Reading Comprehension Test 7

[passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water. Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grain from standing crops. Now people are trying to woo them back to nature.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]The purpose of education is to make the student an expert in his subject. This must be clearly understood, and mere muddling through lessons, lectures, books, and passing examinations are relegated to secondary importance as a means to the end, which is excellence in the field chosen. But there are so many fields, and no man can become an expert in all the fields. It is necessary to decide which fields are the important ones that a man should know well. It is clear that one's own work is the most important. This has been realized and modern civilization has accordingly provided vocational education. It is now possible to acquire high professional skill in various fields such as medicine, engineering production, commerce and so on, but with the good and bad mixed together, and no standard for guidance.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Each nation has its own peculiar character which distinguishes it from others. But the people of the world have more points in which they are all like each other than points in which they are different. One type of person that is common in every country is the one who always tries to do as little as he possibly can and to get as much in return as he can. His opposite, the man who is in the habit of doing more than is strictly necessary and is ready to accept what is offered in return, is rare everywhere. Both these types are usually unconscious of their character. The man who avoids effort is always talking about his 'rights'; he appears to think that society owes him a pleasant, easy life. The man who is always doing more than his sheer talks of 'duties' feels that the individual is in debt to society, and not society to the individual. As a result of their view, neither of these men thinks that he behaves at all strangely. 

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]English education, which was introduced in India in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, established India's cultural contact with the West. Prior to this, India had for centuries remained in a state of isolation, although in very early times she had sent out cultural missions to the other Asiatic countries. India really began to borrow from the West and assimilate new ideas on an extensive scale only after the British had taken up the direction of her educational policy. It is true that Western education at first exerted an unsettling influence on young men and led to errors in life and conduct. They hated everything Indian, aped western manners and modes of life, and forgot their glorious past. There were scholars who ignored modern Indian languages, avoided classical Indian literature, and made a fetish of speaking and writing English.

a. A patient went to a doctor.
b. He wanted to give him a present.
c. However, the doctor refused to do so.
d. He requested him to accept it.

a. A patient went to a doctor.
b. He wanted to give him a present.
c. However, the doctor refused to do so.
d. He requested him to accept it.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]English education, which was introduced in India in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, established India's cultural contact with the West. Prior to this, India had for centuries remained in a state of isolation, although in very early times she had sent out cultural missions to the other Asiatic countries. India really began to borrow from the West and assimilate new ideas on an extensive scale only after the British had taken up the direction of her educational policy. It is true that Western education at first exerted an unsettling influence on young men and led to errors in life and conduct. They hated everything Indian, aped western manners and modes of life, and forgot their glorious past. There were scholars who ignored modern Indian languages, avoided classical Indian literature, and made a fetish of speaking and writing English.

a. A patient went to a doctor.
b. He wanted to give him a present.
c. However, the doctor refused to do so.
d. He requested him to accept it.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]English education, which was introduced in India in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, established India's cultural contact with the West. Prior to this, India had for centuries remained in a state of isolation, although in very early times she had sent out cultural missions to the other Asiatic countries. India really began to borrow from the West and assimilate new ideas on an extensive scale only after the British had taken up the direction of her educational policy. It is true that Western education at first exerted an unsettling influence on young men and led to errors in life and conduct. They hated everything Indian, aped western manners and modes of life, and forgot their glorious past. There were scholars who ignored modern Indian languages, avoided classical Indian literature, and made a fetish of speaking and writing English.