Reading Comprehension Test 38

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Pablo Picasso showed his truly exceptional talent at a very young age. His first tool was the lapis (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to draw before he could talk. He was the only son in the family and was very good looking, so he was thoroughly spoilt. He hated school and often refused to go unless his doting parents allowed him to take one of his father's pet pigeons with him. Apart from pigeons, his great love was art. When in 1891 his father, who was an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college, Pablo went with him to the college. He often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to help. One evening his father was painting a picture of their pigeons when he had to leave the room. He returned to find that Pablo had completed the picture, and it was so amazingly beautiful and life like that he gave his son his own palette and brushes and never painted again. Pablo was just 13 then.

[passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]    The Law Commission of India's recommendation that the anti-dowry law be suitably amended to dilute the provision of immediate arrest of the accused, is sensible. The suggestion comes in light of the fact that an increasing number of dowry complaints have been found to be false. Section 498 of the Indian Penal Code - dealing with physical and mental cruelty by husbands and their relatives over dowry - empowers the complainant to have the accused arrested even before a proper investigation into the case. This only incentivizes misuse of the law. Not only does this amount to gross injustice but also significant damages to the anti-dowry movement. 

Given below is a set of instructions for preparing tea. Imagine that you prepared tea for some of your friends by following these instructions. Now complete the following paragraph reporting in Passive voice how you prepared the tea. The first sentence is done for you as an example. Do the rest by choosing the best option: 
Instructions
$$(1)$$ Boil some water in a kettle. 
$$(2)$$ Clean the tea-pot and put tea leaves into it. 
$$(3)$$ Now pour the boiling water into the tea-pot.
 $$(4)$$ Cover the tea-pot with a lid immediately. 
$$(5)$$ Wait for a couple of minutes. 
$$(6)$$ Now pour it into cups. 
$$(7)$$ Add milk and sugar to your taste. 
First of all, I took a kettle and some water was boiled in it. In the meantime the tea-pot $$(2)$$ ______________  into it. Then $$(3)$$ ________   and it was covered with a lid. After waiting for a couple of minutes, the tea-water $$(6)$$ __________ and $$(7)$$ ___________ and the tea was ready to be served. 

[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.

[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. 

[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. 

Given below is a set of instructions for preparing tea. Imagine that you prepared tea for some of your friends by following these instructions. Now complete the following paragraph reporting in Passive voice how you prepared the tea. The first sentence is done for you as an example. Do the rest by choosing the best option: 
Instructions
$$(1)$$ Boil some water in a kettle. 
$$(2)$$ Clean the tea-pot and put tea leaves into it. 
$$(3)$$ Now pour the boiling water into the tea-pot.
 $$(4)$$ Cover the tea-pot with a lid immediately. 
$$(5)$$ Wait for a couple of minutes. 
$$(6)$$ Now pour it into cups. 
$$(7)$$ Add milk and sugar to your taste. 
First of all, I took a kettle and some water was boiled in it. In the meantime the tea-pot $$(2)$$ ______________  into it. Then $$(3)$$ ________   and it was covered with a lid. After waiting for a couple of minutes, the tea-water $$(6)$$ __________ and $$(7)$$ ___________ and the tea was ready to be served. 

[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.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and fill in the blank with a suitable option:[/passage-header]In the highest sense religion is an intensely individual issue, but there is a national question also. We must hold together and we cannot hold together only on the strength of police regulations. An internal regulator of conduct is absolutely necessary. Will men be good and wise without the aid of religion? As modern life has multiplied desires without the corrective sense of spiritual values, knowledge of modern science does not reduce either greed or lust. Indeed it has nothing to do with these criminal disturbances of the mind. On the contrary, it finds fresh tools for greater indulgence in all forms of greed, lust and anger. It is true that a sense of shame by itself often prevents overt misconduct. But it does not go to the root of the mischief; it does not stop undesirable mental activities. The only thing that can prevent or refrain from these evils is the religious sense.

[passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
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