Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The young woman kept her cool.

The passage says she 'kept cool and smiled all the time' even though some of the women were very abusive, and directed each of them to the right department with poise.

Being sad, impatient or very angry is the opposite of the calm the passage describes.

Answer: A

Every successful person must have self-control.

The passage says 'Every successful person must have some sort of a balance wheel for his or her emotions', and the whole passage is about self-control.

Good environment, money and prestige are not mentioned as requirements.

Answer: C

Only (A) is correct.

(A) is supported by the first paragraph: people choose vegetarianism to 'live longer, healthier lives' and to 'preserve earth's natural resources'.

(B) is not supported. The passage says vegetarianism has not spread as it should because it 'is an inward-looking habit', and it says nothing on heart disease or its treatment.

So 'both correct', 'both incorrect' and 'only (B) correct' are out.

Answer: A

Vegetarianism is not as popular as it should be because it is an inward-looking habit best cultivated in the mind.

The passage says it 'has not spread as it should have. This may be because it usually is an inward-looking habit and is best cultivated in the mind.'

Preserving resources is a motive for adopting it. The natural way of life and co-existence with animals are its qualities, not causes of its limited spread.

Answer: B

The option that is not a motive is that people find vegetarian food cheaper than non-vegetarian food.

The passage lists the motives: living longer and healthier lives, reducing pollution, preserving the earth's natural resources and loving animals while opposing eating them. Cost is never given as a reason.

The other three options each restate one of those motives, so they cannot be the answer to a 'NOT' question.

Answer: B

The kind of house not found in the meadow is a stable.

The last stanza invites the reader to explore 'the meadow houses': the burrows in the ground, a nest beneath tall grasses and the ant's amazing mound. A stable is a building for horses and cattle made by people, and the poem never mentions it.

So nest, burrows and ant's mound are all named as meadow houses and cannot be the answer.

Answer: D

Only (B) is right, so the answer is (B) is right and (A) is wrong.

(B) is accepted as true: the buttercup is where the butterfly rests and sips nectar, so the flower is shown drawing it in.

(A) is wrong because the poem says the rabbit is 'sitting very still' in the open, which you may fail to see until he hops. It never says he hides in a burrow; burrows are named separately as meadow houses.

Hence neither 'both right', 'both wrong' nor '(A) right and (B) wrong' fits the poem.

Answer: A

The figure of speech is a metaphor.

The butterfly's long feeding tube, its proboscis, is called its 'drinking straws'. The line does not say the proboscis is like a straw; it simply calls it one. An implied comparison without 'like' or 'as' is a metaphor.

A simile would make the comparison openly with 'like' or 'as'. Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in nearby words, which the line does not depend on. Imagery, language that creates a picture for the senses, is present in a broad sense, but the specific device that names the proboscis a straw is the metaphor.

Answer: A

The meadow does not hold the hopping of a frog out of the brook as a surprise.

The poem names the butterfly sipping nectar, the soft velvet grass, the sound of the brook and the rabbit that hops. A frog hopping out of the brook is never mentioned, although a brook is.

A butterfly feeding on nectar, the softness of the grass and the murmur of the stream (the brook to listen to) are each in the poem, so they are surprises the meadow does hold.

Answer: A

You will find the rabbit when he hops.

The lines read: 'Though at first you may not see him, when he hops you will.' The rabbit sits still and goes unseen until the hop gives him away.

Sleeping and being in a burrow are not stated anywhere. 'When he is sitting still' is the opposite of the poem: sitting still is why you do not see him at first.