Reading Comprehension Test 10

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Amelia Earhart
It was 1932. A plane touched down the tarmac flying all the way across the Atlantic. As people waited for the pilot to get off the plane, they were in for a surprise. It was a woman and she was alone! Amelia Mary Earhart was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was born on 24th July 1897 in Kansas, USA and showed a spirit of adventure early on. She was a tomboy who loved climbing trees and going on exploring trips in the neighborhood.
During WWI, Amelia went to Canada and worked there as a nurse's aide in a military hospital. In 1920, she went to see a stunt-flying exhibition. A thrilled Amelia said, "I believe that the little red airplane said something to me as it swished by." In December 1920, she sat on a plane for the first time and took to flying like a duck to water! Within six months of flying lessons, she bought her own plane. It wasn't long before she became the first woman to fly to 14,000 feet.
In 1928, Amelia took up an offer to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She took off in a Fokker F7 named Friendship. With her, were a pilot Stultz and co-pilot and mechanic, Gordon. Amelia arrived in Wales after 21 hours. This news made headlines, worldwide. She had become the first woman pilot to fly successfully across the Atlantic. On her return, she was welcomed back with a reception at the White House by President Coolidge. When she flew solo in 1932, she got a gold medal from the National Geographic Society and the Distinguished Flying Cross from her country's President.
Until then, people thought that only men could do jobs that needed people to be intelligent and organized, stay calm and strong under pressure, and work efficiently. Amelia proved that women can do so too. After almost a year's planning, in 1937, she took off on a flying journey across the world. Sadly, her airplane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. The world lost a champion woman who went chasing her dreams. Yet to this day, it remembers her courage and amazing achievements. And you can see Amelia smiling through every woman pilot flying high, on any ordinary day.

Receptionist: Thank you for calling Pioneer Dental Clinic. Mary speaking. How can I help you?
Sonia: Hi Mary. It's Sonia Jain calling. How are you today?
Receptionist: I'm fine Mrs. Jain. How are you?
Sonia: Well actually, I have a bit of a sore tooth. I was wondering if Dr. Khan would have some time to see me this week.
Receptionist: I'm afraid he's booked this week. I can put you in for $$8$$ pm next Saturday. Is that alright with you?
Sonia: That would be great.
Receptionist: I'll have to give you the address of our new office.
Sonia: Oh, that's right, you moved.
Receptionist: Yes, we moved to the suburbs. do you have a pen handy?
Sonia: Could you hold on a moment please? Okay, go ahead Mary.
Receptionist: We are at $$201$$, Silver Mall, M.G. road.
Sonia: Would you mind spelling that for me?
Receptionist: Sure. That's two-zero-one, silver-S as in Simla, I as in India, L as in Lucknow, V as in Victor, E as in Echo. R as in Romeo. Mall-M as in Mile, A as in Alpha, L as in Lucknow. M.G. road is Mehruali-Gurgaon road.
Sonia: Okay great. I'll see you on Saturday then.
Receptionist: Okay. Thanks for calling. See you then.
Sonia: Thanks. Bye.

Julius Caesar, the great Roman emperor, was well known for making crucial decisions quickly. 

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Amelia Earhart
It was 1932. A plane touched down the tarmac flying all the way across the Atlantic. As people waited for the pilot to get off the plane, they were in for a surprise. It was a woman and she was alone! Amelia Mary Earhart was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was born on 24th July 1897 in Kansas, USA and showed a spirit of adventure early on. She was a tomboy who loved climbing trees and going on exploring trips in the neighborhood.
During WWI, Amelia went to Canada and worked there as a nurse's aide in a military hospital. In 1920, she went to see a stunt-flying exhibition. A thrilled Amelia said, "I believe that the little red airplane said something to me as it swished by." In December 1920, she sat on a plane for the first time and took to flying like a duck to water! Within six months of flying lessons, she bought her own plane. It wasn't long before she became the first woman to fly to 14,000 feet.
In 1928, Amelia took up an offer to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She took off in a Fokker F7 named Friendship. With her, were a pilot Stultz and co-pilot and mechanic, Gordon. Amelia arrived in Wales after 21 hours. This news made headlines, worldwide. She had become the first woman pilot to fly successfully across the Atlantic. On her return, she was welcomed back with a reception at the White House by President Coolidge. When she flew solo in 1932, she got a gold medal from the National Geographic Society and the Distinguished Flying Cross from her country's President.
Until then, people thought that only men could do jobs that needed people to be intelligent and organized, stay calm and strong under pressure, and work efficiently. Amelia proved that women can do so too. After almost a year's planning, in 1937, she took off on a flying journey across the world. Sadly, her airplane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. The world lost a champion woman who went chasing her dreams. Yet to this day, it remembers her courage and amazing achievements. And you can see Amelia smiling through every woman pilot flying high, on any ordinary day.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]By the time he was nine years old, Aftab Solanki weighed $$49$$ kilos, nearly twice the normal weight for boys his age. His doting parents and neighbours considered him "healthy", often describing or calling Aftab "cute".
His sluggishness and increasing appetite, his periodic breathlessness, occasional dizzy spells and pain in the knees were all dismissed as things that would disappear once he grew up. "But as his weight kept increasing, we became concerned and wanted to consult a good doctor," says Aftab's father Mohammed Ramzan Solanki.
Kids like Aftab are part of a fast-growing national urban epidemic seen over the past few decades. It's an irony that despite there being more undernourished children in India than in any other country, we also have millions of obese and overweight urban school children. And experts say these obese children will one day face severe medical consequences. Compared to children of normal weight, obese ones face several times the risk for developing high blood pressure, respiratory complications, Type-$$2$$ diabetes(the most common form of the disease), cardiovascular disease and cancer - and, indeed, much reduced life-spans.
"The medical consequences of obesity are seen at all ages, even among kids," says Dr. Vaman Khadikar, consultant pediatric endocrinologist at Jehangir Hospital, Pune. "Our youngest Type-$$2$$ diabetic is six-year-old, while a hypertensive patient is just eight. High levels of cholesterol and triglycerides - both of which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease- are seen in children very frequency now a days, unlike in the past. And we routinely see these high levels in obese children."

[passage-header]Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Did I Ever Stop?
Did I ever stop to make you smile
When your day was hard or your road was long?
When your light stopped shinning for a while,

[passage-header]Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Did I Ever Stop?
Did I ever stop to make you smile
When your day was hard or your road was long?
When your light stopped shinning for a while,

[passage-header][/passage-header]Suppose an accident occurs as you are passing by. You see a person lying unconscious and helpless. What should you do? You could go past the injured person and look away, or you could stop and help him. It is our duty to help those who are in need of help. Imagine your plight if you had an accident and no one came to your aid$$!$$ We must care about the lives of other people as much as we care about our own.
It is also our duty to help those who are less fortunate than us. In his time, Raja Ram Mohan Roy sought to improve the lot of women in India. He set up schools and institutions to educate them. He worked hard to raise them to a position of respect and importance in the joint family system. He urged them to develop their minds and to acquire some skill. Raja Ram Mohan Roy had a social conscience. He realized that it was his duty to improve the lives of Indian women.
Florence Nightingale cared so much for others that she gave up a life of luxury to devote herself to nursing the sick and the wounded. Elizabeth Fry and Mother Teresa worked all their lives to change the pitiable conditions of prisoners, beggars and all who were less fortunate than them. Both of them dedicated their lives to the cause of the poor, sick, and the handicapped.
You, too, must develop within yourself this feeling of concern for the welfare of others. We all cannot be Florence Nightingales or Mother Teresas but we can certainly develop the ability to be kind-hearted towards other people.

[passage-header]Read the following poem carefully and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Early Memory.
I remember picking up a fistful of sand, smooth crystals, like hourglass sand and throwing it into the eyes of a boy. Johny or Danny or Kevin- he was not important.
I was five and I knew he would cry.
I remember everything about it-
The sandbox in the corner of the room
at Cinderella Day Care; Ms. Lee,
Who ran over after the boy wailed for his mother,
Her stern look as the words "no snack" formed on her lips.
My hands with their gritty, half-mooned fingernails.
I hid in the pockets of my blue and white dress.
How she found them and uncurled small sandy fists.
There must have been such rage in me, to give such pain to another person. This afternoon, I saw a man pull a gold chain off the neck of a woman as she crossed the street.
She cried out with a sound that bleached me.
I walked on, unable to help,
knowing that fire in childhood
clenched deep in my pockets all the way home.

[passage-header][/passage-header]Suppose an accident occurs as you are passing by. You see a person lying unconscious and helpless. What should you do? You could go past the injured person and look away, or you could stop and help him. It is our duty to help those who are in need of help. Imagine your plight if you had an accident and no one came to your aid$$!$$ We must care about the lives of other people as much as we care about our own.
It is also our duty to help those who are less fortunate than us. In his time, Raja Ram Mohan Roy sought to improve the lot of women in India. He set up schools and institutions to educate them. He worked hard to raise them to a position of respect and importance in the joint family system. He urged them to develop their minds and to acquire some skill. Raja Ram Mohan Roy had a social conscience. He realized that it was his duty to improve the lives of Indian women.
Florence Nightingale cared so much for others that she gave up a life of luxury to devote herself to nursing the sick and the wounded. Elizabeth Fry and Mother Teresa worked all their lives to change the pitiable conditions of prisoners, beggars and all who were less fortunate than them. Both of them dedicated their lives to the cause of the poor, sick, and the handicapped.
You, too, must develop within yourself this feeling of concern for the welfare of others. We all cannot be Florence Nightingales or Mother Teresas but we can certainly develop the ability to be kind-hearted towards other people.