Comprehension
Direction: You have a passage with 10 questions Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Many people who are looking to get a pet dog get a puppy. There are many reasons why people get puppies. After all, puppies are cute, friendly, and playful. But even though puppies make good pets, there are good reasons why you should consider getting an adult dog instead. When you get a puppy, you have to teach it how to behave. You have to make sure that the puppy is housebroken so that it does not go to the bathroom inside the house. You have to teach the puppy, not to jump up on your guests or chew on your shoes. You have to train the puppy to walk on a leash. This is a lot of work. On the other hand, when you get an adult dog there is a good chance that it will already know how to do all of the previously mentioned things. Many adult dogs have already been housebroken. Many adult dogs will not jump on or chew things that you do not want them to jump on or chew. Many adult dogs will be able to walk on a leash without pulling you to the other side of the street. Puppies also have a lot of energy and want to play all of the time. This can be fun, but you might not want to play as much as your puppy does. Puppies will not always sleep through the night or let you relax as you watch television. On the other hand, most adult dogs will wait on you to play. What is more, they will sleep when you are sleeping and are happy to watch television on the couch right beside you. There is one last reason why you should get an adult dog instead of a puppy. When most people go to the pound to get a dog, they get a puppy. This means that many adult dogs spend a lot of time in the pound and some never find good homes. So if you are looking to get a dog for a pet, you should think about getting an adult dog. They are good pets who need good homes.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
house-broken : trained to defecate (to get rid of solid waste from your body through your bowels) and urinate outside the house or in a special box. leash : a long piece of leather, chain or rope used for holding and controlling a dog.
pound : a place where dogs that have been found in the street without their owners are kept until their owners claim them.
- Which is the best example of a dog that is housebroken?
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Spot goes outside to use the bathroom
Correct Option: B
Spot goes outside to use the bathroom
Direction: You have passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking and talking about “how bad we were bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
feeling seedy : feeling dirty and unpleasant because of immoral or illegal activities.
impelled : forced.
virulent :extremely dangerous or harmful; showing strong negative and bitter feelings vertigo : the feeling of dizziness and fear, and of losing your balance.
garrulity : talkativeness : tribulation : great trouble or suffering. frailty : weakness and poor health
- The word which is closest in meaning to virulent is
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hostile
Correct Option: D
hostile
- Harris was troubled by
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symptom of vertigo
Correct Option: A
symptom of vertigo
- The author of the above passage seems to be suffering from
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an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life
Correct Option: D
an unnecessarily dark, gloomy and pessimistic attitude to life
- Whenever the speaker read a liver pill circular
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he felt sure that he had a liver disorder
Correct Option: B
he felt sure that he had a liver disorder