Answer:

Invigilator Sign.:

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Section: A [Reading]

Read the passage given below.

(10 Mark)

1. Like Bunny and me, perhaps you too are beginning to think twice before having people over

for lunch or dinner. Soaring food prices of everything from tomatoes to tapioca, from

potatoes to pumpkins, are part of the problem, but only part.

2. The real problem is diet. Many, if not most, of the people, you KNOWN, gender and age no

bar, are on some sort of diet. To further complicate matters, everyone's on a DIFFERENT die

from everyone else's. In a middle-class India, everyone is becoming health-conscious, diet

are the latest fad and GOING on a special designer diet is even more fashionable than

snapping selfies with your latest model customized iphone.

3. There's one diet, called the Atkins diet, in which people will eat only proteins (meat, fish

eggs) and veggies, but no cereals or crabs, as carbohydrate are referred to in diatese, the

special language in which dieters speak to each other.

4. Then there are people who'll eat all carbs but won't eat wheat be use wheat has gluten in it.

There are diehard non-vegetarians who become venetians on TUESDAY or during certain

phases of the moon. There are vegans who are not only PURE vegetarians but won't eat any

animal products, like cheese or Paneer, thought food cooked in ‘asli ghee' is presumably

exempt

5. There's even something called the paleo diet or caveman's diet, in which you are only

allowed to eat what our prehistoric ancestors ate before they invented agriculture. So,

and berries and