The first set of data from the National Family Health Survey-4 for 13 States and two Union Territories should be seen as a report card on how ____(1)____ India has used its newly created wealth to ___(2)__ a dismal record of nutritional deprivation, ill-health and lost potential ___(3)__ its citizens, particularly women and children. Given the ___(4)___ growth in real per capita GDP since the 1980s, and the progress made ____(5)____ Independence in overcoming severe undernourishment, enlightened policy approaches could have brought about a giant leap from 1992-93, when the first NFHS was conducted, ensuring that no child or woman was left behind in the quest for health for all. _____(6)_____, the Indian state has not viewed the situation — even at the height of a prosperous phase of economic ____(7)_____ a decade ago — of 39 per cent of children under the age of five remaining underweight as constituting a national _____(8)_____. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that this failure to assume responsibility for child nutrition has left 34 per cent of children in that age group underweight today. There is also a lot of _____(9)_____ to show that the deprived sections of India’s children have low weight even at birth due to the general _____(10)______ of women’s nutrition and well- being.

1.
a) respectively
b) fastly
c) effectively
d) genuinely

2.
a) alter
b) maintain
c) upgrade
d) avoid

3.
a) among
b) between
c) within
d) from

4.
a) agitated
b) unstable
c) steady
d) exponential

5.
a) starting
b) from
c) when
d) since

6.
a) Evidently
b) Unfortunately
c) Gently
d) Mentally

7.
a) nondevelopment
b) devolution
c) growth
d) degradation

8.
a) crisis
b) evolution
c) improvement
d) depression

9.
a) disproof
b) evidence
c) prove
d) authencticate

10.
a) carefulness
b) attend
c) keep track
d) neglect