Reading Comprehension Test 47

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Question 1
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Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:

Let them buy your big eyes,
In the secret earth securely,
Your thin fingers and your fair,
Soft, indefinite-coloured hair,
All of these in some way, surely,
From the secret earth shall rise;
Not for these I sit and stare;
Broken and bereft completely:
Your young flesh that sat so neatly
On your little bones will sweetly
Blossom in the air.

A
abccbbccbbc

B
abccbacbbbc

C
abbccabccbb

D
abcabccbbcc

Solution

The rhyme scheme can be identified through the final word of each line:
Eyes(a)
Securely(b)
Fair-Hair(c)
Surely(b)
Rise(a)
Stare(c)
Completely-Neatly-Sweetly(b)
Air(c)
So, the rhyme scheme is abccbacbbbc. So, the correct answer is option B.
Question 2
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Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay! Or else my joys will die
And perish in their infancy.

A
aabbcd

B
aabcbc

C
ababab

D
abcabc

Solution

The rhyme scheme followed can be found out through the last word of each line. Here, the following words rhyme:
Rise-Eyes(a)
Heart-Part(b)
However, 'die' and 'infancy' do not rhyme. So, the rhyme scheme is aabbcd. The correct answer is A.
Question 3
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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

A
abcd abcd

B
abba cbbc

C
abab cdcd

D
abba cddc

Solution

Here, there is an alternate rhyme pattern - 'star' rhymes with 'bar', 'me' rhymes with 'sea', 'asleep' with 'deep' and 'foam' with 'home.' So, we can conclude that the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd. Option C is the correct answer.
Question 4
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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:

Promise me no promises,
So I will not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?

A
ababcdcd

B
abbacddc

C
abbacdcd

D
abcdabcd

Solution

The rhyme scheme can be identified through the final word of each line:
promises-liberties(a)
you-true(b)
uncast-past(c)
go-know(d)
So, the rhyme scheme is ababcdcd. The correct answer is option A.
Question 5
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Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:

Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.

Tie the white fillets then about your hair
And think no more of what will come to pass
Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
And chattering on the air.

A
abba cddc

B
abab cdcd

C
abba cdcd

D
aaabb ccdd

Solution

The rhyme scheme can be identified through the final word of each line:
Sward-Word(a)
Seminary-Contrary(b)
Hair-Air(c)
Pass-Grass(d)
So, the rhyme scheme followed here is abba cddc. Option A is the correct answer.
Question 6
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[passage-header]Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
[/passage-header]Cozette could have been a pretty child, but she was thin and pale and her eyes were stained with weeping. She was dressed in her thin torn cotton dress and she shivered all the time. Here and there on her body were blue marks from the beatings that her mistress had given her. Her naked legs were red and rough. When she spoke, her voice trembled. Everything about the child, her looks, her behavior, her speech, her silence, every small gesture she made, showed a terrible fear. She was so afraid that, even though she was wet through, she dared not go near the fire to warm herself, but sat shivering in a corner of the room.

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Cozette's voice trembled because _______.

A
she was feeling cold

B
she was frightened

C
there was no fire near her

D
she was wearing a thin, cotton dress

Solution

Option B is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'When she spoke, her voice trembled. Everything about the child, her looks, her behavior, her speech, her silence, every small gesture she made, showed a terrible fear.'
Options A, C, and D are incorrect because the right answer is Option B.
Question 7
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Discussions on drug addiction should also be concerned with the vast majority of people who are not addicts. Their homes and lives are insecure because our narcotics laws drive such people to crime. The drug addict is almost never dangerous when he is under the influence of drugs. What makes him dangerous is the desperate need for money to buy the next dose. Drugs are available only in an illegal black market. The costs are stupendous, and this is what drives the addict to steal, rob and even kill.

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Addicts take to criminal acts because ______.

A
drugs make them lose self-control

B
the habit of robbing and stealing is hard to break

C
they need large sums of money to buy drugs

D
law is powerless against them

Solution

Option C is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'The costs are stupendous, and this is what drives the addict to steal, rob and even kill.'
Options A, B, and D are incorrect because the right answer is Option C.
Question 8
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Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
Even in the most primitive societies, the great majority of people satisfy a large part of their material needs by exchanging goods and services. Very few people indeed can make for themselves everything they need - all their food, their clothes, their housing, their tools. Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange; increasingly each individual has concentrated on what he can do best and has produced more of the special goods or services in which he has concentrated than he can consume himself. The surplus, he has exchanged with other members of the community, acquiring, in exchange the things he needs that others have produced.

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Specialization and exchange began when men started _______.

A
big industries

B
concentrating on their work

C
producing things for individual use

D
living in communities

Solution

Option D is correct because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange;'
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Option A, Option B, and Option C are correct.
Therefore, they are wrong answers.
Question 9
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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:

Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

A
aabbcc

B
abcabc

C
ababcd

D
abcabb

Solution

In the given poem, there is a particular rhyme scheme followed. This is determined by the last word of every line.
As one can see, the rhyming takes place between the consecutive lines -
First two lines: The last words 'flame' and 'frame' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
Second two lines: The last words 'flying' and 'dying' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
Last two lines: The last words 'strife' and 'life' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
These can be denoted as aa bb cc, as the letters 'aa' refer to the consecutive rhyming words 'flame' and 'frame', 'bb' refer to 'flying' and 'dying', 'cc' refer to 'strife' and 'life'. Hence option A is correct.
Option B: 'abcabc' means that the first (flame) and fourth (dying) words rhyme, the second and fifth (frame and strife) words rhyme, the third and sixth (flying life) words rhyme.
They don't.
Similarly, options C and D do not denote the correct rhyme scheme of the given verse.
Hence options B, C and D are incorrect.
Question 10
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows: [/passage-header]I came home from vacation to find that my brother Ron had brought a dog while I was away. A big burly, choleric dog, he always acted as if he thought I wasn't one of the family. There was a slight advantage in being one of the family. For he didn't bite the family as often as he bit strangers. Mother used to send a box of candy every Christmas to the people he bit. The list finally contained forty or more names. Nobody could understand why we didn't get rid of the dog!

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Which of the following description fits the dog?

A
The dog was tiny and delicate

B
The dog was sturdy and short-tempered

C
The dog was huge and cool

D
The dog was small and sweet-tempered

Solution

The correct answer is option B.
The question here is about the description of the dog.
The line, "A big burly, choleric dog, he always... family.", the writer of the passage describes the dog as 'big burly' and 'choleric'. In other words, the dog was strong and not of a cool temper.
Therefore option B: 'The dog was sturdy and short-tempered' is the correct answer.

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Question 1

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abccbacbbbc

abbccabccbb

abcabccbbcc

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Question 2

aabbcd

aabcbc

ababab

abcabc

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Question 3

abcd abcd

abba cbbc

abab cdcd

abba cddc

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Question 4

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abbacdcd

abcdabcd

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Question 5

abba cddc

abab cdcd

abba cdcd

aaabb ccdd

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Question 6

she was feeling cold

she was frightened

there was no fire near her

she was wearing a thin, cotton dress

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Question 7

drugs make them lose self-control

the habit of robbing and stealing is hard to break

they need large sums of money to buy drugs

law is powerless against them

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Question 8

big industries

concentrating on their work

producing things for individual use

living in communities

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Question 9

aabbcc

abcabc

ababcd

abcabb

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Question 10

The dog was tiny and delicate

The dog was sturdy and short-tempered

The dog was huge and cool

The dog was small and sweet-tempered

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