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Reading Comprehension Questions

Multiple choice

The reference to males and females as two 'wheels' of society demonstrates

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.

Indians are conservative by nature. Their blind faith and age old superstition stood against the female education. Now, people have felt the virtue of female education. They do not hesitate to send their daughters to schools. Now in India we find women professors, lady doctors, lady scientists, lady politicians and lady ministers. But a large number of women are still in dark. They should be educated in the interest of our national progress.

  1. their importance in 'running' the society

  2. the need for equality to create 'balanced' society

  3. the role of education in society

  4. the slow pace of economic development
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

As the wheels of a vehicle maintain the balance, balance in the society can be maintained by equal participation of man and woman.

Multiple choice

‘Women are the first teachers of future citizens’ highlights the role of women as

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.

Indians are conservative by nature. Their blind faith and age old superstition stood against the female education. Now, people have felt the virtue of female education. They do not hesitate to send their daughters to schools. Now in India we find women professors, lady doctors, lady scientists, lady politicians and lady ministers. But a large number of women are still in dark. They should be educated in the interest of our national progress.

  1. school teachers

  2. mothers

  3. sisters

  4. spouses
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first teacher of a child, from the very first moment that he is born is his mother.

Multiple choice

The last lines of passage show that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.

Indians are conservative by nature. Their blind faith and age old superstition stood against the female education. Now, people have felt the virtue of female education. They do not hesitate to send their daughters to schools. Now in India we find women professors, lady doctors, lady scientists, lady politicians and lady ministers. But a large number of women are still in dark. They should be educated in the interest of our national progress.

  1. our culture is slowly losing its shine

  2. people are rising to work for uplift of women

  3. much more effort is required in the field of female education

  4. women have now risen above men in various fields
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

“But a large number of women are still in dark. They should be educated in the interest of our national progress.”

Multiple choice

The conservative Indian culture had a negative impact on society because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Men and women are the two wheels of society. If one of the two falls defective, the society cannot make progress. Hence, we need education for the females same as we need it for the males. Female education is highly necessary for the society. Females are the first teachers of the future citizens of the country. If the mothers be ignorant, they cannot take proper care of the children. They cannot infuse good qualities in them. Hence, the very foundation of our people will remain weak. If the females are ignorant, we will lose the services of a powerful part of our society.

Indians are conservative by nature. Their blind faith and age old superstition stood against the female education. Now, people have felt the virtue of female education. They do not hesitate to send their daughters to schools. Now in India we find women professors, lady doctors, lady scientists, lady politicians and lady ministers. But a large number of women are still in dark. They should be educated in the interest of our national progress.

  1. it promoted superstitions and myths

  2. it discriminated against girls and denied them education

  3. it was against modernisation and scientific development

  4. the society could not prosper just on culture
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is said so about the Indians. “Their blind faith and age old superstition stood against the female education.”

Multiple choice

The human sentiment that comes out from the passage is

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. belief in old customs

  2. quest to explore the unknown

  3. love for scenic beauty

  4. exploitation of natural resources
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It has been talked about over and again in the passage.

Multiple choice

People love moments like

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. snowfall and rain

  2. sunrise and sunset

  3. moonless nights

  4. cloudy sky and lightning
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

“People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly”.

Multiple choice

The Earth rotating from west to east leads to

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. shorter days

  2. sequence of day and night

  3. changes in intensity of sun's light

  4. different seasons
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is given in the passage. “Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east”.

Multiple choice

The change in light around us occurs because

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. the sun changes its place

  2. the moon comes in between the sun and the earth

  3. the earth keeps turning

  4. of an unnatural and unexplained phenomenon
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is given that as the position of the sun keeps on changing in the sky, the light around us keeps on changing.

Multiple choice

The change in perception about the occurrence of days and nights shows that

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. we no longer believe in what old people said

  2. old myths and beliefs still hold their importance

  3. scientific research has established facts over old beliefs

  4. man is a slave of technology
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Now everybody has become aware of the actual facts with the development of science and technology.

Multiple choice

Sunrise is a beautiful sight because

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

THE EARTH KEEPS TURNING

Days follow nights and nights follow days because the earth keeps turning from west to east. The light around us keeps on changing slowly through the day, as the sun’s place in sky moves from east to west. People love the moments when the light around us changes suddenly, as that makes everything look so different. When, the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light, we call it a sunrise. A sunrise is a beautiful sight. When at the end of the day the sun goes down, evening falls with the moment of sunset. It is the beginning of night. Since the earth keeps on turning through the night without rest, the sun comes up with another day. However, in the old days, people believed that the earth stood still, while the sun went around the earth bringing day and night.

  1. it marks the beginning of a new day

  2. the rays of the sun fill colours in the clouds

  3. the earth has moved from west to east

  4. the light is neither too sharp nor too dull
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is given that the sun springs up and colours the clouds with its light and it is a beautiful sight.

Multiple choice

The last line of the passage shows that the Native Americans

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

THE FIRST FOOTSTEPS Long, long ago, when the world was colder than you could think, a large part of today’s seawater was still locked in sheets of rugged white ice that covered parts of the continents. The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today. There were stretches of usable land that later went under the oceans. One of these, a fifteen hundred kilometre wide land strip called Beringia, which bridged the Bering Sea and linked America to Asia. Beringia was a chilling treeless land lying knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants. It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans. It was at that time, between 30 000 to 34 000 years ago, that the first groups of brave hunters from Asia, unknowingly crossed over to America following the herds of game. They neither knew nor cared that they had discovered a new continent. They hunted and stayed close to the big animal herds, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down. It would take these Native Americans thousands of years more to move farther south.

  1. were scared to move out of their settlements

  2. are only found in Alaska

  3. explored new lands only in need of new resources

  4. moved south in search of greener pastures
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Since they had ample reserves of food in the place they were living. They need not move from that place.

Multiple choice

The treeless land of Beringia attracted

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

THE FIRST FOOTSTEPS Long, long ago, when the world was colder than you could think, a large part of today’s seawater was still locked in sheets of rugged white ice that covered parts of the continents. The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today. There were stretches of usable land that later went under the oceans. One of these, a fifteen hundred kilometre wide land strip called Beringia, which bridged the Bering Sea and linked America to Asia. Beringia was a chilling treeless land lying knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants. It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans. It was at that time, between 30 000 to 34 000 years ago, that the first groups of brave hunters from Asia, unknowingly crossed over to America following the herds of game. They neither knew nor cared that they had discovered a new continent. They hunted and stayed close to the big animal herds, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down. It would take these Native Americans thousands of years more to move farther south.

  1. small animals and flightless birds

  2. humans in search of fertile land

  3. tourists from Asia to America

  4. hunters in search of plant eating animals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Given in the passage. “It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans”.

Multiple choice

The new group of people settled near Alaska because

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

THE FIRST FOOTSTEPS Long, long ago, when the world was colder than you could think, a large part of today’s seawater was still locked in sheets of rugged white ice that covered parts of the continents. The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today. There were stretches of usable land that later went under the oceans. One of these, a fifteen hundred kilometre wide land strip called Beringia, which bridged the Bering Sea and linked America to Asia. Beringia was a chilling treeless land lying knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants. It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans. It was at that time, between 30 000 to 34 000 years ago, that the first groups of brave hunters from Asia, unknowingly crossed over to America following the herds of game. They neither knew nor cared that they had discovered a new continent. They hunted and stayed close to the big animal herds, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down. It would take these Native Americans thousands of years more to move farther south.

  1. their ancestors had settled there too

  2. they were not brave enough to move farther south

  3. the herds of animals settled their and they followed them blindly

  4. their main interest was in the herds of animals settled there
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Because that's where the herds of animals that they were hunting had settled. “They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down”.

Multiple choice

We know from the information provided in the passage that Beringia is

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

THE FIRST FOOTSTEPS Long, long ago, when the world was colder than you could think, a large part of today’s seawater was still locked in sheets of rugged white ice that covered parts of the continents. The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today. There were stretches of usable land that later went under the oceans. One of these, a fifteen hundred kilometre wide land strip called Beringia, which bridged the Bering Sea and linked America to Asia. Beringia was a chilling treeless land lying knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants. It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans. It was at that time, between 30 000 to 34 000 years ago, that the first groups of brave hunters from Asia, unknowingly crossed over to America following the herds of game. They neither knew nor cared that they had discovered a new continent. They hunted and stayed close to the big animal herds, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down. It would take these Native Americans thousands of years more to move farther south.

  1. an unexplored continent

  2. a man-made bridge between America and Asia over Bering Sea

  3. a fifteen hundred kilometre wide strip of runway in America

  4. a piece of land submerged under the ocean now
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It was a piece of land covered with knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants which is now covered with water.

Multiple choice

From the first lines of the passage it can be assumed that over the years

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

THE FIRST FOOTSTEPS Long, long ago, when the world was colder than you could think, a large part of today’s seawater was still locked in sheets of rugged white ice that covered parts of the continents. The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today. There were stretches of usable land that later went under the oceans. One of these, a fifteen hundred kilometre wide land strip called Beringia, which bridged the Bering Sea and linked America to Asia. Beringia was a chilling treeless land lying knee-deep in lush green grasses and soft vines and plants. It attracted herds of large plant-eating animals along with their predators including early humans. It was at that time, between 30 000 to 34 000 years ago, that the first groups of brave hunters from Asia, unknowingly crossed over to America following the herds of game. They neither knew nor cared that they had discovered a new continent. They hunted and stayed close to the big animal herds, as their ancestors had done for countless generations. They strayed into Alaska across Beringia and settled near the pastures where the herds settled down. It would take these Native Americans thousands of years more to move farther south.

  1. the world today has become much colder than in the previous years

  2. the continents are getting covered by ice

  3. the level of sea water has risen remarkably

  4. the sea level cannot be measured accurately
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is given clearly in the passage. “The sea levels then were hundreds of metres below those today”.