Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

The Declaration is quoted in the passage: 'The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of the digital ecosystem and digital economy', and it recognises 'the importance of policies to create an enabling, inclusive, open, fair and non-discriminatory digital economy'. So both statements come from the passage.

The pandemic's push towards digital use is the reason the Declaration stresses clear policies for that economy, so (R) explains (A). The options saying that one of them is false contradict the passage, and the option that denies the explanation overlooks that the policy need arises from the rise in digital use.

Answer: A

The key gives A, B, D.

The prime minister is quoted: 'The proper use of digital technologies can become a force multiplier in the decades-long global fight against poverty. Digital solutions can also be helpful in the fight against climate change', with remote working and paperless green offices as examples. So poverty (A) and climate change (B) are the challenges named, and paperless green offices (D) is the example the passage ties to the climate point.

Price surge (C) is not mentioned anywhere in the passage, which rules out every option containing C. Of the two options without C, only A, B, D includes both challenges the passage names.

Answer: C

Both A and B are right.

The Declaration is quoted: 'affordable and high-quality digital connectivity is essential for digital inclusion and digital transformation', which supports A. It continues: 'a resilient, safe and secure online environment is necessary to enhance confidence and trust in the digital economy', which supports B.

Each of the other options calls one or both statements wrong, which contradicts these lines.

Answer: B

Both A and B are correct.

Paragraph 4 says the working group established the Digital Innovation Network 'to enhance engagement among global innovation builders and drivers such as start-ups, venture capitalists and corporations', which is statement A. It adds that the main idea was 'to establish the G20 DIN as a launching pad for the Digital Economy', which is statement B.

The options that call one or both wrong therefore conflict with the passage. A small mismatch of wording (the network, not G20 as a whole, does the engaging) is overlooked by the question.

Answer: D

The doctors amputated her legs because they had no bones.

The passage says Aimee 'was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therfore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life.' The missing bones are the stated reason, and the paper's option puts it as 'they had no bones'.

Being disfigured, uneven in length or not strong is never given as a reason in the passage.

Answer: D

When she began to use designer legs she attracted the fashion and beauty industry.

The last paragraph says: 'The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee's talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products.' It adds that she is now a global model for a leading cosmetics brand.

Designers were the people she invited to make the legs, so they were not the ones drawn in afterwards. Sports committees and photographers are not mentioned.

Answer: C

Both A and B are correct, so the answer is both A and B are correct.

The passage tells of a painful childhood in these terms: she was born with no shin bones, her legs were amputated, and she 'had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital'. B is directly stated. A says her legs did not have bones, which loosely matches the missing shin bones that caused the amputation.

Taken strictly, the passage says shin bones were missing and not the whole leg. The question treats this as the cause of the pain, and the key accepts A on that reading. Options that reject A or B reject one of the two reasons the passage gives.

Answer: D

The true statement is that at the Boston meet Aimee was the only one on wooden legs.

The passage says: 'she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs.'

The meet was 'for the disabled' and not for double amputees only, since the other athletes had at least one normal leg. Her mother treated her 'as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment', the opposite of the second statement. She was asked to endorse beauty products, not health products.

Answer: A

She decided to enter the long jump competition next.

After discovering that she was the only one on wooden legs, her determination did not shake. The passage says she won, broke a national record, and then 'decided to enter the long jump competition next', an event double amputees were technically not supposed to enter.

She was already taking part in athletics before the meet, so that is not what she did in response. The designer legs and the fashion industry come later in the passage, after the world record.

Answer: B

In summer the cricket sang.

The first line says he was 'accustomed to sing / Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring'. The complaint that follows, about an empty cupboard, comes only once winter arrives.

Sitting and playing, sleeping and relaxing are never mentioned, and slogging like an ant is what the cricket did not do, which is exactly why he was short of food in winter.