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past year questions, Verbal Ability, CUET English 2025 24 May Shift 1

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Obesity has nearly tripled globally since 1975, a first in the history of our species. It contributes to at least 200 known diseases and complications, including strokes and cancer. Now, there’s a way to solve that problem with a slash. New drugs like Ozempic can cause people to lose 5-24% of their body weight. In Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs, Johann Hari offers a nuanced explanation, as an overweight person who takes these medicines himself.

Ozempic works by making food intake infeasible beyond small quantities. A hormone called GLP-1 in the gut and brain was found to affect insulin and blood sugar, and affect feelings of satiety. Drug companies invented ‘agonists’ or copies of this hormone that can last longer in the body.

In 2005, it was approved for use by diabetics. When it turned out that these patients were also losing a lot of weight, the Danish company Novo Nordic funded tests on whether it could be used on obese people. As per the official trial results of semaglutide, those who’d been given the drug lost 15% of their body weight, making it the most successful weight-loss drug in history.

According to the passage, the root cause of medical misery is:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

Option 1 -> Diseases are mentioned as consequences that obesity contributes to, not the root cause itself.

Option 2 -> Obesity is identified as contributing to "at least 200 known diseases and complications," making it the underlying root cause.

Option 3 -> Strokes are listed as one of the complications that result from obesity, not the root cause.

Option 4 -> Cancer is mentioned as one of the complications that obesity contributes to, not the primary cause.

Hence, Option 2: obesity -> The passage clearly establishes obesity as the root cause by stating it "contributes to at least 200 known diseases and complications, including strokes and cancer." Diseases, strokes, and cancer are presented as outcomes or consequences of obesity, making obesity the underlying root cause of medical misery. -> correct

More from this set:

Question 2

Johann Hari's book is based on a/an _______ analysis.

Question 3

The word 'nuanced' means____.

Question 4

Ozempic is a wonder drug to lose weight as it______.

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