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Mental health can affect daily living, relationships and physical health. Factors in people’s lives, interpersonal connections and biological factors can all contribute to mental health disruptions. Looking after mental health can preserve a person’s ability to enjoy life. Doing this involves reaching a balance between life activities, responsibilities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Conditions such as stress, depression and anxiety can all affect mental health and disrupt a person’s routine. Although mental health is in everyday use, many conditions that doctors recognize as psychological disorders have physical roots.
Mental health is about not only avoiding active conditions but also looking after ongoing wellness and happiness. Preserving and restoring mental health is crucial on an individual basis and throughout different communities and societies the world over. In the United States, the National Alliance on Mental Illnesses estimates that almost 1 in 5 adults experience mental health problems each year.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), in 2017, an estimated 11.2 million adults in the USor about 4.5 % of adults, had a severe psychological condition. Everyone has some risk of developing a mental health disorder, no matter their age, sex, income or ethnicity. In the US and much of the developed world, mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of disability. Social and financial circumstances, biological factors, and lifestyle choices can all shape a person’s mental well-being. A large proportion of people with a mental health disorder have more than one condition at a time. It is important to note thatgood mental health depends on a delicate balance of factors and that several elements of life and the world at large can work together to contribute to disorders.
Q. What is understood by ‘mental health disruptions’?
A. Abnormal functioning of the mind
B. Extreme illness of the mind and the body
C. Disorientation of the rain
D. Lack of coordination between the brain and other parts of the body
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Ans. A
Q. Which is not true according to the passage?
A. Social and financial circumstances, biological factors, and lifestyle choices cannot shape a person’s mental health.
B. Mental health involves reaching a balance between life activities, responsibilities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.
C. Preserving and restoring mental health is crucial on an individual basis, as well as throughout different communities and societies the world over.
D. Mental health is about not only avoiding active conditions, but also looking after ongoing wellness and happiness.
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Ans. A
Q. What is the tone of the passage?
A. Prescribing
B. Incendiary
C. Laudatory
D. Analytical
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Ans. D
Q. What do you mean by “Mental health is about not only avoiding active conditions but also looking after ongoing wellness and happiness”?
A. Mental health care is about looking after ongoing wellness and happiness on a day-to-day basis.
B. Mental health care is about treatment of active mental health disruptions as well as general mental well-being.
C. Mental health care is not about taking care of mental disruptions but bodily diseases.
D. Mental health care is about avoiding active mental disruptions only.
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Ans. B
Q. Some sentences are missing from the given text. Choose from the list (A-C) the most appropriate for each gap (1-2) in the text. There is one extra sentence/part that you do not need to use.
Krupabai Satthianadhan was India’s pioneering writer in English. 1 She also authored a novel Saguna–A story of Native Christian life. 2 Krupabai then went on to write another novel Kamala–A story of Hindu Life before her untimely death at the age of 31. This was published posthumously.
A. A native of the Bombay Presidency, she wrote articles for periodicals under the by-line An Indian Lady.
B. Queen Victoria is believed to have read this novel and been impressed.
C. Krupbai received a scholarship to study medicine in the Madras Medical College.
A. (1)-A, (2)-B
B. (1)-A, (2)-C
C. (1)-C, (2)-A
D. (1)-B, (2)-C
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Ans. A
Q. Which of the following sentences uses formal language?
A. Numerous research methods were considered for the study.
B. It was raining cats and dogs.
C. She uses loads of examples in the class.
D. The improvements can’t be introduced due to funding restrictions.
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Ans. A