Reading Comprehension Test 65

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Question 1
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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 Their obstinate clinging to everything that is out of date and a nuisance, a selling system that defies analysis and a system of weights and measures that is intelligible only to the compiler of arithmetic books, to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.

Mere efficiency has __________________.

A
no value for them

B
little importance

C
importance

D
none of the above

Solution

In the ninth sentence, the author asks the readers to refer to some of the systems of the English like their system of weights and measures, their selling system that has nothing to do with analysis and their affiliation to everything that is outdated in order to see that they care very little about mere efficiency. Thus, mere efficiency has little importance to the English according to the author. B is the correct choice.
We reject the other options.
Question 2
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Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows

A village must have some trade; and this village has always been full of virility and power. Obscure and happy, its splendid energies had found employment in wresting a livelihood out of the earth, whence had come a certain dignity, and kindliness, and love for other men. Civilization did not relax these energies, but it had diverted them; and all the special qualities, which might have helped to heal the world, had been destroyed. The family affection, the affection for the commune, the sane pastoral virtues - all had perished. No villain had done this thing: it was the work of ladies and gentlemen who were rich and often clever.

Civilization mainly destroys:

A
the ability to create employment.

B
family affection and pastoral virtues.

C
medical facilities for the rural people.

D
agricultural trade.

Solution

The third sentence says that civilization destroyed the special qualities that helped heal the world. The fourth sentence lists the qualities which were destroyed by civilization: the family affection, pastoral virtues, and affection for the commune. Hence, B is the correct answer.
Other options are incorrect.
Question 3
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Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

Although Louis Braille died when he was only forty-three years old, he succeeded in devising a system of reading and writing for the blind which is now taught all over the world. Braille lost his sight in an accident as a child. Nevertheless, he was able to complete his education at a school for the blind in Paris and became a teacher. In his day, the few books that were available for blind people were printed in big, raised type; the letters used were those of the ordinary alphabet. The reading of such books required an immense effort. Not only that, the writing was almost impossible, for a blind person was still restricted to an alphabet which was extraordinarily difficult to reproduce on paper. Braille's idea was to use raised dots, instead of raised letters. He evolved a system, which made use of only six dots in all. By various combinations of these dots, it not only proved possible to represent each letter of the alphabet but punctuation marks, numbers and musical notation as well. Reading and writing for the blind have thus become enormously simplified. The sensitive fingers of a blind person can travel rapidly over the dots; and there is a small machine, something like a typewriter, which enables the blind to write quickly and clearly.

Louis Braille:

A
was born blind.

B
lost his sight when he was a child.

C
lost his sight accidently when he was forty-three years old.

D
was not blind, but studied at a school for the blind.

Solution

The second sentence tells us that Braille lost his sight in an accident as a child. Hence, B is the correct answer.
Other options are incorrect.
Question 4
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Read the passage given below and choose 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.

The old comfortable picture of a friendly universe' was:

A
A universe governed by religious beliefs.

B
Universe with men like Newton who were deeply religious.

C
A universe investigated by Galileo and Newton.

D
The century immediately following Newton.

Solution

The opening sentence tells us that Galileo and Newton destroyed the old comfortable picture of a friendly universe which was governed by spiritual values. This sentence proves that our answer A is correct.
Other choices are incorrect.
Question 5
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Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:
Popular illusions about birds extend further than the use of the word 'egg-shape' that would suggest that all eggs are alike. For instance, there is the popular idea that owls hoot. Actually, only very few owls hoot and these include the common brown or tawny wood owl. The white barn owl screeches; the little owl has a wailing cry, the long-. eared owl barks; and the short-eared owl snorts! Another mistaken idea is that all ducks 'quack' because the common farmyard duck is a domesticated form of the common wild duck or mallard that quacks. Actually, most wild ducks call with whistles.

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The main purpose of this passage is _____.

A
to describe the life of popular birds

B
to show our incorrect ideas of bird life

C
to show our perfect knowledge about birds

D
to describe the calls of owls and ducks

Solution

The passage says that the popular idea that all owls hoot is incorrect. It also mentions that the idea that all ducks quack is wrong. It also describes other ways they call to prove this point. Thus, B is the correct answer.
The passage describes the various ways owls and ducks call. However, it focuses mainly on highlighting the incorrect ideas we have about the ways they call. Hence, D is incorrect.
We can reject A and C.
Question 6
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Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows:

Popular illusions about birds extend further than the use of the word 'egg-shape' that would suggest that all eggs are alike. For instance, there is the popular idea that owls hoot. Actually, only very few owls hoot and these include the common brown or tawny wood owl. The white barn owl screeches; the little owl has a wailing cry, the long-eared owl barks; and the short-eared owl snorts! Another mistaken idea is that all ducks 'quack' because the common farmyard duck is a domesticated form of the common wild duck or mallard that quacks. Actually, most wild ducks call with whistles.

The common duck is not a separate species but a tamed version of the wild variety because it:

A
whistles like most wild ducks

B
grunts like the tufted duck

C
has the same call as other ducks

D
quacks like the mallard

Solution

The fifth sentence states that the common duck is a domesticated version of the wild duck (also known as the mallard) because they both quack. The common duck is a domesticated version of the wild duck and not a separate species because it quacks like the wild duck. Hence, D is correct.
We reject the other choices.
Question 7
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Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows:

Although Louis Braille died when he was only forty-three years old, he succeeded in devising a system of reading and writing for the blind which is now taught all over the world. Braille lost his sight in an accident as a child. Nevertheless, he was able to complete his education at a school for the blind in Paris and became a teacher. In his day, the few books that were available for blind people were printed in big, raised type; the letters used were those of the ordinary alphabet. The reading of such books required an immense effort. Not only that, the writing was almost impossible, for a blind person was still restricted to an alphabet which was extraordinarily difficult to reproduce on paper. Braille's idea was to use raised dots, instead of raised letters. He evolved a system, which made use of only six dots in all. By various combinations of these dots, it not only proved possible to represent each letter of the alphabet but punctuation marks, numbers and musical notation as well. Reading and writing for the blind have thus become enormously simplified. The sensitive fingers of a blind person can travel rapidly over the dots; and there is a small machine, something like a typewriter, which enables the blind to write quickly and clearly.

Before Braille's invention, the blind had difficulty in reading because:

A
there were only printed books.

B
there were no schools for the blind.

C
the few books available used the raised letters of the ordinary alphabet.

D
the books meant for the blind were heavy.

Solution

The third sentence states that in spite of being blind, Braille completed his education at a school for the blind in Paris. Hence, the given answer is wrong. The fourth sentence tells us that books for blind people in Braille's days used raised letters of the ordinary alphabet and this made reading an immense effort. Thus, the correct answer is C.
We cannot accept A and D.
Question 8
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Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

The Indian culture of our times is in the making. Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all cultures that seem today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as a pure Aryan culture in existence in India today. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the utmost freedom and we of the present generation are a result of that blend. I do not want my house to be walled in, on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I would have any young men and women with literary tastes to learn as much of English and other world-languages as they like, and then expect them to give the benefits of their learning to India and the world alike like a Bose, a Ray or Tagore. But I would not have a single Indian forget, neglect or be ashamed of his mother tongue, or feel that he or she cannot think or express the best thoughts in his or her own vernacular. Mine is not a religion of the prison house.

The author thinks that _________.

A
the Aryans were indigenous to India

B
the Aryans were unwelcome intruders

C
the question whether the Aryans were indigenous or not is not of interest

D
the culture that we have inherited is the Aryan culture

Solution

In the fifth sentence, the author makes it clear that whether the Aryans were indigenous to India doesn't interest him/her. Hence, C is correct.
We cannot accept the other choices.
Question 9
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Read the passage given below and pick the option that best fits the question that follows

A village must have some trade; and this village has always been full of virility and power. Obscure and happy, its splendid energies had found employment in wresting a livelihood out of the earth, whence had come a certain dignity, and kindliness, and love for other men. Civilization did not relax these energies, but it had diverted them; and all the special qualities, which might have helped to heal the world, had been destroyed. The family affection, the affection for the commune, the sane pastoral virtues - all had perished. No villain had done this thing: it was the work of ladies and gentlemen who were rich and often clever.

The tone used by the author in the last sentence of the passage is:

A
Lamenting

B
Sarcastic

C
Complimentary

D
Ironic

Solution

After listing the qualities that were destroyed by civilization, the author states that this destruction was not done by any villain but by the people of the society who were rich and clever. By referring to this destruction as "the work," and the people who caused this destruction as "villains," he indicates that he feels bad about the destruction of the good values that existed in the society. Hence, A is correct.
Sarcasm usually contains some type of humor and words that mean the exact opposite to make fun of someone or something. Such language wasn't found in the last sentence. So, B is incorrect.
We reject the other choices.
Question 10
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Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

The Indian culture of our times is in the making. Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all cultures that seem today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as a pure Aryan culture in existence in India today. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the utmost freedom and we of the present generation are a result of that blend. I do not want my house to be walled in, on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I would have any young men and women with literary tastes to learn as much of English and other world-languages as they like, and then expect them to give the benefits of their learning to India and the world alike like a Bose, a Ray or Tagore. But I would not have a single Indian forget, neglect or be ashamed of his mother tongue, or feel that he or she cannot think or express the best thoughts in his or her own vernacular. Mine is not a religion of the prison house.

The author wants:

A
the cultures of others to be kept out.

B
the cultures of others to replace our old culture.

C
the freedom to blend other cultures with our own.

D
the preservation of the culture of our ancestors.

Solution

In the eighth sentence, the author expresses his desire for cultures of all lands to be blown about his house as freely as possible. He means that other cultures should feel free to blend with the author's. This proves that C is the correct answer.
The rest of the choices are inconsistent with the contents of the passage.

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Question 1

no value for them

little importance

importance

none of the above

Solution

Question 2

the ability to create employment.

family affection and pastoral virtues.

medical facilities for the rural people.

agricultural trade.

Solution

Question 3

was born blind.

lost his sight when he was a child.

lost his sight accidently when he was forty-three years old.

was not blind, but studied at a school for the blind.

Solution

Question 4

A universe governed by religious beliefs.

Universe with men like Newton who were deeply religious.

A universe investigated by Galileo and Newton.

The century immediately following Newton.

Solution

Question 5

to describe the life of popular birds

to show our incorrect ideas of bird life

to show our perfect knowledge about birds

to describe the calls of owls and ducks

Solution

Question 6

whistles like most wild ducks

grunts like the tufted duck

has the same call as other ducks

quacks like the mallard

Solution

Question 7

there were only printed books.

there were no schools for the blind.

the few books available used the raised letters of the ordinary alphabet.

the books meant for the blind were heavy.

Solution

Question 8

the Aryans were indigenous to India

the Aryans were unwelcome intruders

the question whether the Aryans were indigenous or not is not of interest

the culture that we have inherited is the Aryan culture

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Question 9

Lamenting

Sarcastic

Complimentary

Ironic

Solution

Question 10

the cultures of others to be kept out.

the cultures of others to replace our old culture.

the freedom to blend other cultures with our own.

the preservation of the culture of our ancestors.

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