Comprehensions of Reading Passages -English- Mock Test 2

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1Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

Until a hundred years ago as humans, we had a simple, uncomplicated biological connect. It was a straightforward equation: we drew roughly 3, 000 calories each of energy out of the Earth for our food and life’s sustenance. Today that number per capita has grown to 1, 00, 000 calories. We still need only 3, 000 calories each to nourish life itself. All the rest of this energy is what we extract from the Earth for everything else besides keeping ourselves alive. In some countries, like the US; this per capita number runs at over 2, 00, 000 calories! Some of us are concerned about this. We fret over what we could and should really be doing to soften this abuse of resources. Little things fox us in the welter of things that we get to read. What is sustainable development? How can it be started in our homes? Beyond the ceremonial planting of green arid getting people to run marathons of various lengths in support of the environment, is there- more that we can add to the abstract value of “sustainability”? What are the little things we can do in our day-to-day lives, to reduce demand for things that people make and market? Of course, we know that it helps to avoid a plastic bag when you can use a newspaper bag, or a brown bag, or even a jute bag which you can use for many more years, unlike a plastic bag which you throw away in less than a week or after a few uses. However, there’s actually quite a bit more than you and I can do without compromise on comfort, with very little as cost incurred, with financial savings that you can gain on energy and water use, and with solutions that are very feasible and within your reach. It is possible to understand our ecological footprint and its disastrous consequences, not merely in terms of our own behaviour as consumers, but really in terms of the impact on the environment we make.

Question 1: What is the primary concern of the passage?

A) There is a need to save energy, especially in our future.

B) All of us should not only plant trees but also run the marathon.

C) Use of plastic bags should be completely banned.

D We need to respect the Earth and consume less of its calories.

Question 2: Why does the author ask his audience to use a jute bag?

A) Jute bags look more trendy and stylish.

B It is the need of the hour, to save energy, to save our ecosystem.

C) Using jute bags helps in consuming only 3, 000 calories from the Earth.

D They are more easily available.

Question 3: Which one of the following statements cannot be inferred from the passage?

A) There are many little things we can do to save our Earth.

B) Only running marathons of various lengths do not help.

C) We do not depend on the Earth for our food and life sustenance.

D A lot many years before, our association with the Nature was quite simple.

Question 4: A suitable title for the passage could be

A) Lets Shift to Jute!

B) How to Consume Few Calories?

C) Save Energy, Save the Earth!

D) The Earth Heading for a Disaster.

2 Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

One of the most famous works of art in the world is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Nearly everyone who goes to see the original will already be familiar with it from reproductions, but they accept that fine art is more rewardingly viewed in its original form. However, if the Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writer’s actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction. This might be explained by the fact that the novel has evolved precisely because of technological developments that made it possible to print out huge numbers of texts, whereas oil paintings have always been produced as unique objects. In addition, it could be argued that the practice of interpreting or ‘reading’ each medium follows different conventions. With novels, the reader attends mainly to the meaning of words rather than the way they are printed on the page, whereas the ‘reader’ of a painting must attend just as closely to the material form of marks and shapes in the picture as to any ideas they may signify.

Question 1: According to the passage, Monalisa is

A) Da Vinci’s masterpiece

B) One of the famous works of art

C) Just another painting

D The only work on art

Question 2: Why do people want to view art in its original form?

A) They can appreciate art better in its original form.

B They are tired of viewing duplicates

C) both A & B

D None of the above

Question 3: According to the passage, what is the difference between a novel and a painting?

A) No difference

B) Novels are unique.

C) Paintings are unique objects.

D) None of the above

Question 4: What is the difference between reading a novel and a painting?

A) No difference.

B) In a novel, they have to carefully observe the way they are printed and in a painting it is just reading the meaning.

C) In a painting, they have to carefully observe the way they are printed and in a novel it is just reading the meaning.

D) None of the above

3 Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

The use of hot-air balloons can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history (220-280 AD). Zhuge Liang used these early incarnations, known as Kongming lanterns, as military signals. The first manned flight on record took place in France on October 15th, 1783. In a balloon constructed by Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, a Frenchman named Pilatre de Rozier was elevated eighty feet off the ground. Modern hot-air balloons, with their capacity to ascend or descend and occasionally ‘steer’ at the pilot’s will, were first developed by Ed Yost in the 1950s. The Bristol Belle is generally regarded as the first modern hot-air balloon and had its inaugural flight in 1967. Since then, balloon technology has become extremely sophisticated. Some hot-air balloons have reached altitudes of 21,000 metres, travelled over 7,500 kilometres, and reached speeds of up to 400 kilometres per hour.

Question 1: According to the passage, In which era did the hot-air balloons come into use?

A) Six dynasties (220-589 AD)

B) Three kingdoms era (220-280 AD)

C) Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC)

D) Imperial China (221 BC – 1912 AD)

Question 2: Who used the early incarnation of the hot-air balloons?

A) Liu Bei

B Cao Cao

C) Sima Yi

D) Zhuge Liang

Question 3: When did the first manned hot air balloon come into use?

A) October 15,1783

B) September 19, 1783

C) November 21, 1783

D) August 18, 1783

Question 4: Who developed the Modern Day Hot-air Balloons?

A) Zhuge Liang

B) Pilatre de Rozier

C) Ed Yost

D) Joseph-Micheal Montgolfier

Question 5: What was the name given to the first modern hot air balloon?

A) Roziere Balloons

B) Aerostat Reveillon

C) Vijayapat Singhania

D) Bristol Belle

4 Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother Alfred Daniel Williams King. Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped ninth and twelfth grades and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school. From the time that Martin was born, he knew that black people and white people had different rights in certain parts of America.

Question 1: When and where was Martin Luther King born?

A) April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee

B) January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia

C) November 21, 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

D March 23, 1925, Ulm, Germany

Question 2: How many siblings did Martin Luther King have?

A) Three siblings

B) One sibling

C) Two siblings

D) None of the above

Question 3: Which school did Martin Luther King attend?

A) Booker T. Washington High School

B) The Galloway School

C) Carver High school

D Warren T. Jackson School

Question 4: Which grades did Martin Luther king skip to enter college?

A) 6th & 11the grade

B) 10th & 7th grade

C) 9th & 12th grade

D) 8th and 12th grade

Question 5: What did Martin Luther King know from the beginning of his birth?

A) Different rights for black & white people in America

B) Black people deprived of education rights in America

C) No rights for black people to vote in America

D) Couldn’t understand why white people were treated better than the black people

5 Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

As, over the last four hundred years, tea-leaves became available throughout much of Asia and Europe, the ways in which tea was drunk changed. The Chinese considered the quality of the leaves and the ways in which they were cured are essential. People in other cultures added new ingredients besides tea-leaves and hot water. They drank tea with milk, sugar, spices like cinnamon and cardamom, and herbs such as mint or sage. The variations are endless. For example, in Western Sudan, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, sesame oil is added to milky tea on cold mornings. In England, tea, unlike coffee, acquired a reputation as a therapeutic drink that promoted health. Indeed, in European and Arab countries as well as in Persia and Russia, tea was praised for its restorative and health-giving properties. One Dutch physician, Cornelius Blankaart, advised that to maintain health, a minimum of eight to ten cups a day should be drunk and that up to 50 to 100 daily cups could be consumed safely.

Question 1: According to the passage, in which countries did the tea leaves become available over the last 400 years?

A) Russia & USA

B) England & France

C) Asia & Europe

D) Persia & Russia

Question 2: What were the other ingredients added while making the tea?

A) Sugar & Milk

B) Herbs (Mint & Sage)

C) Spices (Cinnamon & Cardamom)

D All of the above

Question 3: In which place was sesame oil added to milky tea?

A) On the edge of the Sahara Desert, Western Sudan

B) Japanese and Middle Eastern countries

C) Southern Arab countries

D) None of the above

Question 4: Which countries have praised tea for its restorative and health-giving properties?

A) Arab & Europe

B) Persia & Russia

C) Both A & B

D) England & France

Question 5: Which physician advised to consume eight to ten cups of tea a day?

A) Al-zahrawi

B) Ibn Sina

C) Sushruta

D) Cornelius Blankaart

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