Reading Comprehension Test 68

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Reading Comprehension Test 68

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Question 1
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[passage-header]Refer the poem given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Wind:
Wind, come softly.
Don't break the shutters of the windows.
Don't scatter the papers.
Don't throw down the books on the shelf,
There, look what you did - you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again,
You're very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts- the wind god winnows and crushes them all
He won't do what you tell him.
So, come, let's build strong homes,
Let's join the doors firmly.
Practice to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.
The wind blows out weak fires.
He makes strong fires roar and flourish.
His friendship is good.
We praise him every day.
wind, come softly.

The poet urges the wind to blow ____$$[1]$$____ because when it blows ____$$[2]$$____, it breaks the shutters of the windows, _____$$[3]$$_____ the paper here and there and throws books down the shelf _____$$[4]$$_____ their pages in the process. The poet chasties the wind for bringing in ____$$[5]$$_____. The wind ____$$[6]$$_____ and destroys the weak but gives ____$$[7]$$____ to the strong. The wind will not be able to _____$$[8]$$______ us if we make our bodies _____$$[9]$$_____ and heart steadfast. Instead, like a _____$$[10]$$_____ it wiil help us to be strong and determined. We will flourish in _____$$[11]$$______.

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Read the poem carefully and fill the appropriate word for blank $$7$$.

A
stamina

B
strength

C
energy

D
boost

Solution

The line - 'He makes strong fires roar and flourish' explains to us that the wind makes strong people and things better by giving them more power to be strong. Let's find a similar word from the given options.
Option A - The poem doesn't state that the wind gives stamina to the strong things. Hence, option A is incorrect.
Option C - 'Energy' can be positive and negative as well. Also, the wind doesn't give energy, it gives strong people the strength/physical power to be more strong. Hence, option C is incorrect.
Option D - The wind can't give a boost to the strong. Hence, option D is incorrect.
Option B - Yes, the wind gives physical power or strength to the strong. Hence, option B is correct.
Question 2
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[passage-header]Refer the poem given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Wind:
Wind, come softly.
Don't break the shutters of the windows.
Don't scatter the papers.
Don't throw down the books on the shelf,
There, look what you did - you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again,
You're very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts- the wind god winnows and crushes them all
He won't do what you tell him.
So, come, let's build strong homes,
Let's join the doors firmly.
Practice to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.
The wind blows out weak fires.
He makes strong fires roar and flourish.
His friendship is good.
We praise him every day.
wind, come softly.

The poet urges the wind to blow ____$$[1]$$____ because when it blows ____$$[2]$$____, it breaks the shutters of the windows, _____$$[3]$$_____ the paper here and there and throws books down the shelf _____$$[4]$$_____ their pages in the process. The poet chasties the wind for bringing in ____$$[5]$$_____. The wind ____$$[6]$$_____ and destroys the weak but gives ____$$[7]$$____ to the strong. The wind will not be able to _____$$[8]$$______ us if we make our bodies _____$$[9]$$_____ and heart steadfast. Instead, like a _____$$[10]$$_____ it wiil help us to be strong and determined. We will flourish in _____$$[11]$$______.

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Read the poem carefully and fill the appropriate word for blank $$6$$.

A
throws

B
damages

C
crushes

D
breaks

Solution

Throughout the poem, the poet criticises the wind for crumbling things and destroying the weak. Let's find a synonym for 'crumbling'.
Option A - The wind not only throws, it also crushes, breaks and destroys everything. Since the criticism is about 'crumbling', we can't say it throws. Hence, option A is incorrect.
Option B - The wind damages a lot of things, but the criticism is for the crumbling of the weak things and people. Hence, option B is incorrect.
Option C - The wind crushes everything according to the poet, but it's not the synonym of 'crumbling'. Hence, option C is incorrect.
Option A - 'Crumbling' also means to break or disintegrate. Hence, option A is the correct answer.
Question 3
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Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Remember they have eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

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The poet wants to say that life is ____ anywhere.

A
Different

B
Common

C
Difficult

D
Comfortable

Solution

Option B is correct because it is clearly mentioned in the poem that - 'In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.'
There is no evidence in the poem to suggest that Options A, C, and D are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Question 4
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[passage-header]Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

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The phrase the leaping wealth of the tide, here refers to ___.

A
Fire

B
Water plants

C
Fish

D
Waves

Solution

In the last lines of the first stanza, the speaker calls out to his 'brothers' (probably all of them are fishermen) and says that they should gather their nets and set sail on their catamarans to "capture the leaping wealth of the tide". In this context, we can deduce that "leaping wealth of the tide" refers to fishes and not water plants, fire or even waves. Option C is the best answer.
Question 5
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Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Remember they have eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

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Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
By betraying someone we ____.

A
Defile our earth.

B
Betray ourselves.

C
Honour our earth.

D
Spread humanity on earth.

Solution

Option B is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the poem that - 'Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.'
Options A, C, and D are incorrect because the right answer is Option B.
Question 6
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Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Remember they have eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

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All the people in the world work ____.

A
With same name.

B
At same place.

C
In same style.

D
With same effort.

Solution

Option D is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the seventh and eight line of the poem that - 'Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.'
Options A, B, and C are incorrect because the right answer is Option D.
Question 7
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[passage-header]Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

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In the beginning of the poem, a fisherman tells other fisherman to_____.

A
Do exercise.

B
Wake up.

C
Catch fish.

D
Sell fish.

Solution

Option B is the right answer because the first line of the poem reads as - 'Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light'
Options A, C, and D are incorrect because the right answer is Option B.
Question 8
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Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Remember they have eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

...view full instructions

If we hate our brothers, we hate _____.

A
Our brothers

B
Our enemies

C
Ourselves

D
All of these

Solution

Option C is correct because it is clearly mentioned in the poem that - 'Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.'
There is no evidence in the poem to suggest that Options A and B are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.
Option D is incorrect because the right answer is Option C.
Question 9
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Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.
Remember they have eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other
It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

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The word "outrage" here means ______.

A
Protect

B
Defame

C
Spoil

D
Complain

Solution

In the last few lines of the poem, the poet says that the earth is the same everywhere and it is this common earth that we destroy with our bullets and war and the same air, 'our own' air, that we spoil with the use of weapons. In this context, option C is the best answer to the question asked- "outrage", as used by the poet, means spoil.
Question 10
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[passage-header]Read the poem carefully and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

...view full instructions

The fishermen are the friends of ___.

A
Sea

B
Clouds

C
Water animals

D
Waves

Solution

Comrade means a friend or a trusted companion with whom you have involved in difficult times.
Option D is correct because the poem speaks to the fishermen says that the waves are our comrades.
Option A is incorrect because according to the poet The sea is our mother.
Option B is incorrect because according to the poet The cloud is our brother.
There is no evidence in the poem to suggest that Option C is the right answer.
Therefore, it is incorrect.

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Question 1

stamina

strength

energy

boost

Solution

Question 2

throws

damages

crushes

breaks

Solution

Question 3

Different

Common

Difficult

Comfortable

Solution

Question 4

Fire

Water plants

Fish

Waves

Solution

Question 5

Defile our earth.

Betray ourselves.

Honour our earth.

Spread humanity on earth.

Solution

Question 6

With same name.

At same place.

In same style.

With same effort.

Solution

Question 7

Do exercise.

Wake up.

Catch fish.

Sell fish.

Solution

Question 8

Our brothers

Our enemies

Ourselves

All of these

Solution

Question 9

Protect

Defame

Spoil

Complain

Solution

Question 10

Sea

Clouds

Water animals

Waves

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