Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: The poorer marketing ability of British

The rule is stated just before the list: the British are a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. The examples that follow are British inventions that came to nothing, so the rule is about British exploitation, not about Japanese inventiveness.

Answer: B

Correct answer: British failure

The passage introduces them as examples that all prove this sad rule - that British inventions are not exploited. They are British in origin and unsuccessful in the market, which is the whole point of listing them.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Marketing ability

The passage says Japan's strength lies in the ability to organise production and marketing rather than their achievements in original research, and that the British fail because they cannot exploit what they invent. Inventiveness is present on the losing side, which is what rules it out.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The role of marketing efficiency in industrial prosperity

The passage uses Japan and Britain as the two sides of a single argument: invention without exploitation fails, and organisation with marketing succeeds. The comparison is the method; marketing is the point being made through it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Careful

The passage says of men with moral courage that they were very cautious about taking physical risks, and its highest praise is for the man who can face a situation boldly when it is really necessary. Courage here is judgement about when to act, not recklessness, and the passage never connects it with cunning, intelligence or curiosity.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Emotions

The passage defines it as an emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, and sets it against moral courage, which it calls a more reasoning attitude. The two definitions are built on exactly that contrast.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Face a situation boldly

The passage closes with the claim: I have never met a man with moral courage who couldn't, when it was really necessary, face a situation boldly. That is what the passage says moral courage guarantees; the other options promise more than it claims.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Capacity for reasoning

Moral courage is defined as the more reasoning attitude, and the passage says it has known many men with marked physical courage who lacked it. What such men lack is therefore the reasoning side, not their nerve or their balance.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Courage

The passage opens with the claim: faith, hope, charity and all the rest don't become virtues until it takes courage to exercise them. Faith, hope and charity are the virtues being accounted for, so none of them can be the thing that accounts for them.

Answer: B

Correct answer: preventive equipment which is as effective as something already mentioned in the passage

The word other points back to the claws and jaws named in the sentence before, and equally effective measures the new defences against those. So the phrase means defences that work as well as the weapons the caterpillar does not have.