Direction: You have brief 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
Two bike-borne youths snatched a gold chain worth 60,000 from a 35-year-old homemaker in Salt Lake on Thursday morning, two days after a Bangalore-based woman was robbed in the township in similar fashion. Around 7.30 am at BG block, Keshtopur resident Sujata Dey was walking home after dropping her son in school when the youths, wearing full-mask helmets that covered their faces, snatched the chain from behind and sped away. “I was walking back towards the Keshtopur footbridge, talking with a friend, when I felt a tug at my neck. Within moments, my chain was in the hands of the pillion rider. We ran for a distance chasing them but they soon took a sharp turn and we lost them”, Dey said. She said she couldn’t take down the bike’s registration number. “I can only recall that it was orange,” she said. Dey dialled 100, the police helpline, from her cellphone. She was directed to lodge a complaint with Bidhannagar East police station. On Tuesday morning, two bike-borne youths had snatched a chain from Papiya Roy Chowdhury near her home in AE block. The back-to-back snatchings have prompted township residents to demand stricter policing. “Salt Lake is becoming unsafe. Criminals are robbing residents at will. The police should take strict measures,” said Sreemoyee Sen, a resident of AB block.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
sped away : to move away quickly
tug : a sudden hard pull
pillion : a seat for a passenger behind the driver of a bike
divected : given order
lodge :to make a formal statement about something to an authority at
will : whenever/wherever you like

Direction: You have a passage with 5 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Michelle Obama plans to go to Oak Creek, Milwaukee, to meet family members of those killed and injured in the gurdwara shooting this month. The White House said the First Lady's visit on Thursday is part of the administration’s outreach to the Sikh
community after the August 5 shooting. A gunman killed six people attending Sunday services before killing himself. The gunman was associated with white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups. Investigators say they may never know for certain what prompted his attack. The Sikh community welcomed the White House announcement as a great gesture. It is great to hear that the First Lady will be comforting the families devastated by the violence in the gurdwara, the chairman of the Sikh Council, Rajwant Singh, said
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
supremacists: persons who believe that their own race is better than others and should be in power. outreach : a service/advice provided to people for help prompted: to make somebody to do something :gesture : something that you do/say to show a particular feeling/intention : comforting : making you feel calmer and less worried/ unhappy :devastated : to completely destroy a place/an area