Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The statement that is not false is He is all praise for a gentleman.

The writer defines the gentleman as one who never inflicts pain, calls him helpful and comforting, and lists only good qualities, so the tone is wholly one of praise.

Nothing in the passage says the writer observed a gentleman from a distance, so that statement is unsupported. A gentleman is not critical of people in trouble: He always offers a helping hand to those in distress. He does not turn a blind eye to obstacles either, because he is busy removing the hindrances in the way of others.

Answer: B

The word is Distress.

Comfort and happiness mean ease and well-being. Distress is suffering, anxiety or pain, the direct opposite, and the passage uses it for people in trouble who need a helping hand.

Hindrance means an obstacle, which is a cause of difficulty, not a feeling opposite to comfort. Genteel means polite and refined. Weary means tired and describes the traveller; it is the nearest rival, but it names a state of tiredness and not the opposite of happiness.

Answer: A

The word is Impose.

The passage says the gentleman does never impose himself upon others. To impose is to force oneself or something else on a person, which is the sense of the verb to force.

Inflict is close, but it means to cause something unpleasant such as pain or damage to be suffered, and the passage uses it with pain (never inflicts pain). Provide and offer mean to supply or hold out something, which is the opposite of forcing it on someone.

Answer: A

The right choice is A is true, B and C are false.

A is true: the passage speaks of His helpful nature. B is false: the passage mentions a glass of cool water for a weary traveller, but says nothing about winter. C is false: the gentleman's helping is described as providing comfort, and the passage never says that he finds it painful. Indeed it defines him as one who never inflicts pain.

So only A holds, and the options that make B or C true, or all three true, are wrong.

Answer: B

Command module is the control center and living quarters for most of the lunar mission for astronauts. The fourth sentence in the passage indicates flight. In summary, the passage is about flight into outer space, so option c is correct.

Answer: A

Catastrophe means tragedy and imminent means close at hand. A one type of tragedy close at hand and this is a nearest tragedy.So the answer is c

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: C

Correct answer: Demonstrating the fallacy of a particular way of thinking.

The passage names the anti-foreign bias, reports the folk wisdom behind it, says nothing could be further from truth, and then brings Smith and the Law of Comparative Advantage against it. The baker and the cobbler are the illustration used in that refutation, not the object of the passage.

Answer: C

Correct answer: provide a concrete illustration of an economic principle

The pair is introduced immediately after Smith's remark about the private family and the great kingdom, and the passage draws the moral itself: both men benefit from the trade because of the value of specialization. The same principle works for nations. The example is used, not assessed.

Answer: B

Correct answer: the Law of Comparative Advantage holds even when there is a large disparity in productivity between two nations

The passage says the theorem states that mutually beneficial trade is possible even if one nation is less productive than the other. That is what makes it startling: intuition says the less productive party must lose, and the law says otherwise.