English Reading Comprehension

Fill in the blank (20).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (10).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (1).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (15).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Who/What first breaks the silence of the station?

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

While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene, I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment, a sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return-half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easygoing gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings. A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence.

What does the author suggest by the word 'placid'?

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

While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene, I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment, a sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return-half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easygoing gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings. A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence.

The central idea of the passage is

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

While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene, I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment, a sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return-half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easygoing gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings. A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Exactly how the theatre came into being is not known. B. Yet it is impossible to state with certainty what the theatre was like. C. Legend attributes the invention of the dithyramb, the lyrical ancestor of tragedy, to the poet Arion of Lesbos in the 7^th or 6^th century BCE. D. But, it is indisputable that the traditions born in ancient Athens have dominated Western theatre and the theories of Western drama up to the present. E. It was obscure even a few years before the appearance of Aeschylus’s earliest extant play, Persians (472 BCE).
2. But it was not until the creation of the Great Dionysia in Athens in 534 that tragic drama established itself.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. When Plato died about 348, his nephew Speusippus became the head of the Academy and Aristotle left Athens. B. Aristotle helped Hermias to negotiate an alliance with Macedonia. C. Aristotle became a close friend of Hermias and eventually married his ward Pythias. D. He migrated to Assus where Hermias, a graduate of Plato’s Academy, was the ruler. E. This pact angered the Persian king, who had Hermias treacherously arrested and put to death about 341.
2. Aristotle saluted Hermias’s memory in, "Ode to Virtue”, his only surviving poem.

Fill in the blank (12).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.

Fill in the blank (18).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.

Fill in the blank (13).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.

Fill in the blank (6).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.

Fill in the blank (10).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.

Fill in the blank (16).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks. 

Ten-year-old ___(1)___ Jane Eyre lives unhappily with __(2)___ wealthy relatives, the Reed family, at Gateshead. Resentful of the late Mr. Reed’s ___(3)___ for her, Jane’s aunt and cousins take ___(4)___ opportunity to neglect and ___(5)__ her as a reminder of her inferior status. Jane’s only salvation __(6)__ her daily humiliations is Bessie, the kindly servant ___(7)__ tells her stories and sings her songs. One day, Jane ___(8)__ her bullying cousin, John, and Mrs. Reed punishes her __(9)__ imprisoning her in the “red-room,” the room in which her uncle __(10)__. Convinced that she sees her uncle’s ghost, Jane __(11)__. __(12)__ she awakes, Jane is being cared for, by the apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, who __(13)__ that she be sent __(14)__ to school. Mrs. Reed is __(15)__ to be rid of her troublesome charge and immediately sends Jane to __(16)__ Lowood School, an institution fifty miles from Gateshead.
Jane soon discovers __(17)__ life at the Lowood School is bleak, particularly __(18)__ of the influence of the hypocritical headmaster,Mr. Brocklehurst, __(19)__ cruelty and evangelical self-righteousness results in __(20)__ conditions, inedible meals, and frequent punishments for the students.