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Q1-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
It is sobering to look back and recall that three decades ago tens of thousands of children in this country, many of them infants, were being crippled, even killed, by polio each year. The fight to vaccinate and protect our little ones from this dreadful condition has been long and hard; mistakes have been made, and lessons learnt. No Indian child was recorded as having fallen victim to the disease in the past year. Surveillance laboratories are carefully testing stool samples from children as well as sewage, making sure that naturally occurring wild forms of the polio-causing virus are not circulating. Once that has been ascertained, India will be taken off the list of endemic countries. Currently, there are four countries in the list collectively known by the acronym PAIN (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Nigeria). As the other 10 countries in the World Health Organization’s South-East Asian Region have already broken transmission, the process of certifying the whole region as free of indigenous, wild viruses two years’ hence can begin. The Americas, Europe, and Western Pacific regions have already been certified as such.
India cannot lower its guard in the matter of immunizing its children against polio for a considerable time to come. Even if the wild virus is no longer circulating in India, there is always the risk of an imported strain sneaking in. Wild polio transmission persists in six countries; every one of them except Angola had more cases in 2011 than in 2010. That includes Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year, another nine countries, including China, were fighting outbreaks caused by imported viruses. At this stage, it is not clear when the wild virus will be vanquished globally. Nor are wild viruses the only problem. The oral vaccines, which have been successfully deployed to battle polio in India and other developing countries, are based on live but weakened forms of the virus. From time to time, those vaccine strains revert to virulence, becoming potentially as dangerous as their wild counterparts. The endgame in polio will therefore need a carefully planned strategy to discontinue the oral vaccine without giving room for the disease to come roaring back. Such a strategy could well involve introducing the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which uses killed viruses and is injected. The government must now seriously address these endgame issues. The sort of short-sightedness that led it to shut down a public sector IPV plant being established with French technical assistance in Gurgram in the early 1990s is impermissible. The goal of freeing ourselves from all polio viruses can be achieved only by resolutely following a clear, well-considered strategy.
Q1 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
INDIGENOUS
01. Native
02. Original
03. Uncontrolled
04. Alien
05. Acquired
Q2 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
VANQUISHED
01. Triumph
02. Thrive
03. Advance
04. Accomplished
05. Suppressed
Q3 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
PERSISTS
01. Remaining
02. Resolute
03. Prevails
04. Enforce
05. Responds
Q4 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
FREEING
01. Limiting
02. Releasing
03. Independent
04. Tackling
05. Dwindling
Q5 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
ASCERTAINED
01. Identify
02. Investigated
03. Learnt
04. Established
05. Compare
Q6 Which of the following has/ have been certified ‘free of polio virus’?
(i) America (ii) India (iii) Europe (iv) Western Pacific Regions
01. (ii) only
02. (i) and (iii) only
03. (i) , (ii) and (iv) only
04. (i), (iii) and (iv) only
05. All of the above
Q7 Which of the following is TRUE in context of the passage?
01. Oral vaccines are based on dead virus.
02. Wild polio transmission persists in five countries.
03. PAIN is an acronym used for Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and New Zealand.
04. It can be said with surety when the polio virus will get eradicated globally.
05. Angola had more cases in 2010 than in 2011
Q8 Why are the Surveillance laboratories testing stool samples and sewage?
01. To ensure that there is hygiene in the surroundings.
02. To ensure that polio virus is not circulating.
03. To ensure that oral vaccines are effective.
04. To ensure that people remain cheerful
05. To prove that governments are not performing duties well.
Q9 Which of the following solution has the author suggested to fight with Polio?
01. An effective law
02. A carefully planned strategy
03. Financial aid
04. All round development of the children
05. None of these
Q10 IPV is-
01. International Organization
02. A foreign policy
03. Name of a weapon
04. Committee to work against Polio
05. None of these
Answers-
Q.1 (1)
Q.2 (5)
Q.3 (3)
Q.4 (1)
Q.5 (4)
Q.6 (4)
Q.7 (5)
Q.8 (2)
Q.9 (2)
Q.10 (5)
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