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On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the following questions.

1. What is the good news stated in the recent comprehensive health report card of India?
(a) The male life expectancy has increased from 59.7 years to 70.3 years.
(b) The female life expectancy has increased from 60 years to 80.4 years.

(c) The female life expectancy has increased from 59.7 years to 70.3 years.
(d) The female life expectancy has increased from 50 years to 73 years.
2. Choose the option that best captures the central idea of the passage from the given
quotes.

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

When a country is An individual’s Life is full of When you see
healthy, it can be health contributes surprises, including defeat in life,
managed well. a lot to the health the birth and choose to rise
of its country. death at the same back instead of
time. lying down.

(a) Option (i) (b) Option (ii) (c) Option (iii) (d) Option (iv)
3. What affects a smaller number of people in terms of disease?

(a) communicable disease (b) non-communicable disease
(c) maternal disease (d) neonatal disease
4. Which of the following will be the most appropriate title for the passage, apart from
the existing one?
(a) Laughter is the Best Medicine (b) Life as We Know It

(c) The Power of Healing of Mind (d) Rise and Fall of Health of India
5. According to the given graphs, what percentage is covered by injuries in 1990?
(a) 53.6% (b) 8.5% (c) 37.9% (d) 10.7%

6. Which type of illness has registered the highest percentage in the year 2016?
(a) communicable diseases (b) non-communicable diseases
(c) injuries (d) nutritional diseases

7. As per the survey, the greater percentage rise in maternal diseases was seen in which year?
(a) 2019 (b) 2016 (c) 1990 (d) 2020
8. In the graphical representation, what does the percentage difference in communicable
disease show us in the years 1990 and 2016?
(a) There was decrease in the death rate by nearly half of the data in 1990.

(b) There was increase in the death rate by fifty percent in comparison to 1990.
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