Comprehensive Passeges

COMPREHENSION PASSAGE - 1

            Religion is the greatest instrument for so raising us.  It is amazing that a person not intellectually bright, perhaps not even educated, is capable of grasping and living by some thing so advanced as the principles of Christianity.  Yet, there is a common phenomenon.  It is not, however, in my province to talk about religion but rather to stress  the power which great literature and the great personalities whom we meet in it and in history have to open and enlarge over minds, and to show us what is first rate in human personality and human character by showing us goodness and greatness.

Answer the following questions:                                                             

1. In the passage, the author’s ultimate intention is to talk about - - -
2. The phrase “so raising us” means - - -
3. What surprised the author is that - - -
4. The author hesitates to talk about religion because -  - -
5. According to the author, we come across examples of greatness and nobility in ---

COMPREHENSION PASSAGE – 2

 The recent rapid growth of industry has, in some cases, been so excessive that too much manufacturing capacity has been developed in some fields of production, which force companies to sell their surplus than normal.  This will make it almost impossible to develop local industries producing the same items because consumers will prefer to buy the cheaper imported product.

           

Answer the following questions:                                                           

1. Why is it necessary for companies to sell products at cheaper prices?
2. According to the passage, the situation resulting from the rapid industrial growth is  - - -
3. “This will make …… “ in this sentence, “This refers most closely and directly to - - - 

4. What factors are necessary to develop local industries?
5. ‘Imported product’ as used in the last products refers to - - -

                                        COMPREHENSION PASSAGE – 3

           

Gandhiji had to travel by train from Durban to Pretoria in connection with his job.  Once while traveling by train, he was asked by the white passengers to leave the first class compartment and shift to the van compartment.  He refused to do so.  Thereafter he was pushed forcibly out of the compartment and his luggage was thrown on the platform.  It was winter and he kept shivering all night.  He did not go to the waiting room because the white men sleeping there might insult him further.  This event was a turning point in the life of Gandhiji and he decided to stay back in South Africa and fight against this blatant injustice.  

Answer the following questions:                                                            

1. The White people asked Gandhiji to abandon the first class compartment

       because ---

2. Why was he thrown out of the compartment?  Because ----
3. Why did he not go to the waiting room to spend the night?
4. What was the turning event in the life of Gandhiji?
5. Why did Gandhiji stay back in South Africa?

COMPREHENSION PASSAGE – 4

S.N. Bose’s experimental skill was not confined to physics alone.  His energy had been channelised in several directions.  One direction in which his energy flowed more consistently than in any other was the popularization of science.  In a newly independent country like India, determined to develop her industries ad quickly as possible, there was every danger of leadership in scientific research falling into the hands of those whom C.P.  Snow has called ‘slide-rule’ scientists.  As a safeguard against this, even before independence, Bose found a scientific journal in Bengali, Bijnan Parichaya, to spread scientific knowledge among the common people. 

Answer the following questions:                                                            

1. What kind of a man was Bose?
2. How did Bose make contribution to spread of scientific knowledge among common people?
3. Who has called slide-rule scientist?
4. Who published “Bijnan Parichaya”?
5. How do ‘Bijnan Parichaya’ useful to common people?

             COMPREHENSION PASSAAGE – 5

            The avowed purpose of the exact science is to establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can be formally set out and empirically tested.  Could that ideal be fully-achieved, all truth and all error could henceforth be ascribed to an exact theory of the universe, while we who accept this theory would be relieved of any occasion for exercising our personal judgment.  We should only have to follow the rules faithfully.  Classical meachanics approaches this ideal so closely that is often thought to have achieved it.  But this leaves out of account the element of personal judgement involved in applying the formulae of meachanics to the facts of experience.

Answer the following questions:                                                           

1. What do you find in exact sciences?
2. What are the purpose of exact sciences?
3. What is an exact theory of the universe?
4. How do you define classical mechanics?
5. How do you apply the formulae of mechanics?