Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

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Inference: Multinational corporate system

1. The degree to which people are willing to tolerate the unevenness that the multinational corporate system generates is crucial to its viability. It is important to keep in mind that Capitalism's new imperialism began after 1870. After 1914, the triumphant era was marked by war, depression, the collapse of the international economic system, and yet another war rather than Free Trade, Pax Britannica, and Material Improvement. Britain's inability to deal with the by-product of its own rapid capital accumulation—a class-conscious labour force domestically, a middle class in the hinterland, and rival capital centres on the continent and in the United States—was a major factor.
2. Instead of being progressive, Britain's policy tended to be aggressive and defensive, more concerned with preventing new threats than with expanding into new areas. Ironically, the landed aristocracy's belongings were revived in Edwardian England. Colonial administrators frequently implemented policies to stifle the growth of either a native proletariat or a native capitalist class, both of which had the potential to overthrow the Empire. The centre had to rely on alliances with an ineffective class of landlords, officials, and soldiers in the hinterland to maintain stability at the expense of development as time went on. As a result, the centre had to devote an increasing portion of government activity to the military and other wasteful expenditures. As a result, a significant portion of the population's surplus was invested locally.
3. India's corporate sector was established to break free of these restrictions and open up a variety of economic sectors. Although export-import policy, technology advancement, fiscal policy, and foreign investment liberalization proposals were prefaced in the 1980s, industrial licensing and economic reform policies launched in 1991 were more general. The financial sector, the industrial sector, the foreign exchange markets, tax reforms, the investment and trade sectors, and the industrial sector all gained recognition after 1991.

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Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

The popular saying is, ‘Learn to accept the things you cannot change.’ Or, ignore. Imagine you find yourself in the middle of a ferocious argument between two colleagues. What would you do – take sides and incur the wrath of the other? Demand that they pipe down and join in the confusion? Or simply walk away, ignoring them?

The safest is perhaps to ignore, but that could be mistaken for indifference, disinterest or even apathy. Yet the answer to a lot of sticky situations in life could possibly be to ignore it for the moment; to let things settle down and find their own level. That way, the heat and the dust settle down, and better sense would prevail.

To ignore something is not the same as not caring; it could even mean that you care so much that you have decided to ignore it so that it does not get worse. That is to say, to ignore responsibly – but it does not mean that you can ignore your responsibility when you are required to be responsible. Is there a way to ignore someone or something without causing offence?

To ignore is a passive response (rather, a nonresponse); there is little chance of sparking a conflict. Sometimes, silence is truly golden, for it creates the space for reflection and for calming down. Agitation only fuels further agitation and misunderstanding, whereas remaining silent could have the opposite effect, of easing tension and bringing in the much-needed calm. A lot of tricky situations in life tend to sort themselves out if only we had held our tongue and kept the peace.

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Inference: A plant that causes itching

1. Because it is a legume, the plant can store nitrogen and add nutrients to the soil. The beans are eaten and are commonly referred to as "Benguk" in Indonesia, particularly Java. Benguktempe or "tempeBenguk" is a food made from fermenting the beans that is similar to tempeh.

2. It has hair on both sides of the leaf. The leaflets have two- to three-millimetre-long stems. There are additional adjacent leaves that are approximately 5 mm long. In the tropics, it is a common fodder plant. As a result, animals are fed the entire plant as silage, which is dried hay on dried seeds. The dried beans contain 20-35% crude protein, 35-40% crude fibre, and 11-23% crude protein in its silage.

3. It is a tropical legume that grows in Africa, India, and the Caribbean. It is also known as velvet bean or cowitch and by other common names. The plant is well-known for its severe itching. It makes contact, particularly with the seed pods and young foliage. It is useful in horticulture and agriculture, and it has a number of medicinal properties.

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Colour in birds is caused by pigments and structure. Buffs, red browns, dark browns, and blacks are caused by melanins, pigments synthesised by the bird and laid down in granules. Yellows, oranges and reds come from carotenoid or lipochrome pigments; these originate at least in part from the food and are diffused in the skin and feathers. Porphyrin feather pigments occur in birds but less frequently than melanins and carotenoids. Blue colours in feathers are structural, based on a thin, porous layer of keratin overlying melanin pigment. Most greens result from the addition of yellow pigment to the structural blue colour. Iridescent colours result from the thinly laminated structure of the barbules and are enhanced by underlying melanin deposits.

Birds' feet are covered with scales like those of reptiles. The scales are occasionally shed, but the timing of this molt is not known. The toes are tipped with claws, and vestigial claws are not infrequently found on the tips of the first two digits of the wing. The bill is covered with a sheet of keratin, the rhamphotheca, which in petrels and a few other birds is divided into plates. In birds that probe for food (kiwis, woodcocks, etc.), many sensory pores are found near the tip of the bill. Both melanins and carotenoids are found in the rhamphotheca and in the scales of the feet.

The skin of a bird is almost without glands. The important exception is the preen gland, which lies on the rump at the base of the tail. The secretion of this gland contains approximately one-half lipids (fats and oils) and is probably important in dressing and waterproofing the plumage. In a few birds, the secretion has a strong, offensive odour. Some birds, in which the gland is small or absent, have a specialised type of feather (powder down) that grows continuously and breaks down into a fine powder, believed to be used in dressing the plumage.