Self Studies
Self Studies
Self Studies
Self Studies
Selfstudy
Selfstudy

Reading Comprehension Test 13

Result Self Studies

Reading Comprehension Test 13
  • Score

    -

    out of -
  • Rank

    -

    out of -
TIME Taken - -
Self Studies

SHARING IS CARING

If our Website helped you a little, then kindly spread our voice using Social Networks. Spread our word to your readers, friends, teachers, students & all those close ones who deserve to know what you know now.

Self Studies Self Studies
Weekly Quiz Competition
  • Question 1
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:[/passage-header]Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the lyrics. By contrast, in musical theatre an actor's dramatic performance is primary, and the music plays a lesser role. The drama in opera is presented using the primary elements of theatre such as scenery, costumes, and acting. However, the words of the opera, or libretto, are sung rather than spoken. The singers are accompanied by a musical ensemble ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic orchestra.

    ...view full instructions

    Fill in the blank based on the given passage:
    Opera originated in ______________
    Solution
    'Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe...' The given statement tells us that the correct answer is B. Europe.
  • Question 2
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Sight is our most precious sense and many people fear blindness more than they fear any other disability. Eye, the organ of sight, is our most important organ for locating and observing the world around us. We use our eyes in almost everything we do -- reading, working, watching movies and television, playing games and countless other activities.
    The human eyeball measures only about 25mm in diameter. Yet the eye can see objects as far away as a star and as tiny as a grain of sand. The eye can quickly adjust its focus between a distant point and a near one.

    ...view full instructions

    The eyes are the most important organ of our body because ________
    Solution
    'Eye, the organ of sight, is our most important organ for locating and observing the world around us.' Therefore the correct option is: Eyes help us to see and observe things.
  • Question 3
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:[/passage-header]Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the lyrics. By contrast, in musical theatre an actor's dramatic performance is primary, and the music plays a lesser role. The drama in opera is presented using the primary elements of theatre such as scenery, costumes, and acting. However, the words of the opera, or libretto, are sung rather than spoken. The singers are accompanied by a musical ensemble ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic orchestra.

    ...view full instructions

    Fill in the blank based on the given passage:
    The drama in opera is presented by using the primary elements of theatre like ________________.
    Solution
    'The drama in opera is presented using the primary elements of theatre such as scenery, costumes, and acting'. So, the quoted lines from the passage suggest that the correct answer is: costumes and acting.
  • Question 4
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    I know what your e-mail in-box looks like, and it isnt pretty: a babble of come-ons and lies from hucksters and con artists. To find your real e-mail, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely 5 as unsolicited bulk e-mail and colloquially as spam. In a perverse tribute to the power of the online revolution, we are all suddenly getting the same mail: easy weight loss, get-rich-quick schemes, etc. The crush of these messages is now numbered in billions per day. Its becoming 10 a major systems and engineering and network problem, says one e-mail expert. Spammers are gaining control of the Internet.

    ...view full instructions

    The primary purpose of Passage 1 is to.
    Solution
    The passage talks about spam and junk mail in our mail inbox and one has to go through it all to find out  real and important mails. This spam mails and the manner they flood our mails in is concerning. This is what the passage highlights. Thus E is the best answer.
  • Question 5
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    Read the below passage carefully and answer the questions:
    Giving children computers in grade school is a waste of money and teachers time. These children are too young to learn how to use computers effectively and need to spend time on learning the basics, like arithmetic and reading. After all, a baby has to crawl before she can walk.

    ...view full instructions

    Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the speaker's argument?
    Solution
    This evidence would back up the speaker's contention that young students learn the basics before learning computers. Choices a and d, which are both about cost, would have not effect on the argument. Choices b and c are too vogue.
  • Question 6
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    Choose the statement that is best supported by the information given in the question passage.

    ...view full instructions

    Human technology developed from the first stone tools about two and a half million years ago. At the beginning, the rate of development was slow. Hundreds of thousands of years passed without much change. Today, new technologies are reported daily on television and in newspapers.
    This paragraph best supports the statement that
    Solution
    The last sentence states that new technologies are reported daily, and this implies that new technologies are being constantly developed. There is no support for choice a. With regard to choice b, stone tools were first used two and a half million years ago, but they were not necessarily in use all that time. Choice c is clearly wrong since the paragraph states when stone tools first came into use. Although some may agree that choice e is true, the author of the paragraph does not give support for this opinion.
  • Question 7
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows.[/passage-header]     Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due to simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
    [passage-footer]Passage adapted from: Politics And The English Language, George Orwell[/passage-footer]

    ...view full instructions

    The example of the man who takes to drink is used to illustrate which of the following ideas in the paragraph?
    Solution
    Option D, an effect becoming the cause is the correct answer in the analogy that the author has drawn. The passage carefully describes how the an idea can be driven home with the effect affecting anything so much to become the cause of its destruction. Options A,B,C and E are not supported by the text, nor are they coherent with the text, and thus, are wrong. 
  • Question 8
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

         The ground is full of seeds that cannot rise into seedlings; the seedlings rob one another of air, light and water, the strongest robber winning the day, and extinguishing his competitors. Year after year, the wild animals with which man never interferes are, on the average, neither more not less numerous than they were; and yet we know that the annual produce of every pair is from one to perhaps a million young; so that it is mathematically certain that, on the average, as many are killed by natural causes as are born every year, and those only escape which happen to be a little better fitted to resist destruction than those which die. The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.
    [passage-footer]Adapted from an essay by T.H Huxley[/passage-footer]

    ...view full instructions

    The "robber" in the first sentence is most like which of the following mentioned in the paragraph? 
    Solution
    Option E, good swimmers, is the correct answer. The author has built the analogy of the robber besting his competitors and winning the race of survival, just like the competent swimmers who can swim their way out of a shipwreck. The statements of the options A,B,C and D are not analogous to the term in question, and thus, are incorrect. 
  • Question 9
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    Choose the statement that is best supported by the information given in the question passage.

    ...view full instructions

    Mathematics allows us to expand our consciousness. Mathematics tells us about economic trends, patterns of disease, and the growth of populations. Math is good at exposing the truth, but it can also perpetuate misunderstandings and untruths. Figures have the power to mislead people.
    This paragraph best supports the statement that
    Solution
    This answer is clearly stated in the last sentence of the paragraph. Choice a can be ruled out because there is no support to show that studying math is dangerous. Words are not mentioned in the passage, which rules out choice b. Choice d is a contradiction to the information in the passage. There is no support for choice c.
  • Question 10
    1 / -0

    Directions For Questions

    But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.

    ...view full instructions

    The phrase 'Preoccupied grandmotherly air' signifies
    Solution
    Choice D is correct as it means 'to be like a grandmother'  Choice A is wrong as it means to be 'indifferent' Choice B is wrong as the  phrase does not mean being busy or pretending to be busy. Choice C is wrong as it means to be 'haughty'  So, D is correct. 
Self Studies
User
Question Analysis

  • Correct -

  • Wrong -

  • Skipped -

My Perfomance
  • Score

    -

    out of -
  • Rank

    -

    out of -
Re-Attempt Weekly Quiz Competition
Self Studies Get latest Exam Updates
& Study Material Alerts!
No, Thanks
Self Studies
Click on Allow to receive notifications
Allow Notification
Self Studies
Self Studies Self Studies
To enable notifications follow this 2 steps:
  • First Click on Secure Icon Self Studies
  • Second click on the toggle icon
Allow Notification
Get latest Exam Updates & FREE Study Material Alerts!
Self Studies ×
Open Now