Reading Comprehension Test 19

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]The human body needs six nutrients. These are proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. Since most foods cannot provide all six nutrients, we need different kinds of foods. Milk provides fat, protein, carbohydrates, some vitamins, minerals and water. Milk is a food that gives us all the six nutrients. Green salad, fruit and beans provide other vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. The nutrients work together to help our body grow. Sometimes nutrients are added to foods to make them more healthful. Breads, noodles and rice often have vitamins and minerals added.
Our body needs proteins to grow and change. Proteins also help to repair injured body parts. Meat and fish contain large amounts of proteins. Carbohydrates supply energy to the body. Starch is the main carbohydrate in some of the cereals and vegetables, such as bread, potatoes and rice. But sugar is the main carbohydrate in some fruits, such as mango, orange, and grapes. Our body also gets energy from the fat we eat. Olive and butter are rich in fat. Carbohydrates, fats and proteins that are not used right away by our body can be used later for energy.

[passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:[/passage-header] Clear air is obviously, not a priority for those living in Delhi, the fourth most polluted city in the world. Center for Science and Environment (CSE) claims that even the politicians are not much bothered about this malady.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]There was once a farmer who was always disagreeable and angry. Everybody disliked him. There was not a person in the neighbourhood who felt comfortable as he passed his gate.
After a time, Mr. Green came to live near him. He said, "Well, if he shows off on me, I'll very soon kill him!" This news spread and all sorts of things were said about it. Green seemed the last man to kill anyone for his looks, his words and actions told a loving heart which directed his life.
The ill - natured farmer began to tease Green, but Green took it all in good faith. One day Mrs. Green sent her neighbour a basket full of plums, but her husband would not let her have it. He said, "It was only done to get some of his pears in return."
One day Mr. Green's oxen stuck fast in the bog. He asked his neighbour to help him. He refused help saying that he had enough to do.
Green said, "Never mind, I'll kill him soon, see if I don't do it."
A few days later, the neighbour's oxen got stuck fast in the bog. When Green saw it he ran for his chains and oxen and set off to the bog. But the neighbour refused to take help.
Green insisted on giving help. He spoke kindly. He saved the neighbour's oxen. A strange feeling did that rough, cross man carry home that evening, never before had he felt a similar feeling. He said to his wife, "Dear wife, Mr. Green has killed me, he said he would and he has done it.

[passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:[/passage-header] Clear air is obviously, not a priority for those living in Delhi, the fourth most polluted city in the world. Center for Science and Environment (CSE) claims that even the politicians are not much bothered about this malady.

Read the following passage and answer the question given after it.

Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school she began to understand things. She couldn't take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a "Widow Empowerment Campaign". She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She  learned to organize street plays which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.
Naturally her ideas were not acceptable to the society entrenched in tradition. People pushed her out of their houses and refused to listen to what she had to say. But she went on relentlessly without faltering. Today, widows are allowed go out of their homes like others. Many, including her mother are now employed at organisations and literacy centres.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]There was once a farmer who was always disagreeable and angry. Everybody disliked him. There was not a person in the neighbourhood who felt comfortable as he passed his gate.
After a time, Mr. Green came to live near him. He said, "Well, if he shows off on me, I'll very soon kill him!" This news spread and all sorts of things were said about it. Green seemed the last man to kill anyone for his looks, his words and actions told a loving heart which directed his life.
The ill - natured farmer began to tease Green, but Green took it all in good faith. One day Mrs. Green sent her neighbour a basket full of plums, but her husband would not let her have it. He said, "It was only done to get some of his pears in return."
One day Mr. Green's oxen stuck fast in the bog. He asked his neighbour to help him. He refused help saying that he had enough to do.
Green said, "Never mind, I'll kill him soon, see if I don't do it."
A few days later, the neighbour's oxen got stuck fast in the bog. When Green saw it he ran for his chains and oxen and set off to the bog. But the neighbour refused to take help.
Green insisted on giving help. He spoke kindly. He saved the neighbour's oxen. A strange feeling did that rough, cross man carry home that evening, never before had he felt a similar feeling. He said to his wife, "Dear wife, Mr. Green has killed me, he said he would and he has done it.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]In 1948 after Gandhi's death, Vinoba Bhave, one of his closest disciples, retired to five acres of land to learn to live without money and to practise the self-sufficiency which Gandhi and believed was the solution to the poverty of rural India. Then, in 1951, after much persuasion, he agreed to travel 300 miles to attend the annual general meeting of the 'Sarvodaya Samaj' to be held in Hyderabad.
After the meeting was over, he went into the district of Telengana where there was a state of political terrorism in the countryside. Here on April 18, 1951, at the village of Pochempelli, he was offered one hundred acres for the use of Harijans by a rich landowner. Vinoba Bhave was tremendously excited by this gift. He decided to get more people to give away some of their land to the poor.
The news of the saint who caused people to give land to the landless spread through the district and his arrival was now eagerly awaited in village after village. The richer villagers began to offer him more land. Sometimes, of course, the rich men did not want to give their land. To these he said, "Treat me as one of your sons and give me my share of land." Within fifty days he had collected 12,000 acres for distributing to the landless poor of the countryside.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]There was once a farmer who was always disagreeable and angry. Everybody disliked him. There was not a person in the neighbourhood who felt comfortable as he passed his gate.
After a time, Mr. Green came to live near him. He said, "Well, if he shows off on me, I'll very soon kill him!" This news spread and all sorts of things were said about it. Green seemed the last man to kill anyone for his looks, his words and actions told a loving heart which directed his life.
The ill - natured farmer began to tease Green, but Green took it all in good faith. One day Mrs. Green sent her neighbour a basket full of plums, but her husband would not let her have it. He said, "It was only done to get some of his pears in return."
One day Mr. Green's oxen stuck fast in the bog. He asked his neighbour to help him. He refused help saying that he had enough to do.
Green said, "Never mind, I'll kill him soon, see if I don't do it."
A few days later, the neighbour's oxen got stuck fast in the bog. When Green saw it he ran for his chains and oxen and set off to the bog. But the neighbour refused to take help.
Green insisted on giving help. He spoke kindly. He saved the neighbour's oxen. A strange feeling did that rough, cross man carry home that evening, never before had he felt a similar feeling. He said to his wife, "Dear wife, Mr. Green has killed me, he said he would and he has done it.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]There was once a farmer who was always disagreeable and angry. Everybody disliked him. There was not a person in the neighbourhood who felt comfortable as he passed his gate.
After a time, Mr. Green came to live near him. He said, "Well, if he shows off on me, I'll very soon kill him!" This news spread and all sorts of things were said about it. Green seemed the last man to kill anyone for his looks, his words and actions told a loving heart which directed his life.
The ill - natured farmer began to tease Green, but Green took it all in good faith. One day Mrs. Green sent her neighbour a basket full of plums, but her husband would not let her have it. He said, "It was only done to get some of his pears in return."
One day Mr. Green's oxen stuck fast in the bog. He asked his neighbour to help him. He refused help saying that he had enough to do.
Green said, "Never mind, I'll kill him soon, see if I don't do it."
A few days later, the neighbour's oxen got stuck fast in the bog. When Green saw it he ran for his chains and oxen and set off to the bog. But the neighbour refused to take help.
Green insisted on giving help. He spoke kindly. He saved the neighbour's oxen. A strange feeling did that rough, cross man carry home that evening, never before had he felt a similar feeling. He said to his wife, "Dear wife, Mr. Green has killed me, he said he would and he has done it.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question below.[/passage-header]There was once a farmer who was always disagreeable and angry. Everybody disliked him. There was not a person in the neighbourhood who felt comfortable as he passed his gate.
After a time, Mr. Green came to live near him. He said, "Well, if he shows off on me, I'll very soon kill him!" This news spread and all sorts of things were said about it. Green seemed the last man to kill anyone for his looks, his words and actions told a loving heart which directed his life.
The ill - natured farmer began to tease Green, but Green took it all in good faith. One day Mrs. Green sent her neighbour a basket full of plums, but her husband would not let her have it. He said, "It was only done to get some of his pears in return."
One day Mr. Green's oxen stuck fast in the bog. He asked his neighbour to help him. He refused help saying that he had enough to do.
Green said, "Never mind, I'll kill him soon, see if I don't do it."
A few days later, the neighbour's oxen got stuck fast in the bog. When Green saw it he ran for his chains and oxen and set off to the bog. But the neighbour refused to take help.
Green insisted on giving help. He spoke kindly. He saved the neighbour's oxen. A strange feeling did that rough, cross man carry home that evening, never before had he felt a similar feeling. He said to his wife, "Dear wife, Mr. Green has killed me, he said he would and he has done it.