Reading Comprehension Test 24

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But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.

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I felt the wall of the tunnel shiver. The master alarm squealed through my earphones. Almost simultaneously, Jack yelled down to me that there was a warning light on. Fleeting but spectacular sights snapped into ans out of view, the snow, the shower of debris, the moon, looming close and big, the dazzling sunshine for once unfiltered by layers of air. The last twelve hours before re-entry were particular bone-chilling. During this period, I had to go up in to command module. Even after the fiery re-entry splashing down in $${81}^{o}$$ water in south pacific, we could still see our frosty breath inside the command module.

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Read the below passage carefully and answer the questions:
Some groups want to outlaw burning the flag. They say that people have fought and died for the flag and that citizens of the United States ought to respect that. But I say that respect cannot be leg-islated. Also, most citizens who served in the military did not fight for the flag, they fought for what the flag represents. Among the things the flag represents i freedom of speech, whicn includes, I believe, the right for a citizen to express displeasure with the government by burning the flag in protest

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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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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Fortunately, it is as yet only through fantasy that we can see what the destruction of the scholarly and scientific disciplined would mean to mankind. From history we can learn what their existence has meant; The sheer power of disciplined thought is revealed in practically all the great intellectual and technological advances which the human race has made. The ability of the man of disciplined mind to direct this power effectively upon problems for which he has not specifically trained is proved by examples without number. The real evidence for the value of liberal education lies in history and in the biographies of men who have met the valid criteria for greatness. This support overwhelmingly the claim of liberal education that it can equip a man with fundamental powers of decision and action, applicable not only to a boy-girl relationship, to tinkering hobbies, or to choose the family dentist, but to all the great and varied concerns of human life not least, those that are unforeseen.

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