Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:…
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world, with Madhya Pradesh being the worst-affected state. About 47% of children under five in the country, totalling 57 million, are underweight. Even sub-Saharan Africa is better off, with 33% of children malnourished. These shocking figures have been mentioned in UNICEF's 'Progress for Children - A Report Card on Nutrition', released globally.
The other badly affected states in India are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Bihar and Maharashtra. Over 50% of children in some of these states are malnourished. However, some Indian states have better report cards. Malnourishment among children is significantly low in Goa, Kerala, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu. According to Dr Werner Schultink, UNICEF India's chief of Child Development and Nutrition Programme, the causes for this malnutrition are many: bad quality feeding, high population density, high rate of infectious diseases, high rate of illiteracy among women, gender inequality, low rate of immunisation and high rate of birth of underweight babies.
The above report was published by __________.
- A.
POC
- B.
WHO
- C.
CDNP
- D.
UNICEF
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Correct answer: D
Concept: In a reading-comprehension question asking who published, said, or reported something, the correct choice is the specific proper noun the passage explicitly attaches to that action -- usually via a direct quote, a possessive phrase ('X's report'), or a clearly stated attribution -- not any other name, title, or organisation that merely appears elsewhere in the passage for an unrelated reason.
Application: The very first paragraph states: "These shocking figures have been mentioned in UNICEF's 'Progress for Children - A Report Card on Nutrition', released globally." The possessive "UNICEF's" placed directly before the report's title is the passage's explicit attribution -- UNICEF is named as the organisation whose report carries these figures.
Cross-check: Cross-check against the other names in the passage:
WHO -- a genuine international health body, but it is never named anywhere in the passage; nothing in the text links WHO to this report.
CDNP -- short for 'Child Development and Nutrition Programme', the title of the role held by Dr Werner Schultink, the individual quoted for his views on the causes of malnutrition; it identifies a person's job title, not a publishing body.
POC -- does not correspond to any word, phrase, or abbreviation used anywhere in the passage.
Answer: Since UNICEF is the only organisation the passage explicitly credits with releasing the report, UNICEF is the correct answer.