Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. 1. 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 sunburns. You can munch on its 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. 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.
2. 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 habitant constipation, bleeding piles and chronic diarrhea.
3. The juice, used as a cosmetic, removes freckles or brown spots due to exposure to sunlight and skin smooth and delicate. A paste of papaya seeds is applied in skin disease like those caused by ringworm. The black seeds of the papaya are highly beneficial in the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver caused by malnutrition, alcoholism etc.
4.A table of its juice, combined with a pint of fresh lime juice ,should be taken once or twice daily for a month. The fresh juice of raw papaya mixed with honey cab be applied over inflamed tonsils. It dissolves the membrane and prevents infection from spreading. The nutrients in papaya have also been shown to be helpful in the prevention of colon cancer. Papaya’s fiber is able to control cancer-causing toxins in the colon and keep them away from the healthy colon cells. In addition, papaya’s folate, Vitamin-C, beta-carotene, and Vitamin-E have each been associated with a reduced risk of cancer. These nutrients provide synergistic protection for colon cells from free radical damage to their DNA. Increasing your intake of these nutrients by enjoying papaya is an especially good idea for individuals at risk of colon.
Complete the sentences.
a. One of the most important virtues of pepsin is that 1 b. Intestinal irritation can be overcome by 1 c. Throat disorder can be cured if 1 d ‘The juice can be used as a cosmetic’ means 1
e. The fact that papaya is a versatile fruit is evident from f. Papaya favours and
g. The word “deficiency” means
h. A suitable heading for the passage is