Reading Comprehension Test 51

Some parts of the sentence given below 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. Choose the proper sequence from the options

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.

The proper sequence should be:

Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

He dropped off to sleep. The cigarette slipped out of his mouth and burnt a great black hole in his only shirt. The smell of the burn awoke him, and he got up, cursing under his breath, and fumbled in the dark for a needle in order to sew up the hole. Otherwise, his wife would see it in the morning and would nag away at him for a couple of hours. But he could not find a needle. He fell asleep again.

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

What is to be the limit of forgiveness? It would probably have been allowed by many of the ancients that an unforgiving temper was not to be commended. They would have said, we are not to exact a penalty for every nice offence; we are to overlook somethings; we are to be blind sometimes. But they would have said at the same time, we must be careful to keep our self-respect, and to be on a level with the world. On the whole, they would have said, it is the part of a man fully to requite to his friends their benefits and to his enemies their injuries.

Which one of the following is the correct statement? According to the writer must _____.

Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows:

While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment the sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easy-going gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings.
A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence.

Who/What does first break the silence of the station?

Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened, I looked around me, I could hear nothing, nor see anything. I went up the shore, and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot-toes, heel and every part of a foot.

Directions For Questions

[passage-header]Read the passage and choose the correct answer which follow the question.[/passage-header]The word 'request' in Indian English is generally used in the sense of 'pray' and seldom in the sense of 'ask'-the usual meaning of the term in the Queen's English. If while addressing a vice-chancellor, a student writes: I ask you to grant me leave", or "Could I ask you to grant me leave, "instead of the usual form "I request you to grant me leave", he will be considered rude, and would even invite disciplinary action. Then there is an additional factor, the status which determines the syntactical structure in which the word is going to figure. A subordinate addressing his boss in an office in India writes, "I request you to look into the case", while the boss writing to a subordinate will normally write the passive, "You are requested to look into the case". If the latter form is used by a subordinate it may mean an insult. If bureaucratic usages in other forms of English are also found to be in favor of the passive one can safely endure a generalization that "the more secure in his position (and in his inferior's esteem) the senior person is, the more he can afford to relax his style".

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