Reading Comprehension Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: The employees must change their outlook towards work

The passage opens with what needs to be set right is our approach to work, which states the thesis outright, and everything after it is evidence for that need. The option calling the outlook justified reverses it, and the employer-employee relationship is not the subject.

Answer: A

Correct answer: History

The closing sentence says the remedy is to know the history… of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character. History is presented as the cause; present character is the result, and politics one of the conditions history acted through.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Is more today than ever before

The opening words are at this stage of civilisation… it is essential, as never before. As never before is decisive: the need is not merely present but greater now than at any earlier time, because nations are in close and vital contact.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Socio-political conditions

The passage names the cause explicitly: the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character. Mentality is a parallel result rather than a cause, and gross ignorance is the problem the passage sets out to cure.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Themselves

The passage says it is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to react as they do - that is, as the English themselves react. Us would be the wrong person for a sentence written about them in the third person.

Answer: C

Correct answer: they wish to save their vigour for other things

The passage says males are reticent about expending their energy in hunting, and then explains what the saved energy is for: slothfulness may have survival value, because the males guard the cubs while the lionesses hunt. So the laziness is purposeful, which rules out the option that simply calls them lazy.

Answer: D

Correct answer: more from hyenas than from other animals

The passage says the males protect the cubs particularly from hyenas. Particularly singles hyenas out without excluding other predators, which is why from hyenas only overstates it and as much as from other enemies understates it.

Answer: C

Correct answer: With their cubs and male partners

The passage describes the whole pride on the move: the lionesses in front, the cubs lagging playfully behind, and the males bringing up the rear. All three groups travel together, even though only the lionesses do the killing.

Answer: B

Correct answer: cautious

The lionesses are described as tensely scanning ahead - alert to what lies in front of them, which is caution. Playful describes the cubs and sluggish the males, and serious misses the watchfulness that scanning conveys.

Answer: B

Correct answer: it simply means that the facts have not been correctly stated by law

The passage draws the distinction sharply: a law of nature is a statement of facts, not a command. So when matter appears to break one, nothing has been disobeyed - the statement was simply wrong. The option about a superior being answers a different question, namely why there is no law giver at all.