Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The statement that follows with certainty is Some of Ravi's friends are hardworking and kind.

The passage says that almost all of Ravi's friends were hardworking and kind. If almost all of them are, then at least some of them are, so this statement is guaranteed.

'All of Ravi's friends' overstates 'almost all'. The passage says nothing about people who are not Ravi's friends, so the claim that none of them is hardworking and kind cannot be inferred. And only some of his friends showed a similar disinterest in sports, so 'none of Ravi's friends are interested in sports' goes beyond the information given.

Answer: B

The correct inference is eating healthy can be started at any age, earlier the better.

The passage says it is 'never too early' to start eating healthy and gives the example that babies who eat healthily in their first year tend to have better health later. Together these support starting at any age, with an earlier start being better.

Nothing in the passage restricts the benefit to people already in good health, so the first option is unsupported. It does not compare how strongly diet and health are correlated at different ages, and it does not say healthy eating matters more for adults than for children; if anything it stresses an early start.

Answer: A

The best summary is Thorough regimentation was the main reason for the efficiency of the Roman legions even in adverse circumstances.

The passage says discipline kept units obedient, intact and fighting even when the odds and conditions were against them. Regimentation is strict discipline, and the option restates that effect.

The passage calls the discipline brutal but says nothing about the men being treated as animals. 'Legacies' in the passage means what the legions left behind, not what they inherited from seniors. And the passage says discipline helped despite adverse odds; it does not say the discipline caused those odds, so the last option reverses cause and effect.

Answer: C

The passage describes allurement leading to Simmy's dilemma about stealing.

The cookies tempt her (allurement), and the whole passage is about her inner struggle 'between survival and ethics', ending with her 'divided between giving in to the demand of hunger or standing by her morals'. That is a dilemma about whether to steal.

She never actually steals, so the passage is not about 'negative behaviour' or 'bravery in resorting to theft'. Divine intervention is something she seeks for herself; the passage says nothing about any divine quality of the biscuits.

Answer: B

As author says simply in the first three lines gross ignorance of one and another should be diminished that they should begin to understand a little of one another historical experience and resulting mentality.option B is correct.

Answer: A

Correct answer: it brought him face to face with reality

The passage says the dream dramatised for Harold what he had never been able to put into words - that he was letting society feed on him in exchange for security later. What frightened him was recognising his own life in it, which is why he woke screaming only after realising the creatures were on his own body.

Answer: D

Correct answer: subject to change in the light of new facts

The passage says that if matter appears not to obey a law of nature, we do not say the matter has misbehaved but that the law has been incorrectly stated. A statement that gets revised when the facts contradict it is by definition provisional.