Category Archives: COMPREHENSION

115. Reading Skills Comprehension: Risks on the Road

Risks on the Road Read the following passage carefully.                                          1. These days, it is not unusual to see people listening to music or using their electronic gadgets while crossing busy roads or travelling on public transport, regardless of the risks involved. I have often wondered why they take such risks. Is it because they want to exude a… Read More »

122. Reading Skills Comprehension: Listening to Music

Listening to Music Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow them:                              These days, it is not unusual to see people listening to music or using their electronic gadgets while crossing busy roads or travelling on public transport, regardless of the risks involved. I have often wondered why they take such risks. Is it because… Read More »

Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice Worksheets (MCQ)| PDF

Passage- 21 Read the passage given below: 1. Ideas rained from across the world. Teaching science from comics, framing questions using students’ examples, recording on mobile phones to encourage English speech, working on multimedia to craft lesson plans can he Amazonian exercises. But painstakingly, they made it possible. Six Indians were among four hundred teachers from 60 countries… Read More »

14. Reading Skills Comprehension: Abraham Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow –                   Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Kentucky. A cabin is a small house made of wood. When he was seven years old, his family moved to Indiana. In 1830, the family moved to Illinois. As a boy,… Read More »

128. Reading Skills Comprehension: Power of Music

Power of Music Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow them:                              When we listen to the sublime and mournful Sonatas of Beethoven, the tender melodies of Bellini, the violin of Yehudi Menuhin, the shehnai of Bismillah Khan, the sitar of Ravi Shankar or the flute of T.R. Mahalingam, we fall into a trance; the… Read More »

89.eading Skills Comprehension: PUNCTUALITY

PUNCTUALITY Read the Passage Carefully and Answers the  Following Questions:- 1. Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society. Without it nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion’, everything would be in a state of chaos2 Only in a sparsely3 populated rural community is it possible to disregard it. In the ordinary… Read More »

45. Reading Skills Comprehension: VEGETATION

VEGETATION Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 1.That large animals require luxuriant vegetation has been a general assumption which has passed from one work to another, but I do not hesitate to say that it is completely false and that it has vitiated the reasoning of geologists on some points of great interest… Read More »

1. Reading Skills Comprehension: Homeopathy

 Read the following passage carefully:                                                             Homeopathy Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, that attempts to treat patients with heavily diluted medicines. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term succession after each dilution under the assumption that this increases the… Read More »