Passage Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: It is found in the cold regions of the Antarctic Circle

A introduces the penguin and C states a fact about it, so B must be a further plain fact of the same kind, with it pointing back to the bird. The three options about flippers all begin with they or their, which has no plural antecedent yet, and they belong after C, which raises the subject of flight.

Answer: A

Correct answer: It is one of only two gifts He has given us.

C begins the other is time, and the other requires B to have said there are exactly two. Only the keyed option does. An exclamation about the gift's value leaves the other pointing at nothing.

Answer: C

Correct answer: At first he could hardly understand the full significance of this collapse

This collapse refers back to A, where Arun suddenly finds himself in the streets, and C then begins the reckoning of what he still had. B is the moment between the two - the shock before the reckoning. The options about prices and the security deposit belong to that reckoning, which C is only starting.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Yet we use them like small children

C offers an example of our failure to manage our machines, so B must state that failure, and yet must set it against the god-like powers of A. The option calling machines our masters says something different, and the two about machines as servants and stern masters do not lead into C's example.

Answer: C

Correct answer: I wonder what the weather is going to be like tomorrow

C answers with what the paper says about tomorrow, so B must have raised the question of tomorrow's weather. Suggesting the radio would be answered by turning it on, not by quoting a newspaper.

Answer: B

Correct answer: He needed a dollar to pay his taxi and I lent it to him

C says it happened quite simply and naturally, so B must be the account of what happened for it to refer to. The two options quoting the words spoken are pieces of that account rather than the whole of it, and would leave the lending itself unstated.

Answer: A

Correct answer: It began with an invocation

C says after the prayer, there was a dance item, so a prayer must already have been mentioned; an invocation is that prayer. The options about the skit and the anthem describe later items, which would leave C's the prayer without an antecedent.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A speeding car came from a side road

C says the cyclist from the main road did not notice it, so B must supply the singular thing that went unnoticed, coming from somewhere other than the main road. Only the keyed option does. The collision and the cyclist being thrown are what follow, not what was missed.

Answer: B

Correct answer: I thought you liked hot weather.

Anurag replies yes, I do, but it's boiling today. Yes, I do can only answer a statement about what he likes, and but then qualifies it. A question about the weather report would be answered with whether he listens to it.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Don't you think the new student is a little strange?

Ricky answers I'm not sure. Why do you think he is?, so the blank must contain an opinion about a he whom Ricky can question. Molly's next line - he says nothing unless asked - is her evidence for calling him strange.