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Read the following passage and answer the next five questions by choosing the correct option:
Mara, a 24-year-old university student, seeks help for anxiety. She describes feeling paralyzed when thinking about climate change and the future; Leon, 51 and a father of three, requests treatment for panic attacks. They started last year after he and his family evacuated their home again due to wildfires; Isabel, a 16-year-old climate activist, wants support due to ruminating about the climate crisis to the extent that she can't focus on schoolwork.
The opening vignettes demonstrate that the climate change crisis is taking a toll on people's mental health. Uncertainty, unpredictability, and uncontrollability are three fundamental characteristics of climate change. Recent reviews have shown that the negative impacts of climate change are complex, manifest cognitively, emotionally, and physically and affect behaviours, relationships, and overall well- being. One such manifestation is anxiety related to the ongoing anthropogenic climate change or ecological doom, referred to as eco-anxiety. 
The condition overlaps with other mental health disorders in the form of negative, and automatic reactions to a felt threat. However, most empirical studies on eco- anxiety to date surveyed the low-risk groups with smaller and unrepresentative samples. Rigorous research is needed to more completely understand it, clarify its distinct characteristics and contextual factors, and articulate its relationship with other mental health conditions. 
Experiences of eco-anxiety often include dystopian thoughts and apocalyptic perceptions about the future, negative and sometimes intense emotions such as fear, anger, guild, grief, and despair, as well as behavioural manifestations such as insomnia and panic attacks. Causes and triggers of eco-anxiety vary from direct exposure to traumatic extreme weather events like floods, hurricanes, and wildfires to maladaptation to long-term environmental changes like land loss, water scarcity, and pollution. It can also manifest in individuals without direct experience of climate change, simply from the awareness of the potential existential threat it presents. 
Health professionals are improving ways to communicate climate concerns. Their voices are imperative for climate change communication and transformation. However, the urgency and complexity of ecological and climate crisis demand an interdisciplinary approach. Other disciplines can help advance these efforts by providing opportunities for innovative thinking and practice, such as with a sociological perspective regarding structures and connections in society; a political scientific approach to tension, conflict, and social movement; and communication strategies for patient-provider interaction, social support, community outreach, and public engagement. 
Media coverage of ecological crisis can evoke eco-anxiety. Current messages about climate change are overwhelmingly negative, both linguistically and visually, contributing to a sense of doom and gloom. Hope is central to humanity's survival and flourishing. Yet some caution that hope alone is not a panacea.

Question: 1

it can be inferred that all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:
(A) An interdisciplinary approach is required to facilitate communication regarding climate change crisis. 
(B) Linguistic and visual media provokes eco-anxiety. 
(C) Eco-anxiety, its characteristics and context have been fully understood through extensive research. 
(D) The negative impacts of climate change affect behaviour, relationships and overall well-being. 
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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  • (A) only 
  • (B) only 
  • (C) only 
  • (D) only
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct answer is option (C) : (C) only 
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Question: 2

Match the words in List I with their meanings in List II:
List IList II
A.Apocalyptic I.Related to human existence 
B.Dystopian II.Short piece of writing or acting about a person, place or event
C.Existential III.Prophesying a disaster or total destruction 
D.Vignettes IV.Relationship to an imagined society in which there is suffering and injustice 
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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  • (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
  • (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
  • (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
  • (A)-(IV), (B)-(1), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct answer is option (C) : (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
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Question: 3

"Hope is central to humanity's survival and flourishing. Yet some caution that hope alone is not a panacea". Through the underlined segment the writer is trying to:

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  • instil fear about the seriousness of the problem of Eco-anxiety
  • warn that issue of Eco-anxiety can't be taken lightly or ignored.
  • assure that hope will resolve the issue of Eco-anxiety.
  • mock the idea that hope and an optimistic approach can resolve the issue of Eco-anxiety.
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The Correct Option is B

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The Correct answer is option (B) : warn that issue of Eco-anxiety can't be taken lightly or ignored.
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Question: 4

Match List I with List II to complete the information on the basis of your reading from the passage.
List IList II
A.Manifestation of the negative impact of climate change I.Intense emotions like fear, grief, anger and lusomnia 
B.Experience of Eco-anxiety includes II.Exposure to extreme weather and maladaptation to environmental changes 
C.Triggers of Eco-anxiety III.Uncertainty, Unpredictability, uncontrollability
D.Fundamental characteristics of climate changeIV.Cognitive, emotional and physical 
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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  • (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
  • (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I) 
  • (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I) 
  • (A)-(IV), (B)-(1), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct answer is option (C) : (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I) 
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Question: 5

Eco-anxiety can also manifest in individuals without direct experience of climate change. This happens because of:

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  • their unstable mental health condition
  • they watch excessively negative media messages
  • they are fully aware of the potential existential treat it presents
  • they are poor communicators and do not share their fears with health professionals
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The Correct Option is C

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The Correct answer is option (C) : they are fully aware of the potential existential treat it presents
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