English Reading Comprehension

What experience had the girl had?

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Aman tripped while he was trying to catch a bus. He was on the floor. The bus left without him. "Are you alright?" a girl asked. He was holding his arm. "I think I broke my arm," he said to the girl. The girl dialled 102. "Help is on the way," the girl said. She helped him up. He wondered why he fell. He looked down and saw his laces were untied. He had forgotten to tie his laces. He started to cry. His arm was in terrible pain. "The ambulance is coming soon," the girl said. She felt bad for the boy. She knew how much it would have hurt because she had had a similar experience a few months ago.

What did the girl do?

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Aman tripped while he was trying to catch a bus. He was on the floor. The bus left without him. "Are you alright?" a girl asked. He was holding his arm. "I think I broke my arm," he said to the girl. The girl dialled 102. "Help is on the way," the girl said. She helped him up. He wondered why he fell. He looked down and saw his laces were untied. He had forgotten to tie his laces. He started to cry. His arm was in terrible pain. "The ambulance is coming soon," the girl said. She felt bad for the boy. She knew how much it would have hurt because she had had a similar experience a few months ago.

What does ‘boast’ mean?

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Pablo Picasso once boasted, “Give me a museum and I'll fill it.” And the artist's words have proved true, as a museum filled with his work re-opened in Paris. But the renovation of this exhibition has certainly not been a painter's dream with repeated delays leaving fans waiting five years to see one of the world's largest collections of this influential artist's work.

What does ‘warmth’ mean in the phrase, ‘warmth of the sun on his bare feet’?

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Inderjeet sat leaning against a rock, his turban was over his eyes and the warmth of the sun on his bare feet. His feet told him where he was. They knew the feel of the sand and the stones, and the different kinds of grass. To his right a bird twittered. It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying. He used to dream of flying with the birds but he never told this to anyone except his brother Deepak and his grandfather. They never laughed at him for his fancies because he was blind.

What does, ‘His feet told him where he was’ mean?

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Inderjeet sat leaning against a rock, his turban was over his eyes and the warmth of the sun on his bare feet. His feet told him where he was. They knew the feel of the sand and the stones, and the different kinds of grass. To his right a bird twittered. It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying. He used to dream of flying with the birds but he never told this to anyone except his brother Deepak and his grandfather. They never laughed at him for his fancies because he was blind.

What did Inderjeet tell his brother and his grandfather?

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Inderjeet sat leaning against a rock, his turban was over his eyes and the warmth of the sun on his bare feet. His feet told him where he was. They knew the feel of the sand and the stones, and the different kinds of grass. To his right a bird twittered. It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying. He used to dream of flying with the birds but he never told this to anyone except his brother Deepak and his grandfather. They never laughed at him for his fancies because he was blind.

What does, ‘It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying’ mean?

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Inderjeet sat leaning against a rock, his turban was over his eyes and the warmth of the sun on his bare feet. His feet told him where he was. They knew the feel of the sand and the stones, and the different kinds of grass. To his right a bird twittered. It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying. He used to dream of flying with the birds but he never told this to anyone except his brother Deepak and his grandfather. They never laughed at him for his fancies because he was blind.

Which is an example of fancy?

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Inderjeet sat leaning against a rock, his turban was over his eyes and the warmth of the sun on his bare feet. His feet told him where he was. They knew the feel of the sand and the stones, and the different kinds of grass. To his right a bird twittered. It seemed to Inderjeet that he knew what it was saying. He used to dream of flying with the birds but he never told this to anyone except his brother Deepak and his grandfather. They never laughed at him for his fancies because he was blind.

Why did he lock himself in the room?

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The day of the maths test was next Monday. Jim had three days to study. He did not like maths. It was his hardest subject. He had to study in order to pass. He locked himself in his room. He turned off his phone and computer to avoid distractions. But, he could not solve a maths problem. He needed help. He had to turn on the phone and ask his friend for help. His friend agreed and came over. His friend helped him study for three hours. He took the test. He passed the test. Studying had paid off.

Why did he turn on the phone?

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The day of the maths test was next Monday. Jim had three days to study. He did not like maths. It was his hardest subject. He had to study in order to pass. He locked himself in his room. He turned off his phone and computer to avoid distractions. But, he could not solve a maths problem. He needed help. He had to turn on the phone and ask his friend for help. His friend agreed and came over. His friend helped him study for three hours. He took the test. He passed the test. Studying had paid off.

Why did Jim not like maths?

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The day of the maths test was next Monday. Jim had three days to study. He did not like maths. It was his hardest subject. He had to study in order to pass. He locked himself in his room. He turned off his phone and computer to avoid distractions. But, he could not solve a maths problem. He needed help. He had to turn on the phone and ask his friend for help. His friend agreed and came over. His friend helped him study for three hours. He took the test. He passed the test. Studying had paid off.

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Would you believe that the first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman? His name was Laurent Clerc. He became a friend of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and together they founded America's first school for the deaf. At the age of 12, Laurent entered the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris where he excelled in his studies. After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher. He was a dedicated teacher; and consequently, was promoted to teach the highest class. Meanwhile, in America, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was studying to be a minister when he met a young deaf girl, Alice Cogswell. He was upset to learn that there were no schools for the deaf in America. He was very concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for the deaf. Therefore, in 1815, Gallaudet sailed to London, England to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people. However, he was unable to get help and he became frustrated. While he was there, he met a French educator of the deaf who invited him to go to Paris to spend three months learning at the Royal Institution for the Deaf, the school where Laurent Clerc was teaching. Gallaudet accepted the offer, and went to the Royal Institution for the Deaf, where Clerc became his Sign Language teacher. At the school, Clerc led a busy life. He taught signs to Principal Gallaudet; he taught the pupils; and he taught hearing men who came to the school to study deaf education. At that time, the state would only pay for each student to stay at the school for five years. Therefore, Clerc had to teach his pupils as much as he could as quickly as possible.

The main idea of this passage could best be stated as

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It is truly amazing, what beavers do. They build dams to provide reservoirs of water in which to build their lodges, another amazing feat. Furthermore, they spend their time during the warmer months preparing for the colder months by cutting branches of poplar and burying them in the bottom of the ponds they create to provide them food for the winter. Obviously all this proves the beavers actions are for a purpose. But the purpose is not the beaver's. The beaver has no idea why he does what he does. He does it only because his instinct drives him to do it, and he enjoys doing it. The seemingly marvelous planning of the beaver in preparing for the winter is all a projection of what it would be if we did the same thing, but the beaver has no future purpose at all in what he does. In spite of all the provision the beaver makes for the future cold months, if the pond or brook where he has built his lodge freezes to the bottom, and he is unable to reach the provisions in the bottom of the pond, the beaver will die of starvation. The beaver will do this even if there are plenty of poplar branches available to him elsewhere.

Which of the following is true about the beaver's preparedness or otherwise for winter?

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The message in the form of numerical data came to the Inca on pieces of string called quipus. The quipu only records numbers (as knots arranged like our decimal system) and I would dearly like to say, as a mathematician, that numbers are as informative and human a symbolism as words; but they are not. The numbers that described the life of a man in Peru were collected on a kind of punched card in reverse, a Braille computer card laid out as a knotted piece of string. When he married, the piece of string was moved to another place in the kinship bundle. Everything that was stored in the Inca's armies, granaries and warehouses was noted on these quipus. The fact is that Peru was already the dreaded metropolis of the future, the memory stone in which an empire lists the acts of every citizen, sustains him, assigns him his labors, and puts it all down impersonally as number.

What is the theme of the passage?

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When you take a fish out of the ocean and throw it on the bank – the misery and the suffering and the torture, and the hankering and the effort to reach back to the ocean is because that is where the fish belongs. Any suffering is simply indicative that you are not in communion with existence that the fish is not in the ocean. When a dewdrop slips from a lotus leaf into the ocean, it does not find that it is part of the ocean, it finds it is the ocean. And to find it is the ultimate goal, the ultimate realisation. There is nothing beyond it. I don’t want anybody to stand between an individual and existence. You are here, every individual is here, and the whole existence is available.

What is the theme of the passage?