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Reading Comprehension Questions

Multiple choice

According to the author what will bring empowerment to the people who are economically as well as socially ineffective?

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

Most social evils are an outcome or creation of poverty and the misery that comes with being poor in a country like India, at the same time it also needs to be borne in mind that the judiciary no matter however committed it may be towards uplifting the cause of the poor is ultimately bound by procedural formalities which do not take into account the misery or problems of the masses. Therefore the sufferings being so many it is not possible for the legal system to remove even a few of such problems. In keeping with the same view it can be asserted that poverty is a creation of unjust institutions and unjust society. Therefore in a country like India if you are poor you are ineffective socially as well as economically the only way that you can then be empowered is through radical revamping of the socio-economic structure. Such a radical change can only be brought about in the form of a revolution that the legal service programme only is capable of gearing. Thus the legal aid programme should be aimed at revamping the socio-economic structure by way of removing the socially unjust institutions and creating a new order based upon the ethos of human liberty, equality and dignity of mankind.
It can be said that though the system had been flagged off under the term "We the people of India" it has no longer continued in the same direction as want of procedural formalities has taken precedence over the people at the cost of which justice often suffered casualties. It must be recognised that the courts of law have merely become instruments for law’s sake and are not administering justice as such. However, the blame for the attitude of the judiciary can be placed on the colonial hangover of namely all institutional systems in the country. However, there should be faith in the Gandhian system which professed the resolution of disputes at the grass root level through village Panchayat’s.
A national legal service authority that is accountable to the parliament but protected from official control is recommended. Simplification of the legal procedure and an emphasis on conciliated settlement outside court has to be the policy of legal aid schemes. There should be a three-fold test laid down for determining eligibility: Means test - to determine people entitled to legal aid. Prima facie test - to determine whether there was a prima facie case to give legal aid or not. Reasonableness test - to see whether the defence sought by a person is ethical and moral.
In criminal proceedings guaranteeing legal aid to habitual offenders and in cases, which essentially involve private claims is not recommended. Regular arrangement for aid and advice to the under trials should to be provided. A liberalized bail policy which should not to be dependent on financial consideration should be set up. Legal services should be extended to investigation as well as post conviction stage. Legal services should also include rehabilitative services. In criminal legal aid, salaried lawyers are recommended. There should also be encouragement for payment of compensation to victims in criminal cases. Family courts should be established for women and children with women judges, this is specially required in slum areas and rural villages. Public defence council should be appointed in children’s court.
In backward areas, legal advice bureau should be established in each development block. The involvement of law students in legal aid schemes particularly for preventive legal services is recommended. Public law service should be an alternative available as against the private bar and legal services. The authority should fix the fees payable to the lawyer.

  1. The judiciary

  2. The Constitution of India

  3. The society

  4. The legal aid programs

  5. The village Panchayats
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The second last line of the first paragraph clearly states this. Such a radical change can only be brought about in the form of a revolution that the legal service programme only is capable of gearing. Thus, this is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

Evergreen revolution is possible only after controlling the rate of growth of population of a developing country.

Directions: The given passage is followed by several possible inferences which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth of falsity. Mark answer as

1. If the inference is ˜definitely true", i.e. it properly follows from the statement of facts given.
2. If the inference is ˜probably true" though not ˜definitely true" in the light of the facts given.
3. If the data are inadequate, i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.
4. If the inference is ˜probably false", though not ˜definitely false" in the light of the facts given.
5. If the inference is ˜definitely false", i.e. it cannot possibly be drawn from the facts given for it contradicts the given facts.

There is a clear link between degraded forests and poverty. It is estimated that one billion of the world's poorest people in about 30 heavily deforested countries would be alleviated from poverty if they are given government support for managing neighbouring public forest land and sharing benefits within their communities.

The forests face even shakier future with the global population expected to grow by 50 per cent in the next 50 years. To accommodate a growing population's need of more land for food production we should be making better use of the degraded land through ˜Evergreen Revolution".

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

  5. 5
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

It is not in the passage and is exactly contradicting the passage. 

Multiple choice

A new queen is created by

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive. Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. The queen's job is simple - she lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.

  1. selecting the healthiest of the bees

  2. the dying queen

  3. feeding a worker bee the royal jelly

  4. the oldest bees in the hive

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly."

Multiple choice

Who safeguards the shelter of bees?

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive. Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. The queen's job is simple - she lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.

  1. Queen

  2. Male honeybees

  3. Worker honeybees

  4. All of these

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is written in the 2nd line “They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive.” 'They' in the sentence refers to worker honeybees.

Multiple choice

According to the passage, which one of the options is not true about the honey bees?

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive. Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. The queen's job is simple - she lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.

  1. They live in groups.

  2. They love to socialize.

  3. They are very quarrelsome.

  4. They store honey to eat in winters.

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option 3 is the right answer because it is nowhere indicated in the passage that they are quarrelsome.

Multiple choice

What was the top speed of the car built by Nicolas - Joseph Cugnot?

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

People had been thinking about cars since the Renaissance age. An Italian named Guido da Vigevano recorded plans for a wind-propelled vehicle in 1335; but, the first real car was built in 1769 by a French inventor named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. The "car" was actually a three-wheeled tractor that could only go 2 miles per hour, which is slower than the regular walking speed of a person! Because of this, inventors like Karl Benz got to work. Benz was a German inventor who came up with the first patent for a gasoline - powered motorcar in 1886, and he began selling his cars in 1888. It was another German who created the four-stroke engine we see in most cars. Nikolaus Otto invented his engine in 1876, and because it was the first practical gas-powered engine, it made a huge impact on the way cars worked.

  1. Walking speed of a human

  2. 2 miles per hour

  3. 66 miles

  4. 3 miles

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In line 4, it's written “that could only go 2 miles per hour,” which means the speed was 2 miles per hour.

Multiple choice

Who got the exclusive official right for petrol-run cars?

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

People had been thinking about cars since the Renaissance age. An Italian named Guido da Vigevano recorded plans for a wind-propelled vehicle in 1335; but, the first real car was built in 1769 by a French inventor named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. The "car" was actually a three-wheeled tractor that could only go 2 miles per hour, which is slower than the regular walking speed of a person! Because of this, inventors like Karl Benz got to work. Benz was a German inventor who came up with the first patent for a gasoline - powered motorcar in 1886, and he began selling his cars in 1888. It was another German who created the four-stroke engine we see in most cars. Nikolaus Otto invented his engine in 1876, and because it was the first practical gas-powered engine, it made a huge impact on the way cars worked.

  1. Guido da Vigevano

  2. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

  3. Karl Benz

  4. Nikolaus Otto

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

“Benz was a German inventor who came up with the first patent for a gasoline - powered motorcar in 1886”. Patent means government’s grant to manufacture and sell an invention. So, option 3 is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

According to the passage, which invention influenced the working of cars?

Directions: Read the given passage and answer the following question:

People had been thinking about cars since the Renaissance age. An Italian named Guido da Vigevano recorded plans for a wind-propelled vehicle in 1335; but, the first real car was built in 1769 by a French inventor named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. The "car" was actually a three-wheeled tractor that could only go 2 miles per hour, which is slower than the regular walking speed of a person! Because of this, inventors like Karl Benz got to work. Benz was a German inventor who came up with the first patent for a gasoline - powered motorcar in 1886, and he began selling his cars in 1888. It was another German who created the four-stroke engine we see in most cars. Nikolaus Otto invented his engine in 1876, and because it was the first practical gas-powered engine, it made a huge impact on the way cars worked.

  1. Electric - powered motorcar

  2. Gas - powered engine

  3. New showrooms for selling cars

  4. Invention of fast racing cars

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

“It was the first practical gas-powered engine, it made a huge impact on the way cars worked”. Hence, option 2 is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

In all probability, the impact of a nuclear exchange

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question:

The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialised states. Current developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the Rapid Deployment Forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean, and the tensions in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  1. would be far reaching

  2. would pose a great threat to the industrialised nations

  3. would be strictly confined to the vicinity where it occurs

  4. would result in the total wipe-out of nuclear powers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The passage explicitly states that nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an 'unavoidable global aftermath' and that it's 'improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of industrialised states.' It further explains that nuclear disaster would spread to developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, confirming its far-reaching impact.

Multiple choice

Aggressive forces have intentions to

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question:

The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialised states. Current developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the Rapid Deployment Forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean, and the tensions in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  1. seize the Middle Eastern oilfields

  2. deploy nuclear missiles across the world

  3. carry on with their nuclear programmes

  4. free the Indian Ocean from the impact of nuclear warfare
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The passage specifically mentions 'the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields' as one of the current dangerous developments. This is explicitly stated as an intention of aggressive forces. The other options are either not mentioned as intentions or are misinterpreted from the passage.

Multiple choice

The term 'aftermath' as used in the passage means

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question:

The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialised states. Current developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the Rapid Deployment Forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean, and the tensions in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  1. consequences

  2. inconvenience

  3. disaster

  4. deployment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In the passage, 'aftermath' refers to the 'unavoidable global' consequences that would follow a nuclear exchange. The context makes it clear that this means catastrophic, worldwide consequences that would threaten human survival. 'Consequences' best captures this meaning of what follows and results from such an event.

Multiple choice

Developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question:

The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialised states. Current developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the Rapid Deployment Forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean, and the tensions in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  1. would be free from the impact of a future nuclear disaster

  2. would be carrying out future nuclear explosions

  3. are preparing for seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields

  4. could suffer the impact of future nuclear disasters
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The passage states that nuclear disaster 'would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America' through various military developments. This directly supports option D - that developing countries could suffer the impact of future nuclear disasters, not that they would be free from it (A) or responsible for it (B, C).

Multiple choice

A nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the given question:

The evidence given so far demonstrates that a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere would have an unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere. It is also very improbable that a nuclear exchange would be confined exclusively to the vicinity of the industrialised states. Current developments indicate that a nuclear disaster would be carried into the territories of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These developments include the preparations being made by aggressive forces for the armed seizure of the Middle Eastern oilfields, the nuclear missile deployment in the south of Western Europe, the establishment of military bases for the Rapid Deployment Forces in North Africa and the Indian Ocean, and the tensions in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean.

  1. have a few unavoidable consequences

  2. pose a great threat to the very existence of mankind

  3. make human existence impossible in that region

  4. result in widespread demonstrations
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The passage explicitly states that nuclear exchange would have 'unavoidable global aftermath making the continued existence of mankind impossible anywhere.' This clearly supports option B - it would pose a great threat to the very existence of mankind globally, not just regionally (C) or cause minor consequences (A). Option D about demonstrations is unrelated.

Multiple choice

In the equation 2m + k = n, what is the value of m?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the given question.

Let there be four colours of toys in a shop, i.e. red, green, blue and yellow. There are 101 toys of red colour. The number of blue toys is 4 less than the number of green toys. The number of yellow toys is 3 more than the number of red toys and the number of green toys is 10 less than the number yellow toys. Now, let k, l, m and n be the numbers of red, blue, yellow and green toys, respectively.

  1. 2

  2. 2/7

  3. -7/2

  4. 7/2

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

No. of red toys = 101 = k No. of yellow toys = 101 + 3 = 104 = m No. of green toys = 104 - 10 = 94 = n No. of blue toys = 94 - 4 = 90 = l Therefore, 2m + 101 = 94 2m = 7 m = 7/2