SSC ENGLISH SEEN PASSAGE-04 | YOGA
Read the passage. Then answer the question below.Unit-2; Lesson-1(c)
Suppose your kids are demanding the latest video game, your boss wants that report done today by five, and your partner wants to know what’s for dinner tonight. Stress and anxiety are everywhere. In this situation, to keep fit as well as to give them the best you need to do something. And here comes yoga to help you.
Understanding yoga
Yoga is a kind of posture and breathing exercises. It brings together physical and mental disciplines to achieve peace of body and mind, helping you relax and manage stress and anxiety. Traditional yoga puts emphasis on behaviour, diet and meditation. But if you’re just looking for better stress management— and not an entire lifestyle change, yoga can still help.
The health benefits of yoga
The potential health benefits of yoga are numerous and may include:
Stress reduction. With its quiet, precise movements, yoga draws your focus away from your busy, chaotic day and toward calm as you move your body through poses that require balance and concentration.
Increased fitness. As you learn and refine new poses, you may enjoy improved balance, flexibility, the range of motion and strength. And this means you’re less likely to injure yourself in other physical endeavours or in your daily activities.
Management of chronic health conditions. Yoga might help with a variety of health conditions, such as cancer, depression, pain, anxiety and insomnia, by helping with sleep problems, fatigue and mood. Yoga also can help reduce heart rate and blood pressure.
Weight loss. If you’re overweight or have an eating disorder, yoga may help you make the healthy lifestyle changes necessary to gain control of your eating and drop those extra pounds.
While you shouldn’t expect yoga to cure you or offer you relief 100 per cent, it can help some health conditions when combined with standard treatment. And if you already enjoy good health, yoga can be an enjoyable supplement to your regular fitness routine.
SSC ENGLISH SEEN PASSAGE-04 | YOGA
1. Choose the correct answer from the following alternatives
A. Which of the following has the closest meaning of the word ‘practitioners’ used in line 10 of the passage?
a. Those who train
b. those who teach
b. c. those who practice ☑
d. those who purchase
B. Which of the following words describes the benefits of yoga best?
a. Stress
b. Potential
b. c. Fitness
d. Numerous ☑
C. Which of the following is closely associated with the benefits of yoga?
a. Improvement of chronic health disease ☑
b. b. Luxurious lifestyle
c. successful career
d. d. pain reduction.
D. Which of the following is not true about yoga?
a. Yoga has hardly any impact on stress and anxiety management.
b. Yoga helps your body get relaxed through quiet and precise movements. ☑
c. Chronic diseases can be controlled by practising yoga regularly
d. Yoga brings a positive change in your lifestyle and attitude.
E. Which of the following statements is true about yoga?
a. Yoga can ensure 100% cure.
b. Yoga can be used as a supplement to your fitness routine. ☑
c. Yoga cannot be practised to get cure from cancer.
d. All yoga practitioners certainly need the same kinds of practice.
F. “Traditional yoga puts emphasis on behaviour, diet and meditation.” What does the statement mean?
a. Traditional yoga does not necessarily bring in the change in behaviour, diet and meditation.
b. Behaviour, diet and meditation get special attention in traditional yoga. ☑
c. Behaviour, diet and meditation are the outcomes of traditional yoga.
d. Change in behaviour, diet and meditation can offer you 100 per cent relief from stress and anxiety.
G. What is the purpose of the author of this passage?
a. To highlight the importance of yoga in our life. ☑
b. To show the medical aspects of yoga.
c. To make us practice yoga daily for stress management.
d. To highlight the importance of yoga in stress and anxiety management.
H. Which of the following has the closest meaning of the word ‘supplement’ used in the paragraph of the text?
a. Treatment
b. medicine
b. c. additional tool ☑
d. exercise
I. “Yoga is a kind of posture and breathing exercise.” What does the underlined word mean?
a. Balanced body movement ☑
b. walking slowly
b. c. taking in oxygen calmly
d. jogging
J. What does the term eating disorder means?
a. Irregularity in food habit ☑
b. the problem in digestion
b. c. the problem in eating vegetable
d. Difficulty in excretion
SSC ENGLISH SEEN PASSAGE-04 | YOGA
2. Answer the following questions.
a. From your reading of the text, describe how yoga can help to lead a peaceful life.
Answer: Yoga helps us to lead a peaceful life by bringing together physical and mental disciplines to achieve peace of body and mind which helps us relax and manage stress and anxiety.
b. What is yoga? What are the major benefits of yoga?
Answer: Yoga is a kind of posture and breathing exercise. It has numerous health benefits. It helps reduce stress and anxiety, increase physical fitness, improve our chronic health conditions, drop extra weight and finally, bring a positive change in our lifestyle.
c. What shouldn’t we expect from yoga? What should we expect from it?
Answer: we should not expect a 100 per cent cure or relief from yoga. Rather we should expect that it will help us improve some health conditions when combined with standard treatment.
d. What does traditional yoga put emphasis on? Why?
Answer: Traditional yoga puts emphasis on behaviour, diet and meditation. The reason is that these three things play a vital role in stress management and physical fitness program.
e. What is the main object of the author of this passage? Do you agree with him? why/ why not?
Answer: The main objective of the author of this passage is to make aware of the importance of yoga in our life. Yes, I fully agree with him because yoga can certainly bring a positive change in our lifestyle. It can also help us lead a peaceful life by bringing together physical and mental disciplines to achieve peace of body and mind
f. How does yoga help us with stress reduction?
Answer: With its quiet and precise movements, yoga draws our focus from our busy and chaotic life towards calm as yoga keeps our body through poses that require balance and concentration. By this way, Yoga can help us.
g. How can yoga help us with weight loss?
Answer: Yoga makes healthy lifestyle changes necessary to gain control of our food habit which results in losing our extra pounds. This is how; yoga can help us in weight loss.
h. Do you think this passage is useful for students? Why/why not Explain it an in2/3 sentence?
Answer: Yes, I believe this passage is highly useful for the students because students go through a lot of pressure and stress every day because of continuous classes, exams and home works
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