Reading Comprehension Test 12

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Bunny Rabbit lived in the forest. He had many friends. He was proud of his friends. One day Bunny Rabbit heard the loud barking of the wild dogs. He was very scared. He decided to ask for help. He quickly went to his friend deer. He said: "Dear friend, some wild dogs are chasing me. Can you chase them away with your sharp antlers?" Deer said: "That is right, I can. But now I am busy. Why don't you ask Bear for help?" Bunny rabbit ran to the bear. "My dear friend you are very strong, please help me. Some wild dogs are after me. Please chase them away," he requested the bear. Bear replied: "I am sorry. I am hungry and tired. I need to find some food. Please ask the monkey for help". Poor Bunny went to the monkey, elephant, goat and all his friends. Bunny felt sad that nobody was ready to help him. He understood that he has to think of a way out. He hid under a bush. He lay still until the wild dogs went their way.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Frogs are environmental assets, especially in an agricultural country like India. They consume pests that are responsible for diseases like malaria and also those that are a threat to plants. In fact, it has been found that an adult frog consumes its own weight of insects daily and that if their population goes down the insect population goes up. What all this also means is that a decline in the frog population necessitates an increase in the use of pesticides which are a serious health hazard for all living beings.

[passage-header]Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
[/passage-header]Courage is not only the basis of all virtue; it is its expression. Faith, hope, charity and all the rest don't become virtues until it takes courage to exercise them. There are roughly two types of courage. The first, an emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, is physical courage. The second, a more reasoning attitude which enables him to take coolly his career, happiness, his whole future, or his judgement of what he thinks either right or worthwhile, is moral courage.
I have known many men, who had marked physical courage, but lacked moral courage. Some of them were in high places, but they failed to be great in themselves because they lacked moral courage. On the other hand, I have seen men who undoubtedly possessed moral courage but were very cautious about taking physical risks. But I have never met a man with moral courage who couldn't, when it was really necessary, face a situation boldly.

Humming birds are amazing little birds. They are the smallest of all birds and weigh less than even a penny. The Bee Humming bird, at barely more than two inches long, is the smallest bird in the world.
Unlike most birds, humming birds have sparkling feathers that glitter and shine in the sun. Humming birds are often a dazzling combination of greens and reds or greens and blues. Others are violet, orange, golden, silver or other combinations only mother nature could dream of. All humming birds have long bills to insert into flowers. Some humming birds have special bills to fit in specific flowers. Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Humans, unlike many other animals, are omnivorous. We require both vegetable matter and meat to be fully healthy, although some humans manage to survive reasonably well while consuming no animal products at all, finding their protein in nuts and seeds. To carry out its main functions, the human body requires different chemicals and substances. All of the nutrition we take in can be put in seven categories. These are carbohydrates, proteins, fiber, minerals, vitamins, fats and water. Carbohydrates provide the body with energy. Proteins allow the body to repair itself and grow. Fiber helps the digestive system. Minerals and vitamins are required for many reasons. Deficiencies in minerals and vitamins can lead to illness. Vitamins are essential for normal growth and development.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]   Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For 81128expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is an affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural 81477abilities are like natural 69817plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they are bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men 76215admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]   Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For 81128expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is an affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural 81477abilities are like natural 69817plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they are bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men 76215admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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[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.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Bunny Rabbit lived in the forest. He had many friends. He was proud of his friends. One day Bunny Rabbit heard the loud barking of the wild dogs. He was very scared. He decided to ask for help. He quickly went to his friend deer. He said: "Dear friend, some wild dogs are chasing me. Can you chase them away with your sharp antlers?" Deer said: "That is right, I can. But now I am busy. Why don't you ask Bear for help?" Bunny rabbit ran to the bear. "My dear friend you are very strong, please help me. Some wild dogs are after me. Please chase them away," he requested the bear. Bear replied: "I am sorry. I am hungry and tired. I need to find some food. Please ask the monkey for help". Poor Bunny went to the monkey, elephant, goat and all his friends. Bunny felt sad that nobody was ready to help him. He understood that he has to think of a way out. He hid under a bush. He lay still until the wild dogs went their way.