . It(g)-------soothing. It usually contains (h)-------- of animal fat or suger. But our bodies became (i)------- because of our eating a large amount of fat and suger (j)------- damage to our teeth.

4. Read the passage again and write a paragraph based on the information about Junk Food.                                                                                                                  5
 5. Answer the following questions :                                                              1  5 = 5
    a. What is junk food ?
    b. What does it contain ?
    c. How does it harm teeth and skin ?
    d. What does it lack ?
    e. What does homemade food contain ?
  6. Fill in each gap with a suitable word from the text :                             
The (a)------- of junk food if (b)------. It is very (c)------- to eat thought it has an(d)------ look, it does not come to any (e)------- to the body. The added chemicals in junk food (f)------- its taste soothing. There (g)------- a lot of animal fat or sugar in it. Animals fats are (h)------- presto in foods like chips,burgers etc. Suger is very (i)------- in sweets and fizzy drinks. for (j)------- a large amount of fat our body turn into fatty tissue.
 7.
a. Junk food does not contain
i. food value.
b. Junk food contain
ii. to health.
c. People do not eat
iii. carbohydrate.
d. Junk food has less
iv. sufficient vitamins and minerals.
e. Home made foods is beneficial
v. animal fat and suger.

vi. what we need.

vii. junk food always.
 8. Read the passage again and write the main idea of the passage in not more than                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  five sentences

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