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    The passage discusses the many health benefits of papaya. It states that papaya aids digestion, cures skin irritation and sunburns. It can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled, or made into a milkshake or juice. The most important virtue is an enzyme in the milky juice that can digest protein 200 times its own weight, helping the body absorb nutrients for energy and growth. This enzyme, papain, helps correct deficiencies and fights issues like dyspepsia. Ripe papaya helps with constipation, piles, and diarrhea. Papaya seeds also aid these conditions and make the skin smooth when used cosmetically or applied to skin diseases. Papaya juice can

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    The passage discusses the many health benefits of papaya. It states that papaya aids digestion, cures skin irritation and sunburns. It can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled, or made into a milkshake or juice. The most important virtue is an enzyme in the milky juice that can digest protein 200 times its own weight, helping the body absorb nutrients for energy and growth. This enzyme, papain, helps correct deficiencies and fights issues like dyspepsia. Ripe papaya helps with constipation, piles, and diarrhea. Papaya seeds also aid these conditions and make the skin smooth when used cosmetically or applied to skin diseases. Papaya juice can

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    The passage discusses the many health benefits of papaya. It states that papaya aids digestion, cures skin irritation and sunburns. It can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled, or made into a milkshake or juice. The most important virtue is an enzyme in the milky juice that can digest protein 200 times its own weight, helping the body absorb nutrients for energy and growth. This enzyme, papain, helps correct deficiencies and fights issues like dyspepsia. Ripe papaya helps with constipation, piles, and diarrhea. Papaya seeds also aid these conditions and make the skin smooth when used cosmetically or applied to skin diseases. Papaya juice can

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    The passage discusses the many health benefits of papaya. It states that papaya aids digestion, cures skin irritation and sunburns. It can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled, or made into a milkshake or juice. The most important virtue is an enzyme in the milky juice that can digest protein 200 times its own weight, helping the body absorb nutrients for energy and growth. This enzyme, papain, helps correct deficiencies and fights issues like dyspepsia. Ripe papaya helps with constipation, piles, and diarrhea. Papaya seeds also aid these conditions and make the skin smooth when used cosmetically or applied to skin diseases. Papaya juice can

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    Class 9th

    English Worksheet - 2

    Question-1: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follows:

    Papaya is the healthiest fruit with a list of properties that is long and exhaustive. Papaya favours
    digestion as well as cures skin irritation and sun burns. You can munch on it as a salad, have it
    cooked or boiled or just drink it up as milkshake or juice. The most important of these virtues is
    the protein-digesting enzyme in the milky juice or latex. The enzyme is similar to pepsin in its
    digestive action and is said to be so powerful that it can digest 200 times its own weight in
    protein. It assists the body in assimilating the maximum nutritional value from food to provide
    energy and body-building materials. Papain in raw papaya makes up for the deficiency of gastric
    juice and fights excess of unhealthy mucus in the stomach, dyspepsia and intestinal irritation.
    The ripe fruit, if eaten regularly corrects habitual constipation, bleeding piles and chronic
    diarrhea The juice of the papaya seeds also assists in the above-mentioned ailments. The
    juice, used as a cosmetic, removes freckles or brown spots due to exposure to sunlight and
    makes the skin smooth and delicate. A paste of papaya seeds is applied in skin diseases like
    those caused by ringworm. The black seeds of the papaya are highly beneficial in the treatment
    of cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcoholism, malnutrition, etc. A tablespoonful of its juice,
    combined with a hint of fresh lime juice, should be consumed once or twice daily for a month.
    The fresh juice of raw papaya mixed with honey can be applied over inflamed tonsils, for
    diphtheria and other throat disorders. It dissolves the membrane and prevents infection from
    spreading.

    Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the ones given
    below:

    (a) One of the most important virtues of pepsin is that: (i) it is found in papaya. (ii) it can digest
    large quantities of protein. (iii) it cures constipation. (iv) it can treat a damaged liver.

    (b) Intestinal irritation can be overcome by: (i) eating ripe papaya salad. (ii) drinking papaya
    juice. (iii) eating raw papaya. (iv) chewing the seeds of the fruit.

    (c) Throat disorders can be cured if: (i)one applies honey and the juice of a raw papaya on it. (ii)
    one drinks the juice of a raw papaya. (iii) one eats ripe papaya mixed with honey. (iv) one drinks
    the juice of ripe papaya with honey.

    (d) ‘The juice can be used as a cosmetic’ means: (i) the juice has medicinal properties. (ii) the
    juice can be used to rectify physical defects. (iii) the juice can be used to treat internal diseases.
    (iv) the juice can be used to make the skin look more attractive
    (e) The fact that papaya is a versatile fruit is evident from: (i) the fact that it can be drunk as a
    milkshake. (ii) the fact that it can be eaten as a salad, cooked, boiled or just drunk. (iii) the fact
    that its seeds can be applied on the skin. (iv) the fact that it can be eaten, drunk and also used
    externally.

    Question-2 Using ideas from the unit of ‘Environment’ and your own ideas, write an article for
    your school magazine on the topic “Save the Planet Earth”.

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