Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The answer is God.

The boy asks himself, 'Does not God who is present everywhere see me?' He felt the presence of God watching him all the time, and that is why he chose to remain poor with a clear conscience rather than keep the watch.

The rich lady was not in the room, as the passage says he perceived no one there. His mother and his mind are not mentioned in the passage at all.

Answer: C

The primary consequence the passage names is disruption of food production.

The passage says extreme weather events such as hurricanes and droughts 'disrupt food production, damage infrastructure' and pose risks to human well-being, so food production is the consequence it states outright.

'Improved weather patterns' reverses the passage, which speaks of more extreme weather. 'Reduced public health concerns' is the opposite of the 'serious risks to human well-being' it mentions. 'Stabilization of global economies' contradicts the statement that climate change influences global economics, and nothing in the text suggests stability.

In a comprehension item, pick the option the text states directly and discard any that flip its meaning.

Answer: B

The events the passage names as increasing in frequency are hurricanes and droughts.

The second sentence reads 'The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts', so option B repeats the two examples the author gives.

Earthquakes and tsunamis are geological or seismic events, not weather events, and the passage never mentions them. Tornadoes and floods and volcanoes and wildfires are also absent from the text, and volcanoes are again geological. Each wrong option mixes in at least one event the passage does not name.

The passage is printed without a source, and a web search did not find one.

Answer: A

The statement that can be inferred is Lack of self control had put Luke into trouble.

The passage says Sean was reluctant to take Luke along because of his habit of euphoric exhibition of extreme excitement. At the orchard, the sight of the unlimited fruit made Luke excited and he lifted his voice, which brought the Emperor's men to him, and they beat him. His inability to control his excitement is what caused the trouble.

Option B has no support: Luke's only remark about his uncle is a curious question about how he stays well fed. Option C over-reads the text: it describes a habit of showing excitement, and shouting is a single incident, not a stated habit of speaking loudly. Option D is the opposite of what happens, since the Emperor's men treat the fruit as theirs to protect and punish the intruder.

Answer: B

The word nearest in meaning to 'reluctant' here is Disinclined.

Reluctant means unwilling or hesitant to do something. Disinclined has the same sense of not being keen to act. In the passage Sean is hesitant about taking Luke to the orchard but in the end he agrees to take him along.

Against, resistant and opposed all describe active opposition. A person who is opposed or resistant refuses and works against the plan, whereas Sean, though unwilling, gives in. That difference in strength is why Disinclined is the closest match.

Answer: A

The answer is People think they are underrated in their intelligence and understanding.

The passage says we look upon the giver of advice as offering an affront to our understanding and intelligence, treating us as children or idiots, and that we take the instruction as an implicit censure. Option A restates this.

Nothing in the passage calls advice old-fashioned or unnecessary (B), says people fail to understand it (C), or says they believe they already know it (D); the objection it gives is about being talked down to.

Answer: D

The answer is Through use of chosen words, show of wit and by using short and precise expressions as used in proverbs and fables.

The passage lists the devices of great writers: best chosen words, a flash of wit, precise expressions like proverbs, and above all the fable. Option D gathers these.

Quoting religious or other texts (A), help from rulers (B) and finest poetry (C) are not mentioned anywhere in the passage.

Answer: C

The answer is Because they present an imaginary world and the criticism contained in them is never direct.

The passage ends by saying a fable pleases most universally because it is not directly related to our everyday world and contains no direct attack. Option C puts this in other words.

The passage does not say fables come from ancient writers (A), that they are complete stories (B), or that they share one subject everywhere (D).

Answer: B

The landslides were caused by torrential rain.

The passage opens with the sentence 'Fresh landslides have occurred on the northern side of the Teesta bridge towards Sikkim causing severe damage at several places following torrential rain last night.' The rain is named as the cause in the very first line.

Floods are mentioned later, but only as the rivers of North Bengal rising, not as the cause of the landslides. Snowfall and cyclone are not mentioned anywhere in the passage.

Answer: C

According to local people the landslides are much worse than last September's.

The passage says 'Local villagers said that the landslides were much worse than last September when the highway had been reopened after a week'. The comparison with last September is stated, and the degree is 'much worse'.

'As bad as' denies any difference, and 'worse than' drops the force of 'much'. The option that says such landslides never occurred before is contradicted by the mention of the landslides of last September.