Reading comprehension MCQs with Answers

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Art, like words, is a form of communication. Words, spoken and written, render accessible to humans of the latest generation all the knowledge discovered by the experience & reflection both of preceding generations and of the best & foremost minds of their own times. Art renders accessible to people of this latest generation all the feelings experienced by their predecessors & those already felt by their best and foremost contemporaries. Just as the evolution of knowledge proceeds by dislodging & replacing that which is mistaken, so too the evolution of feeling proceeds through art, feelings less kind and less needful being replaced by others kinder & more needful for human well-being. This is the purpose of art, & the more art fulfils that purpose the better the art; the less it fulfils it, the worse the art.

The author develops the passage primarily by

Read the following passage to answer these questions:

Art, like words, is a form of communication. Words, spoken and written, render accessible to humans of the latest generation all the knowledge discovered by the experience & reflection both of preceding generations and of the best & foremost minds of their own times. Art renders accessible to people of this latest generation all the feelings experienced by their predecessors & those already felt by their best and foremost contemporaries. Just as the evolution of knowledge proceeds by dislodging & replacing that which is mistaken, so too the evolution of feeling proceeds through art, feelings less kind and less needful being replaced by others kinder & more needful for human well-being. This is the purpose of art, & the more art fulfils that purpose the better the art; the less it fulfils it, the worse the art.

According to author, knowledge is

Read the following passage to answer these questions:

Art, like words, is a form of communication. Words, spoken and written, render accessible to humans of the latest generation all the knowledge discovered by the experience & reflection both of preceding generations and of the best & foremost minds of their own times. Art renders accessible to people of this latest generation all the feelings experienced by their predecessors & those already felt by their best and foremost contemporaries. Just as the evolution of knowledge proceeds by dislodging & replacing that which is mistaken, so too the evolution of feeling proceeds through art, feelings less kind and less needful being replaced by others kinder & more needful for human well-being. This is the purpose of art, & the more art fulfils that purpose the better the art; the less it fulfils it, the worse the art.

The style of the passage can be best described as

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"Freedom (the absence of coercion) can be valueless to those victims of unrestricted competition too poor to make use of it so it will be pedantic to point out to them that those starving are free. This is the truth exaggerated by the marxist whose identification of poverty with lack of freedom confuse two different evils"
The above passage

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"Freedom (the absence of coercion) can be valueless to those victims of unrestricted competition too poor to make use of it so it will be pedantic to point out to them that those starving are free. This is the truth exaggerated by the marxist whose identification of poverty with lack of freedom confuse two different evils"
All through passage, the two different evils pointed out are

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"Freedom (the absence of coercion) can be valueless to those victims of unrestricted competition too poor to make use of it so it will be pedantic to point out to them that those starving are free. This is the truth exaggerated by the marxist whose identification of poverty with lack of freedom confuse two different evils"
In the context in which it is used In the passage the word 'pedantic' means

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PASSAGE-I

Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Louden Moor School. He was then transferred to Darvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Darvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. Two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school. He decided to study medicine.

Alexander trekked ________ miles every day to attend Darvel School.

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PASSAGE-I

Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Louden Moor School. He was then transferred to Darvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Darvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. Two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school. He decided to study medicine.

“He was a quick student ... .” This means that Alexander

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PASSAGE-I

Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Louden Moor School. He was then transferred to Darvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Darvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. Two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school. He decided to study medicine.

The word “legacy” in the context means

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PASSAGE-II

Laws of nature are not commands but statements of facts. The use of the word “Law” in this context is rather unfortunate. It would be better to speak of uniformities of nature. This would do away with elementary fallacy that a law implies a law-giver. If a piece of matter does not obey a law of nature it is not punished. On the contrary we say that the law has been incorrectly stated.

Laws of nature differ from man-made laws because