Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: A catastrophe was imminent.

A master alarm and a warning light are what a spacecraft uses to signal danger, and the wall of the tunnel shivering just before them points the same way. The debris and the moon are things the narrator saw, not causes of the alarm, and Jack was reporting the light rather than triggering it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of the above

Unfiltered by layers of air says the sunlight reached them without passing through an atmosphere - that is, they were outside it. It says nothing about the sun's heat or about wind, and unpolluted air is still air, which is exactly what was absent.

Answer: D

Correct answer: These are thoughtfully and vigorously designed to serve people's need.

The passage says a city can enhance life but for that to happen deliberate and drastic planning is needed, and then lists what such planning must provide. Planning is therefore the condition on which everything else depends. Transport and cinemas are items on that list, not the condition itself, and mechanically developed is the opposite of the deliberate design the passage calls for.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The need for planned cities.

Every part of the passage argues the same thing: a city can enhance life, but only if it is planned - organ systems for recreation and culture, open space, fine buildings, and grouping that should mean something important to the people of the place. Animals, transport and entertainment each appear as illustrations within that argument, so none of them can be the title.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A city should not defeat the fulfilment of life's aspiration and aims.

A frustrater is something that defeats or thwarts, so saying a city need not be a frustrater of life is saying it need not defeat what people hope for. The option about a city providing all essential needs is a different and stronger claim, and the passage makes clear that a city only does this if it is planned for it.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Promoter

Frustrater means one who blocks or defeats an aim, so its opposite is one who advances it - a promoter. Applauder and approver express approval rather than help, and an executer carries out what somebody else has decided.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Should be built according to some suitable design, not indiscriminately.

Anyhow and anywhere are the two words the sentence objects to, so it is arguing against carelessness in both design and placement. The passage adds that buildings and their grouping should mean something important to the people of the place, which is a demand for design, not for wider spacing.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Powerful

Drastic means far-reaching and forceful, so of the four powerful is the closest. Orderly, consistent and determined all describe how something is done rather than how great its effect is.

Answer: B

Correct answer: By allowing nature to retain its primitive and undomesticated character.

Unspoilt means not interfered with, so nature stays unspoilt precisely when it is left as it is. Free access to parks describes what the passage wants people to have, not what keeps nature unspoilt, and the organ-system comparison is about the city, not about nature.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Raise the tone of life and make it more meaningful.

The passage opens by calling the city a mechanism for enhancing life and closes by requiring buildings to mean something important to the people of the place. Community expression, gatherings and traffic are means to that end; the question asks for the end itself.