reading comprehension Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ssc chsl tier 1 2024

Directions:

In this section you have six short passages. Each passage is followed by questions based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the questions based on the passage. You are required to select your answers from the given options.

PASSAGE

I came home from one vacation to find that my brother Ron had brought a dog while I was away. A big burly, choleric dog, he always acted as if he thought I wasn't one of the family. There was a slight advantage in being one of the family. For he didn't bite the family as often as he bit strangers. Mother used to send a box of candy every Christmas to the people he bit. The list finally contained forty or more names. Nobody could understand why we didn't get rid of the dog!

Question :1

The dog did not consider the writer as one of the family. What do you think was the consequence of this?

Answer: (a)

Question :2

The Christmas list contained more than forty names. What does this suggest?

Answer: (b)

Question :3

Which of the following descriptions fits the dog?

Answer: (d)

Directions:

In this section there are six short passages. Each passage is followed by items based on the passage. Read each passage and answer the items that follow.

PASSAGE

What were the early ideas of men about the sky and the earth? They naturally believed that the earth was motionless, and they also supposed that it was flat. These two ideas do not surprise us. Children now-a-days think the same until they are taught differently. How were men to know that the earth was a ball circling round the sun? They had no telescope for accurate observation. They had not travelled round the world. In fact, many parts of the world in those days were unexplored and unknown. They thought they lived on a kind of flat plate, and that the sky with the sun and the moon and the stars, was a kind of inverted bowl turning round above them. The sun, the moon and the stars were their lamps for day and night.

Question :4

What was true for the early man ?

Answer: (a)

Question :5

Unless children 'are taught differently they think that

Answer: (a)

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