Reading Comprehension Test-3

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and then answer the question given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Read carefully.

The Indian economy is diverse and embraces a huge area including agriculture, mining, textile industry, manufacturing and an extensive area of other services. There is an enormous shift from what the economy used to be in the distant past. Indian economy is the third-largest in the world, as measured by ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP). Till today, two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture directly or indirectly. Indian economy is somewhat socialistic in its approach but presently India is competing with other capitalist countries. Colonial rule brought along with it change in the economic structure of the country. The whole process of taxation was revised, with effect on the farmers, a single currency system with fixed exchange rates, standardized weights, and measures, free trade was encouraged and a kind of capitalist structure in the economy introduced. They exported the raw materials and manpower and the finished goods were brought back to India and sold at high rates. These policies were not favourable to Indian Economy. But other developments in transport and communication like the introduction of railways, telegraphs and so on were made which affected the economy. The basic aim of British administration in India was to transform the Indian subcontinent as a consumer market for British finished goods. Technological up-gradation and development of infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure, were negligible. During the independence Indian economy had almost all the features of an underdeveloped economy. In the last fifty years of self-rule, a lot of policy initiative has been taken up by the government of India to upgrade the economic base of the country. Still, the Indian economy is gripped by poverty, population explosion, backwardness both in agriculture and industry, low-grade technological development, high unemployment and wide difference between the high and low-income levels. Now in India incidence of poverty is coexisting with sophisticated nuclear technology.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow by choosing the options out of the given ones.

Lying in bed, Swami realised with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it had been the last period on Friday; already Monday was here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the building to dust, but that school building had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred year now. At nine o'clock Swaminathan wailed, "I have a headache."

"Have you any important lessons today?" His mother asked.

"Important! Bah! That geography teacher has been teaching the same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic, which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten by the teacher."

And mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. Half an hour later, father asked him, "Have you no school today?" "Headache", Swami replied. "Dress up and go". His father said Swami knew how stubborn his father was, so he changed his tactics. 'I can't go so late to the class."

"It is your own fault. You should have asked me before deciding to stay away", father said.

By the time he was ready, father had composed a long letter to the headmaster, put it in an envelope and sealed it.

"What have you written, father?" Swaminathan asked apprehensively.

"Nothing for you, Give it to your headmaster and go to your class. You must bring acknowledgement from him in the evening."

As he approached the yellow building he felt the bulge of the letter in his pocket, he felt it like an executioner. For a moment he was angry with his father and wondered why he should not fling into the gutter the letter of a man so unreasonable and stubborn.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow by choosing the options out of the given ones.

Lying in bed, Swami realised with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it had been the last period on Friday; already Monday was here. He hoped that an earthquake would reduce the building to dust, but that school building had withstood similar prayers for over a hundred year now. At nine o'clock Swaminathan wailed, "I have a headache."

"Have you any important lessons today?" His mother asked.

"Important! Bah! That geography teacher has been teaching the same lesson for over a year now. And we have arithmetic, which means for a whole period we are going to be beaten by the teacher."

And mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home. Half an hour later, father asked him, "Have you no school today?" "Headache", Swami replied. "Dress up and go". His father said Swami knew how stubborn his father was, so he changed his tactics. 'I can't go so late to the class."

"It is your own fault. You should have asked me before deciding to stay away", father said.

By the time he was ready, father had composed a long letter to the headmaster, put it in an envelope and sealed it.

"What have you written, father?" Swaminathan asked apprehensively.

"Nothing for you, Give it to your headmaster and go to your class. You must bring acknowledgement from him in the evening."

As he approached the yellow building he felt the bulge of the letter in his pocket, he felt it like an executioner. For a moment he was angry with his father and wondered why he should not fling into the gutter the letter of a man so unreasonable and stubborn.