Reading Comprehension Test-4

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.

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.

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.

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 following passage and answer the questions by choosing the correct/most appropriate option.

In 1969, Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, a duo who combined brain and brawn to fight the injustice in society, was unleashed onto comic land by Pran, first as a cartoon strip produced by Mayapuri Group's magazine, LotPot . in his first comic, Chacha Chaudhary and the Pocket Thief (1971), the unlikely hero was depicted as an elderly rural man. Chacha Chaudhary was later adopted by Diamond Comics and released as a comic book in 1981, a change of ownership that also led to him being transformed into a respectable urban man whose role was to teach family, cultural and national values to the younger generation. His movement from the village to the town paralleled urbanising trend in India along with increasing migration from rural sectors.

Accordingly, Chacha Chaudhary and his coterie took on the moral dilemmas and criminal dangers of urban settings from the 1980's. Although the places did not acquire a high-rise and fastpaced metropolitan ambience until the rise of superhero comics later in the decade. Chacha is a man with a snow white six inch wide moustache. He is dressed in a white shirt, black Jodhpuri waist coat and a traditional red turban. His loyal companion is Sabu, a good natured 15 foot tall power pack. The friendly giant comes from the planet, Jupiter, and was lured to stay on earth through the delicious draw of Chacha Chaudhary's wife cooking, particularly her flatbread, parantha and sweet halwa. Sabu is a hearty eater consuming up to 108 chapattis and up to 20 litres of milky lassi a day. Anytime the hulk of a man gets angry, a volcano erupts in the distance, and he would cry, 'Ha-Huba', as he performs his extraordinary feat. Chacha, by contrast solves all problems with his sharp intellect, never resorting to extreme violence or guns. At the most, physical violence consists of the irrepressible Chacha using his bamboo stick to whack an enemy, often Raaka, his powerful and scheming archenemy.

Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing the correct/most appropriate option

In 1969, Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, a duo who combined brain and brawn to fight the injustice in society, was unleashed onto comic land by Pran, first as a cartoon strip produced by Mayapuri Group's magazine, LotPot . in his first comic, Chacha Chaudhary and the Pocket Thief (1971), the unlikely hero was depicted as an elderly rural man. Chacha Chaudhary was later adopted by Diamond Comics and released as a comic book in 1981, a change of ownership that also led to him being transformed into a respectable urban man whose role was to teach family, cultural and national values to the younger generation. His movement from the village to the town paralleled urbanising trend in India along with increasing migration from rural sectors.

Accordingly, Chacha Chaudhary and his coterie took on the moral dilemmas and criminal dangers of urban settings from the 1980's. Although the places did not acquire a high-rise and fastpaced metropolitan ambience until the rise of superhero comics later in the decade. Chacha is a man with a snow white six inch wide moustache. He is dressed in a white shirt, black Jodhpuri waist coat and a traditional red turban. His loyal companion is Sabu, a good natured 15 foot tall power pack. The friendly giant comes from the planet, Jupiter, and was lured to stay on earth through the delicious draw of Chacha Chaudhary's wife cooking, particularly her flatbread, parantha and sweet halwa. Sabu is a hearty eater consuming up to 108 chapattis and up to 20 litres of milky lassi a day. Anytime the hulk of a man gets angry, a volcano erupts in the distance, and he would cry, 'Ha-Huba', as he performs his extraordinary feat. Chacha, by contrast solves all problems with his sharp intellect, never resorting to extreme violence or guns. At the most, physical violence consists of the irrepressible Chacha using his bamboo stick to whack an enemy, often Raaka, his powerful and scheming archenemy.

Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing the correct/most appropriate option.

In 1969, Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, a duo who combined brain and brawn to fight the injustice in society, was unleashed onto comic land by Pran, first as a cartoon strip produced by Mayapuri Group's magazine, LotPot . in his first comic, Chacha Chaudhary and the Pocket Thief (1971), the unlikely hero was depicted as an elderly rural man. Chacha Chaudhary was later adopted by Diamond Comics and released as a comic book in 1981, a change of ownership that also led to him being transformed into a respectable urban man whose role was to teach family, cultural and national values to the younger generation. His movement from the village to the town paralleled urbanising trend in India along with increasing migration from rural sectors.

Accordingly, Chacha Chaudhary and his coterie took on the moral dilemmas and criminal dangers of urban settings from the 1980's. Although the places did not acquire a high-rise and fastpaced metropolitan ambience until the rise of superhero comics later in the decade. Chacha is a man with a snow white six inch wide moustache. He is dressed in a white shirt, black Jodhpuri waist coat and a traditional red turban. His loyal companion is Sabu, a good natured 15 foot tall power pack. The friendly giant comes from the planet, Jupiter, and was lured to stay on earth through the delicious draw of Chacha Chaudhary's wife cooking, particularly her flatbread, parantha and sweet halwa. Sabu is a hearty eater consuming up to 108 chapattis and up to 20 litres of milky lassi a day. Anytime the hulk of a man gets angry, a volcano erupts in the distance, and he would cry, 'Ha-Huba', as he performs his extraordinary feat. Chacha, by contrast solves all problems with his sharp intellect, never resorting to extreme violence or guns. At the most, physical violence consists of the irrepressible Chacha using his bamboo stick to whack an enemy, often Raaka, his powerful and scheming archenemy.