reading comprehension test Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ssc cgl tier 1 2023

Directions:

In this Section you have Eight short passages. After each passage, you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read a passage, and then answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

PASSAGE

It was Galileo and Newton – notwithstanding that Newton himself was a deeply religious man – who destroyed the old comfortable picture of a friendly universe governed by spiritual values. And this was effected, not by Newton's discovery of law of gravitation nor by any of Galileo's brilliant investigations, but by the general picture of the world which these men and others of their time made the basis of the science, not only of their own day, but of all succeeding generations down to the present. That is why the century immediately following Newton, the eighteenth century, was notoriously an age of religious skepticism. Skepticism did not have to wait for the discoveries of Darwin and the geologists in the nineteenth century. It flooded the world immediately after the age of the rise of science.

Question :26

Religious skepticism arose because:

Answer: (a)

Question :27

'The old comfortable picture of a friendly universe' was:

Answer: (c)

Directions:

In this Section you have Eight short passages. After each passage, you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read a passage, and then answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

PASSAGE

Popular illusion about birds extend further than the use of the word 'egg-shape' that would suggest that all eggs are alike. For instance, there is the popular idea that owls hoot. Actually, only very few owls hoot and these include the common brown or tawny wood owl. The white barn own screeches; the little own has a wailing cry; the long-earned owl barks; and the short-eared owl snorts! Another mistaken idea is that all ducks 'quack', because the common farmyard duck is a domesticated form of the common wild duck or mallard that quacks. Actually most wild ducks call with whistles.

Question :28

The main purpose of this passage is

Answer: (d)

Question :29

The common duck is not a separate specie but a tamed version of wild variety because it

Answer: (a)

Question :30

The impression created by repeating the terms, 'popular' and 'common' are

Answer: (d)

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