Reading Comprehension - English Questions and Answers

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Birju Maharaj, the living legend; choreographer Kumudini Lakhia, who ushered in an era of innovations in Kathak, Chitresh Das, a pioneer emigrant who settled in the Bay area 30 years ago and blazed a trail, firmly establishing Kathak among American dancers and the Indian diaspora; Anjani Ambegaonkar, another Jaipur gharana exponent, winner of the National Endowment Award for her outstanding contribution to the young exponents both from India and America ___ the conference had young scholars and critics and also senior writers and performers. Young Archana Joglekar, a Kathak dancer from Mumbai, who migrated to Princeton a few years ago said: 'I could not believe that this can happen in the US where Indian immigrants have come for better economic opportunities and incidentally have brought along with them classical dance tradition to retain their cultural Indian identity.

Question-4 : Immigrants are those-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe, but at last got the tent up and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind and inside it was not too cold for us to take off our gloves. At night most climbers take off their boots, but I preferred to keep them on. Hillary on the other hand, took his off and led them next to his sleeping bag.

Question-1 : In this passage, 'We' refers to- 

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe, but at last got the tent up and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind and inside it was not too cold for us to take off our gloves. At night most climbers take off their boots, but I preferred to keep them on. Hillary on the other hand, took his off and led them next to his sleeping bag.

Question-2 : The narrator of the story is-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe, but at last got the tent up and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind and inside it was not too cold for us to take off our gloves. At night most climbers take off their boots, but I preferred to keep them on. Hillary on the other hand, took his off and led them next to his sleeping bag.

Question-3 : They took a long time to finish the work because- 

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe, but at last got the tent up and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind and inside it was not too cold for us to take off our gloves. At night most climbers take off their boots, but I preferred to keep them on. Hillary on the other hand, took his off and led them next to his sleeping bag.

Question-4 : They crawled into the tent because-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Vacations were once prerogative of the privileged few even as late as the nineteenth century. Now, they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate masses as in China for whom life, except, for sleep and brief periods of rest is uninterrupted toil. They are more necessary now than before because the average life is well-rounded and has become increasingly departmentalized. The idea of vacations, as we conceive it, must be incomprehensible to primitive people. Rest of some kind has of course always been a part of the rhythm of human life, but earlier ages did not find it necessary to organise it in the way that modern man has done. Holidays, fist days were sufficient. With modern man's increasing tensions with the useless quality of so much of his work, this break in the year's routine became steadily more necessary. Vacations became necessary for the purpose of renewal and repair. 

Question-1 : The author's main purpose in the passage is to-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Vacations were once prerogative of the privileged few even as late as the nineteenth century. Now, they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate masses as in China for whom life, except, for sleep and brief periods of rest is uninterrupted toil. They are more necessary now than before because the average life is well-rounded and has become increasingly departmentalized. The idea of vacations, as we conceive it, must be incomprehensible to primitive people. Rest of some kind has of course always been a part of the rhythm of human life, but earlier ages did not find it necessary to organise it in the way that modern man has done. Holidays, fist days were sufficient. With modern man's increasing tensions with the useless quality of so much of his work, this break in the year's routine became steadily more necessary. Vacations became necessary for the purpose of renewal and repair. 

Question-2 : According to the passage, we need vacations now more than ever because we have-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Vacations were once prerogative of the privileged few even as late as the nineteenth century. Now, they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate masses as in China for whom life, except, for sleep and brief periods of rest is uninterrupted toil. They are more necessary now than before because the average life is well-rounded and has become increasingly departmentalized. The idea of vacations, as we conceive it, must be incomprehensible to primitive people. Rest of some kind has of course always been a part of the rhythm of human life, but earlier ages did not find it necessary to organise it in the way that modern man has done. Holidays, fist days were sufficient. With modern man's increasing tensions with the useless quality of so much of his work, this break in the year's routine became steadily more necessary. Vacations became necessary for the purpose of renewal and repair. 

Question-3 : It is implied in the passage that our lives are very-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Vacations were once prerogative of the privileged few even as late as the nineteenth century. Now, they are considered the right of all, except for such unfortunate masses as in China for whom life, except, for sleep and brief periods of rest is uninterrupted toil. They are more necessary now than before because the average life is well-rounded and has become increasingly departmentalized. The idea of vacations, as we conceive it, must be incomprehensible to primitive people. Rest of some kind has of course always been a part of the rhythm of human life, but earlier ages did not find it necessary to organise it in the way that modern man has done. Holidays, fist days were sufficient. With modern man's increasing tensions with the useless quality of so much of his work, this break in the year's routine became steadily more necessary. Vacations became necessary for the purpose of renewal and repair. 

Question-4 : As used in the passage the word Prerogative most nearly means-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Night vision goggles work on the principle of infrared radiation. Infrared rays are electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye. It radiates from any object (even a table) in relation to its temperature. A hotter body radiates more infrared radiation. A night vision goggles receives this radiation from the surroundings and makes out places which are comparatively warmer (usually warm- blooded animals like human beings) helping the user to see in the dark or through a fog.

Question-1 : Night vision goggles can help us-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Night vision goggles work on the principle of infrared radiation. Infrared rays are electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye. It radiates from any object (even a table) in relation to its temperature. A hotter body radiates more infrared radiation. A night vision goggles receives this radiation from the surroundings and makes out places which are comparatively warmer (usually warm- blooded animals like human beings) helping the user to see in the dark or through a fog.

Question-2 : Infrared rays-

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Night vision goggles work on the principle of infrared radiation. Infrared rays are electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye. It radiates from any object (even a table) in relation to its temperature. A hotter body radiates more infrared radiation. A night vision goggles receives this radiation from the surroundings and makes out places which are comparatively warmer (usually warm- blooded animals like human beings) helping the user to see in the dark or through a fog.

Question-3 : Infrared radiations are- 

Directions (1-4) : Read the following passage carefully and answer each of the questions given below it in the context of the passage.

Night vision goggles work on the principle of infrared radiation. Infrared rays are electromagnetic radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye. It radiates from any object (even a table) in relation to its temperature. A hotter body radiates more infrared radiation. A night vision goggles receives this radiation from the surroundings and makes out places which are comparatively warmer (usually warm- blooded animals like human beings) helping the user to see in the dark or through a fog.

Question-4 : Which of the following radiates more infrared rays?