Reading Comprehension

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Was late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school, because I didn’t. I earned early on, though, that it’s essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you’re starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce. Once, my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing—they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn’t help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that’s what was needed—and we needed to set ourselves apart. In the first script Jerry and I wrote, a schoolgirl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy-writing team.

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Was late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school, because I didn’t. I earned early on, though, that it’s essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you’re starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce. Once, my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing—they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn’t help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that’s what was needed—and we needed to set ourselves apart. In the first script Jerry and I wrote, a schoolgirl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy-writing team.

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Was late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school, because I didn’t. I earned early on, though, that it’s essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you’re starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce. Once, my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing—they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn’t help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that’s what was needed—and we needed to set ourselves apart. In the first script Jerry and I wrote, a schoolgirl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy-writing team.

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Was late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school, because I didn’t. I earned early on, though, that it’s essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you’re starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce. Once, my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing—they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn’t help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that’s what was needed—and we needed to set ourselves apart. In the first script Jerry and I wrote, a schoolgirl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy-writing team.

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Wind power has obvious advantages—it is nonpolluting, causes no ecological imbalance, requires no throughput fuel and has extremely low gestation period. After almost a decade of sporadic growth, wind energy finally seems to be stepping out from shadows of alternative technology into the commercial mainstream, worldwide. Even though, India now has an installed base of just over 1,600 MW. This is nothing compared to countries such as Germany, which meets around 20 per cent of its energy requirements from wind energy. Wind power offers long-term price stability too. Not only are generation costs of such projects low, the capital expenditure is comparable to fossil fuel-based stations. Wind power plants have low operating and maintenance costs. Long-term economics work out to be quite favourable for the wind-energy. In fact, it is being seen as a solution to sustainable development. By the end of 2001, the installed wind-power was almost 25,000 MW.

Direction: In this Section you have a passage. After the passage you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read Passage, and answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

PASSAGE: A group of prospective jurors was asked by the judge whether any of them felt they had ever been treated unfairly by an officer of the law. “I once got a ticket for running a stop sign”, Caroline replied, ”even though I definitely came to a complete stop.” “Did you pay the fine?” the judge questioned. “Yes”. “If you thought you were innocent”, the judge went on, “why didn’t you contest it?” “Your Honour”, she replied, “there have been so many times I didn’t get a ticket for running a stop sign that I figured this evened things out a little.”

Direction: In this Section you have a passage. After the passage you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read Passage, and answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

PASSAGE: A group of prospective jurors was asked by the judge whether any of them felt they had ever been treated unfairly by an officer of the law. “I once got a ticket for running a stop sign”, Caroline replied, ”even though I definitely came to a complete stop.” “Did you pay the fine?” the judge questioned. “Yes”. “If you thought you were innocent”, the judge went on, “why didn’t you contest it?” “Your Honour”, she replied, “there have been so many times I didn’t get a ticket for running a stop sign that I figured this evened things out a little.”

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions.

PASSAGE: Wind power has obvious advantages—it is nonpolluting, causes no ecological imbalance, requires no throughput fuel and has extremely low gestation period. After almost a decade of sporadic growth, wind energy finally seems to be stepping out from shadows of alternative technology into the commercial mainstream, worldwide. Even though, India now has an installed base of just over 1,600 MW. This is nothing compared to countries such as Germany, which meets around 20 per cent of its energy requirements from wind energy. Wind power offers long-term price stability too. Not only are generation costs of such projects low, the capital expenditure is comparable to fossil fuel-based stations. Wind power plants have low operating and maintenance costs. Long-term economics work out to be quite favourable for the wind-energy. In fact, it is being seen as a solution to sustainable development. By the end of 2001, the installed wind-power was almost 25,000 MW.

Direction: In this Section you have a passage. After the passage you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read Passage, and answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

PASSAGE: A group of prospective jurors was asked by the judge whether any of them felt they had ever been treated unfairly by an officer of the law. “I once got a ticket for running a stop sign”, Caroline replied, ”even though I definitely came to a complete stop.” “Did you pay the fine?” the judge questioned. “Yes”. “If you thought you were innocent”, the judge went on, “why didn’t you contest it?” “Your Honour”, she replied, “there have been so many times I didn’t get a ticket for running a stop sign that I figured this evened things out a little.”