Factual Passage-1

Passage- 1 

Everyone knows that a messy home is an unhealthy home. You always rid your kitchen of trash and provide a clean environment for your family to live in; however, many people neglect their own bodies when it comes to waste management. A detox can help internal body waste removal. A detox cuts out all unnatural and unhealthy substances like caffeine and sugar. This allows your body to purge toxins that drag you down throughout the day. The body's organs can function at full capacity when you are not inundating them with chemicals. This alone boosts your metabolism and causes your body to work harder on your daily task and reduces its need to waste energy on bodily functions.

The colon is one of the most important organs in your body and its job is to help your body remove waste. Eating processed food over the years causes your colon to back up and become filled with waste. This back-up releases waste toxins and nasty bacteria into your body. With a detox you flush out your colon allowing it to catch up and work properly. Your liver is with every time you need to burn fat and clean up the body. It's like a living sponge and soaks up all the toxins. By drinking plenty of water with your detox you can remove a lot of the fatty cells in your liver.

Unfortunately we live in a society where many people are overweight and as you may already know, this can bring on chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Fortunately you can lose weight faster than ever with a detox program and here is why: When you detox, you primarily eat all organic substances that contain little to no fats or artificial sweeteners. This cuts your average calorie intake drastically. 

Questions 

1. Fatty cells in the liver can be detoxed by:
(a) Drinking water
(b) Taking caffeine
(c) Eating processed food
(d) Sleeping

2. The metabolism of the body's organs can be boosted by removing:
(a) Physical substances
(b) Organic food
(c) Artificial sweetness
(d) Chemical substance

3. The most important organ in the human body which helps in removing the waste is:
(a) Nose
(b) Mouth
(c) Colon
(d) Liver

4. The average calorie intake can be reduced by eating organic substances which must contain little amount of:
(a) Protein
(b) Fat
(c) Vitamin
(d) Oil

5. Find the word from the passage which is a synonym of the phrase: "To make something pure by removing something undesirable". Choose the correct answer from below:
(a) Inundating
(b) Trash
(c) Purge
(d) Toxin

Passage - 2 

The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle, is a continuous process that sustains life on Earth by distributing water across land, oceans, and the atmosphere. It begins with evaporation, where heat from the sun transforms liquid water from oceans, rivers, and lakes into vapor. This vapor rises into the atmosphere, cools, and condenses into clouds through a process called condensation. When conditions are right, these clouds release water back to the surface as precipitation-rain, snow, or hail-depending on temperature. Some of this water infiltrates the soil, replenishing groundwater reserves, while the rest flows into rivers and eventually returns to the oceans, completing the cycle. This natural system ensures a constant supply of freshwater, though human activities like deforestation and urbanization disrupt it.

Globally, only 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater, and much of that is locked in glaciers or underground aquifers, leaving less than 1% readily available for human use. Pollution from industrial runoff and agricultural chemicals further reduces this supply, threatening ecosystems and drinking water sources. Scientists emphasize the importance of conservation techniques, such as rainwater harvesting, to mitigate these issues. By capturing precipitation, communities can reduce reliance on strained groundwater reserves and combat water scarcity. Climate change complicates the cycle further, intensifying evaporation rates and altering precipitation patterns, which can lead to droughts in some regions and floods in others. Understanding the water cycle is crucial for addressing these challenges and ensuring sustainable water management for future generations.

Questions:

1. The process by which water vapor turns into clouds is called:
(a) Evaporation
(b) Condensation
(c) Precipitation
(d) Infiltration

2. Human activities that disrupt the water cycle include:
(a) Rainwater harvesting
(b) Deforestation
(c) Glacier formation
(d) Ocean currents

3. Freshwater available for human use is less than:
(a) 1%
(b) 2.5%
(c) 5%
(d) 10%

4. Rainwater harvesting helps reduce reliance on:
(a) Oceans
(b) Rivers
(c) Groundwater reserves
(d) Clouds

5. A word from the passage that means "to lessen or reduce" is:
(a) Sustains
(b) Mitigate
(c) Intensifying
(d) Distributing