Reading Comprehension Test - 3

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Mahabharata

DUHSASANA was leading the Kaurava forces and Bhimasena did the same on the Pandava side. The noise of battle rolled and rent the air. The kettledrums, trumpets, horns and conchs made the sky ring with their clamor. Horses neighed, charging elephants trumpeted and the warriors uttered their lion-roars. Arrows flew in the air like burning meteors. Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews slew one another forgetful of old affection and ties of blood. It was a mad and terrible carnage. In the forenoon of the first day's battle the Pandava army was badly shaken. Wherever Bhishma's chariot went, it was like the dance of the destroyer. Abhimanyu could not bear this and he attacked Bhishma. When the oldest and the youngest warriors thus met in battle, the gods came to watch the combat. Abhimanyu's flag, displaying the golden karnikara tree brightly waved on his chariot, and this is how the battle started physically.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

Mahabharata

DUHSASANA was leading the Kaurava forces and Bhimasena did the same on the Pandava side. The noise of battle rolled and rent the air. The kettledrums, trumpets, horns and conchs made the sky ring with their clamor. Horses neighed, charging elephants trumpeted and the warriors uttered their lion-roars. Arrows flew in the air like burning meteors. Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews slew one another forgetful of old affection and ties of blood. It was a mad and terrible carnage. In the forenoon of the first day's battle the Pandava army was badly shaken. Wherever Bhishma's chariot went, it was like the dance of the destroyer. Abhimanyu could not bear this and he attacked Bhishma. When the oldest and the youngest warriors thus met in battle, the gods came to watch the combat. Abhimanyu's flag, displaying the golden karnikara tree brightly waved on his chariot, and this is how the battle started physically.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

Mahabharata

DUHSASANA was leading the Kaurava forces and Bhimasena did the same on the Pandava side. The noise of battle rolled and rent the air. The kettledrums, trumpets, horns and conchs made the sky ring with their clamor. Horses neighed, charging elephants trumpeted and the warriors uttered their lion-roars. Arrows flew in the air like burning meteors. Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews slew one another forgetful of old affection and ties of blood. It was a mad and terrible carnage. In the forenoon of the first day's battle the Pandava army was badly shaken. Wherever Bhishma's chariot went, it was like the dance of the destroyer. Abhimanyu could not bear this and he attacked Bhishma. When the oldest and the youngest warriors thus met in battle, the gods came to watch the combat. Abhimanyu's flag, displaying the golden karnikara tree brightly waved on his chariot, and this is how the battle started physically.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

Mahabharata

DUHSASANA was leading the Kaurava forces and Bhimasena did the same on the Pandava side. The noise of battle rolled and rent the air. The kettledrums, trumpets, horns and conchs made the sky ring with their clamor. Horses neighed, charging elephants trumpeted and the warriors uttered their lion-roars. Arrows flew in the air like burning meteors. Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews slew one another forgetful of old affection and ties of blood. It was a mad and terrible carnage. In the forenoon of the first day's battle the Pandava army was badly shaken. Wherever Bhishma's chariot went, it was like the dance of the destroyer. Abhimanyu could not bear this and he attacked Bhishma. When the oldest and the youngest warriors thus met in battle, the gods came to watch the combat. Abhimanyu's flag, displaying the golden karnikara tree brightly waved on his chariot, and this is how the battle started physically.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

Mahabharata

DUHSASANA was leading the Kaurava forces and Bhimasena did the same on the Pandava side. The noise of battle rolled and rent the air. The kettledrums, trumpets, horns and conchs made the sky ring with their clamor. Horses neighed, charging elephants trumpeted and the warriors uttered their lion-roars. Arrows flew in the air like burning meteors. Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews slew one another forgetful of old affection and ties of blood. It was a mad and terrible carnage. In the forenoon of the first day's battle the Pandava army was badly shaken. Wherever Bhishma's chariot went, it was like the dance of the destroyer. Abhimanyu could not bear this and he attacked Bhishma. When the oldest and the youngest warriors thus met in battle, the gods came to watch the combat. Abhimanyu's flag, displaying the golden karnikara tree brightly waved on his chariot, and this is how the battle started physically.

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One morning in August, in 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen (15), and Richard (13), woke up early. They got dressed very quietly, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, “We are going to visit Grandma.” They moved out slowly to Mr. Benz’s workshop, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work – the first engine car.

Imagine it – a wooden construction more similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood, two wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle instead of a steering wheel, leather-covered seats and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone through a great deal of development since its registration (No. DRP 37435) two years before, but Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that most people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In contrast, his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new “horseless carriage.”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

One morning in August, in 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen (15), and Richard (13), woke up early. They got dressed very quietly, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, “We are going to visit Grandma.” They moved out slowly to Mr. Benz’s workshop, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work – the first engine car.

Imagine it – a wooden construction more similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood, two wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle instead of a steering wheel, leather-covered seats and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone through a great deal of development since its registration (No. DRP 37435) two years before, but Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that most people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In contrast, his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new “horseless carriage.”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

One morning in August, in 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen (15), and Richard (13), woke up early. They got dressed very quietly, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, “We are going to visit Grandma.” They moved out slowly to Mr. Benz’s workshop, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work – the first engine car.

Imagine it – a wooden construction more similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood, two wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle instead of a steering wheel, leather-covered seats and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone through a great deal of development since its registration (No. DRP 37435) two years before, but Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that most people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In contrast, his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new “horseless carriage.”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

One morning in August, in 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen (15), and Richard (13), woke up early. They got dressed very quietly, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, “We are going to visit Grandma.” They moved out slowly to Mr. Benz’s workshop, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work – the first engine car.

Imagine it – a wooden construction more similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood, two wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle instead of a steering wheel, leather-covered seats and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone through a great deal of development since its registration (No. DRP 37435) two years before, but Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that most people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In contrast, his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new “horseless carriage.”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options.

One morning in August, in 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen (15), and Richard (13), woke up early. They got dressed very quietly, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, “We are going to visit Grandma.” They moved out slowly to Mr. Benz’s workshop, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work – the first engine car.

Imagine it – a wooden construction more similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood, two wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle instead of a steering wheel, leather-covered seats and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine. The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone through a great deal of development since its registration (No. DRP 37435) two years before, but Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that most people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In contrast, his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new “horseless carriage.”