Reading Comprehension Test 26

Question 1
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Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
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One day an army group won a land battle against the enemy. The commander feared that the enemy's powerful air force might bomb his camp that night in revenge. So he ordered all lights to be put out at 7:00 PM. At midnight, the commander went round inspecting the camp. Seeing a light in a tent, he entered it. His son, an officer under him, was writing a letter. The son explained that he was writing to his mother about his brave deeds in battle. The commander told his son to add to his letter that by the time his mother received the letter he would have been shot dead for indiscipline.

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The commander went round the camp at midnight because he ________________.

A
was too tired from the day's battle to go to sleep

B
wished to check if his soldiers had obeyed his order

C
was too worried about the next day's battle

D
wished to check if enemies had entered his camp

Question 2
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[passage-header]Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
[/passage-header]Young seekers after peace know that only equal trust shown to all the people of the earth and not just to a few of them, can lead to the healing of the wounds that tear them apart and so it is essential never to humiliate the members of a nation whose leaders have committed inhuman acts. Essentially because it is also a boundless concern for so many men and women who today, as exiles or immigrants, live on foreign soil. If every home was open to somebody of foreign origin, the racial problem would be partially solved.

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For the reconciliation and unity it is essential ________.

A
to have no discrimination in the trust shown to the peoples of the earth

B
to have young seekers after peace

C
to have confidence in at least a few of the peoples

D
to punish the leaders who committed inhuman sins

Question 3
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Read the passage and answer the question given below.

There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.
"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".

The author presents the oak as the symbol of ____.

A
eternal joy and fulfilment

B
love and happiness

C
strength and endurance

D
a long meaningless life span

Question 4
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Read the passage and answer the question given below.

This country now needs a new equilibrium, a new spirit of national reconciliation that can be brought about only by moving forward to the new frontiers of true equality, fuller opportunity and greater compassion for the weaker sections of its people. Our goal is total freedom for the people that can fully reflect their urges and aspirations for a better life. We cannot remain content by merely reliving our past even under the condition of complete freedom, without a matching concept of the present and the future. We can survive only by seizing every constructive opportunity that can offer a creative alternative to the legacies of the past. It is only through such a lofty endeavour that the country can discover itself with a new sense of adventure and faith in ourselves.

In the first sentence, the writer uses one word for 'a state of balance'. Which is that word?

A
Reconciliaton

B
Equality

C
Equilibrium

D
None of the above

Question 5
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Read the passage and answer the question given below.

There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.
"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".

The oak's attitude to life is ________.

A
sceptical and disdainful

B
cheerful but superior

C
pessimistic and despondent

D
bombastic and angry

Question 6
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Read the passage and answer the question that follows:

There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.
"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".

An appropriate title for the passage would be __________.

A
The Birches

B
The Fir Trees

C
Spring and Love

D
The Oak Tree

Question 7
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Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:

There stood at the edge of the road an oak. Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the bulk of the forest. It was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they are. It was an enormous tree, double a man's span with ancient scars where branches had long ago been lopped off and bark stripped away. With huge limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, with gnarled hands and fingers, it stood, an aged monster angry and scornful, among the smiling birch trees. This oak alone refused to yield to the season's spell, spurning both spring and sunshine.
"Spring, and love, and happiness", this oak seemed to say, "Are you not weary of the same stupid, meaningless late? Always the same old delusion. There is no spring, no happiness! Look at those strangled lifeless fir trees, everlastingly the same and look at me too sticking out broken excoriated fingers, from my back and my sides, where they grew, just as they grew; here I stand, and have no faith in your hopes and illusions".

In the phrase "strangled, lifeless fir trees", "strangled" suggests an appearance that is __________.

A
fresh and evergreen

B
dwarfed and heavy

C
lean and fragile

D
scrawny and ugly

Question 8
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Read the passage and answer the question given below.

This country now needs a new equilibrium, a new spirit of national reconciliation that can be brought about only by moving forward to the new frontiers of true equality, fuller opportunity and greater compassion for the weaker sections of its people. Our goal is total freedom for the people that can fully reflect their urges and aspirations for a better life. We cannot remain content by merely reliving our past even under the condition of complete freedom, without a matching concept of the present and the future. We can survive only by seizing every constructive opportunity that can offer a creative alternative to the legacies of the past. It is only through such a lofty endeavour that the country can discover itself with a new sense of adventure and faith in ourselves.

'Spirit of national reconciliation' means ______.

A
spirit of integrating the nation

B
spirit of national adjustment

C
spirit of emotional integrating

D
none of the above

Question 9
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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Here are a couple of generalizations about England that would be accepted by almost all observers. One is that the English are not gifted artistically. They are not as musical as the Germans or Italians. Painting and sculpture have never flourished in England as they have in France. Another is that as Europeans go, the English are not intellectual. They have a horror of abstract thought, they feel no need for any philosophy or systematic 'world-view'. Nor is this because they are 'practical', as they are so fond of claiming for themselves. One has only to look at their methods of town planning and water supply. Their obstinate clinging to everything that is out of date and a nuisance, a selling system that defies analysis and a system of weights and measures that is intelligible only to the compiler of arithmetic books, to see how little they care about mere efficiency. But they have a certain power of acting without taking thought. Their word-famed hypocrisy - their double-faced attitude towards the Empire, for instance - is bound up with this. Also, in moments of supreme crisis, the whole nation can suddenly draw together and act upon a species of instinct, really a code of conduct which is understood almost by everyone, though never formulated.

'Flourished' means _______.

A
progressed

B
prospered

C
were not found in large numbers

D
none of the above

Question 10
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Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows:

It was Galileo and Newton notwithstanding that Newton himself was a deeply religious man who destroyed the old comfortable picture of a friendly universe governed by spiritual values. And this was effected, not by Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation nor by any of Galileo's brilliant investigations, but by the general picture of the world which these men and others of their time made the basis of the science, not only of their own day, but of all succeeding generations down to the present. That is why the century immediately following Newton, the eighteenth century, was notoriously an age of religious skepticism. Skepticism did not have to wait for the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists in the nineteenth century. It flooded the world immediately after the age of the rise of science.

Religious skepticism arose because:

A
Galileo and Newton were not religious, being scientists

B
Netwon discovered the law of gravitation

C
of the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists of the nineteenth century

D
of the picture of the world that became the basis of science after the seventeenth century.

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Question 1

was too tired from the day's battle to go to sleep

wished to check if his soldiers had obeyed his order

was too worried about the next day's battle

wished to check if enemies had entered his camp

Question 2

to have no discrimination in the trust shown to the peoples of the earth

to have young seekers after peace

to have confidence in at least a few of the peoples

to punish the leaders who committed inhuman sins

Question 3

eternal joy and fulfilment

love and happiness

strength and endurance

a long meaningless life span

Question 4

Reconciliaton

Equality

Equilibrium

None of the above

Question 5

sceptical and disdainful

cheerful but superior

pessimistic and despondent

bombastic and angry

Question 6

The Birches

The Fir Trees

Spring and Love

The Oak Tree

Question 7

fresh and evergreen

dwarfed and heavy

lean and fragile

scrawny and ugly

Question 8

spirit of integrating the nation

spirit of national adjustment

spirit of emotional integrating

none of the above

Question 9

progressed

prospered

were not found in large numbers

none of the above

Question 10

Galileo and Newton were not religious, being scientists

Netwon discovered the law of gravitation

of the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists of the nineteenth century

of the picture of the world that became the basis of science after the seventeenth century.

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