Passage Completion Questions and Answers

Dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago ___________. The most accepted one is that a giant asteroid crashed into earth around this time and caused catastrophic changes to the climate. It was probably freezing cold and the dinosaurs could not adapt to the new weather conditions.

We know that dogs are a human's best friend. They love us and we love them __________. Many scientists think they came from wolves 15,000 years ago. Although wolves are wild and dogs are tame, they're still a lot alike. Both wag their tails when happy and put their tails between their legs when scared.

Dogs are easy to educate. Well-educated dogs are sometimes used as watchdog?s __________. It is interesting, though, that these dogs, which can become terrifyingly wild in times of danger, pose no harm to their owners. In the face of a threat, they put their lives in danger to save their owners.

Nature has millions of interwoven interrelationships among the numerous flora and fauna __________. These food webs and pyramids can give scientists a broad idea that organisms interact with each other for their food, shelter and mating. Each specific interrelationship if studied in depth can be very interesting and brings to light significant facts of our surroundings and the importance of every living being on this earth.

Some sentences are missing from the text. Select from the list (A-C) the most appropriate sentence for each gap (1 and 2) in the text. There is one extra sentence that you do not need to use.

A new chapter in India's scientific past opened with the arrival of the Aryans around 2000 BC, roughly 1,000 years after the fall of the Indus Valley civilization. (1) ________. The universe was thought to be governed by a natural law. The panchabhutas, or five factors, were used to explain this seemingly chaotic and diverse world: prithvi (earth), ap (water), tejas (heat), vayu (air), and akasa (sky). The panchabhutas and the soul were combined in the human body. (2) ________.

A. There is evidence to suggest that the Aryans believed in science.
B. Aryans are believed to be a highly religious race.
C. Aryans' Sulbasutras also trace the Pythagoras theorem.

A. In ancient India the city of Ujjain was quite famous. B. ______________________. C. Here lived at one time the poet Kalidas