Reading Comprehension Test 10

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[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]In social life, there is an almost worldwide trend towards the weakening of community and family ties. The community life weakens under the onslaught of individualistic, self-centered living so that the focus of human relationships becomes narrower, confined largely to the nuclear family. But even within this small unit, there is an increasing crisis in the relationship of the husband and wife, in the relationship of parents and children, and so on. In the school also there is a disorientation of student-teacher relationship. Teenagers and youths are increasingly seen to be beyond control and a world unto themselves. Children are almost universally exposed to excessive sex and violence at an early age.

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What does the term 'nuclear family' stand for?

A
a family comprising father, mother and children.

B
a family where both husband and wife are working.

C
a family that is wedded to past traditions.

D
a family accustomed to urban life, its stress and strains.

Solution

Option A: As mentioned in the passage, "focus of human relationships becomes narrower, confined largely to the nuclear family. But even within this small unit, there is an increasing crisis in the relationship of the husband and wife, in the relationship of parents and children, and so on".
The nuclear family is a small family unit, that includes the parents (husband and wife) and children.
Hence option A is correct.
Options B, C and D: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied in the passage.
Hence options B, C and D are wrong.
Question 2
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and fill in the blank with a suitable option:[/passage-header]We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the back loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front. There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away on the horizon, and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us. But at last we could see whence it came, and then we knew that we were very close.

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For the narrator and his friend, the effect of the dim light was _______

A
to create confusion with regard to distance.

B
to brighten an otherwise hopeless situation.

C
to indicate divine intervention.

D
to lesson the difficulty of their mission.

Solution

Option A: As mentioned in the lines "There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night..."
the light was deceptive, and created confusion with respect to distance.
Hence option A is correct.
Options B, C and D: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied in the passage. Hence these options are wrong.
Question 3
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. So long as we are unmindful of this truth, the quality of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our teachers and students is likely to remain inadequate. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and robots. The great fault of our present age is its emphasis on efficiency at the cost of humanity.

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Fill in the blank using information in the passage:
When the author says that education is for life rather than for a livelihood, he means that __________________________.

A
education is a generally useful thing in life

B
the primary purpose of education is to train people to be proper human beings

C
education is useful for earning a living

D
education can enable one to become rich

Solution

Option B: As mentioned in the passage, "Educational is for life, not merely for a livelihood... society... needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and robots", education is for training people to become proper human beings who can 'think, feel and act generously'.
Hence option B is correct.
Options A, C and D:
The other lines are neither mentioned nor implied in the passage.
Option C is wrong because of this line "Educational is for life, not merely for a livelihood."
Hence options A, C and D are wrong.
Question 4
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. So long as we are unmindful of this truth, the quality of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our teachers and students is likely to remain inadequate. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and robots. The great fault of our present age is its emphasis on efficiency at the cost of humanity.

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The author is critical of the present educational system because it ___________

A
overemphasizes efficiency.

B
neglects social sciences.

C
is science-oriented.

D
is obsessed with computers.

Solution

Option A is correct, that is the education system overemphasizes efficiency. The options B, C and D are irrelevant in this context.
Question 5
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Education is for life, not merely for a livelihood. So long as we are unmindful of this truth, the quality of our educational curriculum, as well as that of our teachers and students is likely to remain inadequate. It is not enough for a society to have experts. It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and robots. The great fault of our present age is its emphasis on efficiency at the cost of humanity.

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Proper human beings cannot be replaced by computers and robots because _________.

A
computers and robots are nonhuman

B
computers and robots react mechanically

C
only human beings can have specialised knowledge

D
only proper human beings can think creatively and act generously

Solution

'It needs human beings who can think, feel and act generously, the kind of people who cannot be replaced by computers and robots' This extract from the given passage mentions that proper human beings cannot be replaced by computers and robots because:only proper human beings can think creatively and act generously.
Question 6
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Grandchildren at university, now how time passes! I wonder if they or anyone else would be interested in what student life was like in the '30s. Well, here goes... The academic part of a student's life doesn't change all that much through the generations, but the style of social life has changed. (For better or worse, who are we to say? ) The 'English Lit." more properly Edinburgh University English Literature society, met on Tuesday evening in the Non Soc Hall, which is round about where the student shop is now. It was called the Non Soc Hall because the meetings there were of Non-Associated societies being high and mighty affairs with a long history, such as Dialectic, Philomathic, and Diagnostic, which, in those days certainly didn't admit women.

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Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
The author of the passage feels nostalgic because ________________________.

A
he doesn't belong to the generation

B
he represents the past generation

C
he is conscious of time passing swiftly

D
things have changed since he was a student

Solution

Option C: As mentioned in the passage, "Grandchildren at university, now how time passes!", the author expresses how soon time flies, that now his grandchildren are at university.
This awareness of time passing swiftly makes him feel nostalgic.
Hence option C is correct.
Options A, B and D: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied in the passage.
Hence options A, B and D are wrong.
Question 7
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]But making any big change in social affairs will not be possible unless the right sort of ideas are widespread in the population. People must be prepared for change; they must be willing to think about social affairs in a scientific way without violent feelings and prejudices so that they can decide impartially what sort of change would be good. They must learn that science is not merely something that deals with Physics and Chemistry or with the way plants and animals live; science can also deal with human life, and the scientific spirit is just as important in human affairs as in the laboratory or the workshop.

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What do people need the most?

A
Change in social matters.

B
Knowledge of science.

C
Cultivation of scientific temper.

D
Violent feelings of scientific temper.

Solution

Option C is the correct answer, i.e., people need to cultivate scientific temper. Options A, B and D fail to convey the message of the passage.
Question 8
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Grandchildren at university, now how time passes! I wonder if they or anyone else would be interested in what student life was like in the '30s. Well, here goes... The academic part of a student's life doesn't change all that much through the generations, but the style of social life has changed. (For better or worse, who are we to say? ) The 'English Lit." more properly Edinburgh University English Literature society, met on Tuesday evening in the Non Soc Hall, which is round about where the student shop is now. It was called the Non Soc Hall because the meetings there were of Non-Associated societies being high and mighty affairs with a long history, such as Dialectic, Philomathic, and Diagnostic, which, in those days certainly didn't admit women.

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Fill in the blank using information from the passage:
The English literature Society was considered to be a Non-Associated society because ____________________________.

A
its activities were deemed to be insignificant

B
it refused to be associated with any other society

C
it was an exclusive society of the Department of English

D
it indulged in unconventional literary movements

Solution

Option D: As mentioned in the passage, "It was called the Non Soc Hall because the meetings there were of Non-Associated societies being high and mighty affairs with a long history, such as Dialectic, Philomathic, and Diagnostic", the Society indulged in unconventional literary movements, like the Dialectic, Philomathic and Diagnostic.
Hence option D is correct.
Options A, B and C: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied in the passage.
Hence options A, B and C are wrong.
Question 9
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]I climbed in to bed and rolled myself in my blankets, first extinguishing the light that burned near the door. I lay still trying to get sleep but my fear made that impossible and soon I sat up in bed peering into the darkness and occasionally glancing around the round window in the side of the ship which seemed like a plate suspended in the darkness. For an hour I must have sat like this, and then I was suddenly roused by a drought of cold air. I jumped out of bed; not having allowed for the motion of the ship, I was instantly thrown violently across the room.

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The author jumped out of bed because ___________

A
He heard a faint sound.

B
He saw someone.

C
A cold breeze blew past his face

D
He was pushed by someone

Solution

Option C is correct because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'For an hour I must have sat like this, and then I was suddenly roused by a drought of cold air.
I jumped out of bed; not having allowed for the motion of the ship, I was instantly thrown violently across the room.'
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options A, B, and D are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Question 10
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and fill in the blank with a suitable option:[/passage-header]Our home stood behind the railroad tracks. Its skimpy yard was paved with black cinders. The only touch of green we could see was far away, beyond the tracks over where the white folks lived. But cinders were fine weapons. All you had to do was crouch behind the brick pillars of a house with your hands full of the gritty ammunition and the first woolly black head you saw from behind another row of pillars was your target. It was fun. One day the gang to which I belonged, found itself engaged in a war with the white boys who lived beyond the tracks. As usual, we laid down our cinder barrage thinking this would wipe the white boys out.
But they replied with a steady bombardment of broken bottles. We retreated. During the retreat a broken milk bottle caught me behind the ear, opening a deep gash. The sight of blood pouring over my face completely demoralized our ranks. My fellow combatants left me standing paralyzed in the center of the yard and scurried for their houses. A kind neighbour saw me and rushed me to a doctor.

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The author used the cinders for __________.

A
harassing the white boys.

B
cooking his food.

C
building houses.

D
laying them on the railroad.

Solution

'But cinders were fine weapons. All you had to do was crouch behind the brick pillars of a house with your hands full of the gritty ammunition and the first woolly black head you saw from behind another row of pillars was your target. It was fun' - this quote from the extract shows that the author used cinders as a weapon for fun, for harassing the white boys. Therefore the correct option is: harassing the white boys.

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Question 1

a family comprising father, mother and children.

a family where both husband and wife are working.

a family that is wedded to past traditions.

a family accustomed to urban life, its stress and strains.

Solution

Question 2

to create confusion with regard to distance.

to brighten an otherwise hopeless situation.

to indicate divine intervention.

to lesson the difficulty of their mission.

Solution

Question 3

education is a generally useful thing in life

the primary purpose of education is to train people to be proper human beings

education is useful for earning a living

education can enable one to become rich

Solution

Question 4

overemphasizes efficiency.

neglects social sciences.

is science-oriented.

is obsessed with computers.

Solution

Question 5

computers and robots are nonhuman

computers and robots react mechanically

only human beings can have specialised knowledge

only proper human beings can think creatively and act generously

Solution

Question 6

he doesn't belong to the generation

he represents the past generation

he is conscious of time passing swiftly

things have changed since he was a student

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Question 7

Change in social matters.

Knowledge of science.

Cultivation of scientific temper.

Violent feelings of scientific temper.

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Question 8

its activities were deemed to be insignificant

it refused to be associated with any other society

it was an exclusive society of the Department of English

it indulged in unconventional literary movements

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Question 9

He heard a faint sound.

He saw someone.

A cold breeze blew past his face

He was pushed by someone

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Question 10

harassing the white boys.

cooking his food.

building houses.

laying them on the railroad.

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