English Reading Comprehension

According to the passage, the rain allures

Directions: Read the passage given carefully and answer the question that follows.

Rain in the countryside attracts the lovers of nature. It is pleasant and helpful. But rain in the city creates a different kind of sight. For some people, the heavy downpour may have a cooling effect, and it has its charm with the roar of thunder and the flash of lightening. On a rainy day, the lanes and the streets look like rivers and the entire city becomes magically converted into Venice. The street bears a deserted look. Occasionally, people try to plod their way. Their clothes are tucked up and they hold the umbrella in one hand and their bag in the other. A sudden gush of wind tilts their umbrella and they get drenched. If a vehicle passes speedily, it splashes muddy water on them. Sometimes, the streets become water-logged and traffic comes to a halt.

Fill blank (iii).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (i).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (vi).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (viii).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (ix).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (ii).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (v).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (x).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (iv).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

Fill blank (vii).

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each blank, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately and answer the question that follows.

The author is likely to agree with all of the following, except

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.
The qualities and defects of French painting are explained less by its historic origin than by the character of the French genius itself. French painting really began in connoisseurship, one may say. It arose in appreciation, that faculty in which the French have always been, and still are, unrivalled. Its syntheses were based on elements already in combination. It originated nothing. It was eclectic at the outset. Compared with the slow and suave evolution of Italian art, in whose earliest dawn its borrowed Byzantine painting served as a stimulus and suggestion to original views of natural material rather than as a model for imitation and modification, the painting that sprang into existence, Minerva-like, in full armor, at Fontainebleau under Francis I, was of the essence of artificiality. It was very much in the position in which American appreciation finds itself to-day. Like our own painters, the French artists of the Renaissance found themselves familiar with masterpieces wholly beyond their power to create, and produced by a foreign people who had enjoyed the incomparable advantage of arriving at their artistic apogee through natural stages of growth, beginning with impulse and culminating in expertness.

The essential peculiarities of Numidia, in turn, are reflected in

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To the east and west, there are wide stretches of woodland, rounded hill-summits, streams and torrents which pour through the valleys and glens. But towards the south the verdure grows sparse; arid mountain-tops appear, crushed down as blunted cones; the sterility of the desert becomes perceptible amid the wealth of vegetation. This full-foliaged land has its harsh and stern localities. The African light, however, softens all that. The deep green of the oaks and pines runs into waves of warm and ever-altering tints which are a caress and a delight for the eye. A man has it thoroughly brought home to him that he is in a land of the sun.
To say the least, it is a country of strongly marked features which affords the strangest contrast with the surrounding districts. This wooded Numidia, with its flowing brooks, its fields where the cattle graze, differs in the highest degree from the Numidia towards Setif – a wide, desolate plain, where the stubble of the wheat-fields, the sandy steppes, roll away in monotonous undulations to the cloudy barrier of Mount Atlas which closes the horizon. And this rough and melancholy plain in its turn offers a striking contrast with the coast region of Boujeiah and Hippo, which is not unlike the Italian Campania in its mellowness and gaiety. Such clear-cut differences between the various parts of the same province doubtlessly explain the essential peculiarities of the Numidian character. The bishop Augustine, who carried his pastoral cross from one end to the other of this country, and was its acting and thinking soul, may perhaps have owed to it the contrasts and many-sidedness of his own rich nature.