Reading Comprehension Test 11

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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 weapons used by the whites in the gang fight were ______

A
as effective as the author's.

B
less effective than the author's.

C
more dangerous than the author's.

D
as harmless as the author's.

Solution

The given answer,i.e, option C is correct. As the passage suggests, the opposition's weapons did do some damage, options A, B and D are not applicable.
Question 2
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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 was hit by a broken bottle ____________________________________

A
as soon as the fight began

B
during a lull in the fight

C
after the fight was over

D
when the author's gang was withdrawing

Solution

Option D: As mentioned in the passage, "But they replied with a steady bombardment of broken bottles. We retreated. During the retreat a broken milk bottle caught me behind the ear".
The word 'retreat' means 'the act of withdrawing into safety or seclusion'.
The same is mentioned in option D.
Hence this option is correct.
Options A, B and C: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied in The passage. And, it's clearly mentioned that the author was hit while the gang was withdrawing.
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]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 is the most important factor to bring about a big change in social affairs?

A
Compelling population to accept the authority of science.

B
Spreading right kind of ideas.

C
Removing prejudices with an iron hand.

D
Spreading science with force.

Solution

Option B is the correct answer because the passage begins with the note that - 'But making any big change in social affairs will not be possible unless the right sort of ideas are widespread in the population.'
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Option A, Option C, and Option D are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Question 4
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]The very survival of mankind depends upon the survival of wildlife forests. Thus the following two measures need to be taken to stop their exploitation by the poachers and traders. First, we should provide more teeth to the legislation to deal with the offenders. Destruction of wildlife should be made a criminal offence. Secondly, we should involve the local people in the protection of wildlife in protected areas instead of displacing them or putting curbs on their means of livelihood such as collection of minor forest produce. No one knows the local flora and fauna better than these people and no one is more capable of catching the poachers as was admirably demonstrated by the Bishnois sometime back in Rajasthan.

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How best can we deal with the offenders of wildlife?

A
By issuing warnings to poachers and traders of forest produce.

B
By better vigilance of forests and wildlife.

C
By making destruction of wildlife a criminal offence.

D
By enacting a new law.

Solution

It is clearly mentioned in the passage that the first step to stop exploitation by the poachers and traders is 'to provide more teeth to the legislation to deal with the offenders.
Destruction of wildlife should be made a criminal offence.'
Therefore, Option C is the right answer.
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options A, B, and C are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Question 5
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]The very survival of mankind depends upon the survival of wildlife forests. Thus the following two measures need to be taken to stop their exploitation by the poachers and traders. First, we should provide more teeth to the legislation to deal with the offenders. Destruction of wildlife should be made a criminal offence. Secondly, we should involve the local people in the protection of wildlife in protected areas instead of displacing them or putting curbs on their means of livelihood such as collection of minor forest produce. No one knows the local flora and fauna better than these people and no one is more capable of catching the poachers as was admirably demonstrated by the Bishnois sometime back in Rajasthan.

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What is the greatest danger to the survival of mankind?

A
destruction of wildlife and forests.

B
ineffective laws to deal with poaching.

C
exploitation of forests and wildlife.

D
lack of interest in wildlife.

Solution

Option A is the right answer because the passage states that 'The very survival of mankind depends upon the survival of wildlife forests.'
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options B, C, and D are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Question 6
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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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How does science help us in social affairs?

A
by curbing violent feeling and prejudices

B
by providing comport and pleasant

C
by making life smooth pleasant

D
by dispelling ignorance and illiteracy

Solution

'People must be prepared for change; they must be willing to think about social affairs in a scientific way without violent feeling and prejudices, so that they can decide impartially what sort of change would be good.' This extract from the given passage shows that science helps us in social affairs by: dispelling ignorance and illiteracy.
Question 7
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Though it may be unessential to the imagination, travel is necessary to an understanding of men. Only with long experience and the opening of his wares on many a beach where his language is not spoken, will the merchant come to know the worth of what he carries, and what are parochial and delicate goods as justice, love, honour, courtesy, and indeed all the things we care for; that these are valid everywhere but they are variously moulded and often differently handled, and sometimes nearly unrecognizable if you meet them in a foreign land, and the art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

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When we meet other people while we travel we learn to differentiate between _____________.

A
friends and foes

B
local and universal values

C
imagination and understanding

D
communication and nationalities

Solution

Option B is the correct answer. This passage refers to the understanding of universality. Options A, C and D fail to convey that inference.
Question 8
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In the following, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.

Such was
(P) the scale of devastation
(Q) that it was described as the worst natural disaster
(R) caused by the hurricane
(S) to hit Central America this century.

The correct sequence should be:

A
P S Q R

B
P R Q S

C
P Q S R

D
P S R Q

Solution

The first statement in the sequence should be the one that best connects with first line. It should be a continuation or extension of the first line.
P is first in the sequence: P is the only phrase that links properly to the first line. Thus the statement becomes 'such was the scale of devastation'.
P is followed by R: R continues P's point. It tells us that the devastation was caused by a hurricane.
R is followed by Q: Q further adds to R's point. It says that the devastation was so extensive that the hurricane was described as the worst natural disaster.
Q is followed by S: S directly continues Q's line. It says that the hurricane was described as the worst natural disaster to hit Central America this century.
Finally, the corrected sentence is 'Such was the scale of devastation caused by the hurricane that it was described as the worst natural disaster to hit Central America this century'.
Thus, the correct sequence is P R Q S. Hence, B is the correct option.
Question 9
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[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Frogs are environmental assets, especially in an agricultural country like India. They consume pests that are responsible for diseases like malaria and also those that are a threat to plants. In fact, it has been found that an adult frog consumes its own weight of insects daily and that if their population goes down the insect population goes up. What all this also means is that a decline in the frog population necessitates an increase in the use of pesticides which are a serious health hazard for all living beings.

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How many insects does an adult frog consume daily?

A
Nothing definite is known.

B
It does not eat insect at all.

C
As many insects as it can find around.

D
Its own weight of insects.

Solution

It is clearly illustrated in the middle of the passage that - 'it has been found that an adult frog consumes its own weight of insects daily.'
Therefore, Option D is correct.
Option B is incorrect because frogs do eat insects.
Option A and Option C cannot be the right answers because there is no evidence to suggest this in the passage.
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The following six sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given. Choose the order in which the four sentences (PQRS) should appear to complete the paragraph.

S1. The landscape
P. with Nature displaying
Q. here is awesome
R. that are seldom
S. a range of delights
S6. seen together

A
P S R Q

B
Q P S R

C
R S P Q

D
Q R SP

Solution

The first statement in the sequence should be the one that best connects with S1. It should be a continuation or extension of S1.
Q is first in the sequence: Q connects best with S1. Thus, the line becomes 'The landscape here is awesome'.
Q is followed by P: P starts to support Q. It says the landscape is awesome with displaying something.
P is followed by S: S tells us what that something is. It is nature displaying a range of delights.
S is followed by R: R and S6 together add to the point made by P. They say that this range of delights are seldom seen together.
Finally, the correct sentence is 'The landscape here is awesome with Nature displaying a range of delights that are seldom seen together'.
Thus, the correct sequence is Q P S R. Hence, B is the correct option.

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Question 1

as effective as the author's.

less effective than the author's.

more dangerous than the author's.

as harmless as the author's.

Solution

Question 2

as soon as the fight began

during a lull in the fight

after the fight was over

when the author's gang was withdrawing

Solution

Question 3

Compelling population to accept the authority of science.

Spreading right kind of ideas.

Removing prejudices with an iron hand.

Spreading science with force.

Solution

Question 4

By issuing warnings to poachers and traders of forest produce.

By better vigilance of forests and wildlife.

By making destruction of wildlife a criminal offence.

By enacting a new law.

Solution

Question 5

destruction of wildlife and forests.

ineffective laws to deal with poaching.

exploitation of forests and wildlife.

lack of interest in wildlife.

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Question 6

by curbing violent feeling and prejudices

by providing comport and pleasant

by making life smooth pleasant

by dispelling ignorance and illiteracy

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Question 7

friends and foes

local and universal values

imagination and understanding

communication and nationalities

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Question 8

P S Q R

P R Q S

P Q S R

P S R Q

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Question 9

Nothing definite is known.

It does not eat insect at all.

As many insects as it can find around.

Its own weight of insects.

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Question 10

P S R Q

Q P S R

R S P Q

Q R SP

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