Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: It would undermine self-sufficiency and destroy the beauty of life of the villager

The passage says Gandhi believed industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor, and sets against it self-sufficiency in food and cloth and a life free of the century's temptations. What industrialisation threatens is therefore that self-sufficiency and that simplicity.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Those who inherited political powers after independence

The passage says the vision did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power. The option about those who disbelieved in industrialisation names people who would have shared the dream, not rejected it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Ambiguity in speech

The passage lists what turns a would-be friend into an enemy: a slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word. Ambiguity is named there, and the paragraph goes on to explain the danger - that a word may bear a different meaning to our listener than to us. Pomposity is mentioned, but as how the educated sound, not as what loses a friend.

Answer: B

Correct answer: His vocabulary

The passage says different classes of people use different vocabularies and that educated speech may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. The remedy that follows from this is to meet the listener in the vocabulary he uses. Simple words is close, but the passage's point is about matching the listener rather than about simplicity as such.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Foolish

The passage ends with the judgement itself: only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of men. The other three options describe how such speech might sound; the passage says what it makes the speaker.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Unintentionally

A slip of the tongue is a mistake in speaking that the speaker did not mean to make; the whole point of the passage is that such accidents can create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend. Saying something wrongly by choice or to hurt another person would be deliberate, which a slip by definition is not.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Create misunderstanding

The passage says speech can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood, and everything after that sentence - the slip of the tongue, the ambiguous word, the class difference in vocabulary - illustrates how. Revealing our intentions is given as the blessing, not the curse.

Answer: A

Correct answer: are quite punctual but not duty conscious

The passage says employees report for duty on time and at the same time doing little work, and then itemises the gossiping, tea, pan and cigarettes that fill the day. Punctuality and productivity are separated exactly this way, so the option about lateness contradicts the passage and the ones about temperament and qualifications are never raised.

Answer: D

Correct answer: is more or less ineffective

The passage says the administrative set-up remains weak, and traces that weakness to leadership that sets no example and to staff more concerned with pleasing their bosses than with working. Red tape is a different complaint and is nowhere mentioned.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Evaluation

If an assessment is made of the time they spent… means if that time were measured and judged, which is what evaluation denotes. An enquiry investigates, a report records, and a summary shortens; none of the three weighs or judges.