Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Eliminate the destruction caused by a superficial knowledge of the physical world

The passage opens by saying it is to the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of the physical world hastily and superficially acquired. That is the reason it gives, and it is a reason about undoing harm rather than about adding knowledge.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The future will be brighter than the present

The passage says the road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash. The bestial yearning is those passions; the reward for controlling them is a world happier than any yet seen, which is more than merely tolerable.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Are closely linked with the life of modern man

The passage treats both as constant companions of the present moment: fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational, and we stand on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. It calls hopes rational, so they are not irrational, and it is hopes rather than fears that it says will bear good fruit.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Cultivate a positive outlook

The passage says we must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Analysing and avoiding dangers is exactly the habit it asks us to think less about.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Are flexible

The passage says the rules are not embodied and then explains what follows: the extent of their application depends upon the particular statutory framework under which the authority acts, and the legislature may even dispense with a requirement. Rules that bend to the framework are flexible, not vague or unintelligible.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Invests the administrative authority with enormous powers

The passage says the legislature confers the power, decides the statutory framework within which natural justice applies, and may even judge that recording reasons would not be in the larger public interest and dispense with such a requirement. All of that is the legislature deciding how much the authority may do.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Rules of natural justice and their application

The passage's central move is to separate the object of the rules - preventing miscarriage of justice and securing fair play - from how far they actually apply in any given case, which depends upon the particular statutory framework. The gap is between the rule and its reach.

Answer: A

Correct answer: To do without the demand

The passage says the legislature may feel that recording reasons is not in the larger public interest and it may dispense with such a requirement. The requirement is set aside rather than altered or cancelled as a charge, and only one procedure is at issue rather than all formal procedure.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Administrative authority observing the rules of fair play

The passage says the object of the rules is to secure fair play in action, and that recording reasons achieves it by excluding chances of arbitrariness and ensuring a degree of fairness in the process of decision making. Fair play in the process is what produces natural justice.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Dedicated workforce

The passage attributes Japanese success to organisation rather than invention, and its final sentence names the source: goods churned out of a workhouse which was dedicated to hard grind above all else. Original research is what the passage credits to the British, who nevertheless failed.