Comprehension


Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
We set out for the gallows. Two warders marched on either side of the prisoner, with their rifles at the slope. two others marched close against him, gripping him by his arm and shoulder, as though, at once pushing and supporting him. The rest of us, magistrates and the like, followed behind. Suddenly, when we had gone ten yards, the procession stopped short without any order or warning. A dreadful thing had happened a dog, come goodness knows whence, had appeared in the yard. It came bounding among us with a loud volley of barks, and leapt round us wagging its whole body, wild with glee at finding so many human beings together. It was a large woolly dog, half Airedale, half Pariah. For a moment, it pranced round us, and then, before anyone could stop it, it had made a dash for the prisoner, and jumping up tried to lick his face. Everyone stood aghast, too taken aback even to grab at the dog.

  1. How did the arrival of the dog change the atmosphere of the event?









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    It stunned everyone present there

    Correct Option: D

    It stunned everyone present there


  1. What was the tone of the essay at the beginning?









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    Gloomy

    Correct Option: C

    Gloomy



Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health really means to enable a person
to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians, pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. A healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health : he should be using health for work.

  1. A healthy man should be concerned with









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    his work which good health makes possible

    Correct Option: A

    his work which good health makes possible


  1. The passage tells us









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    what a healthy man should or should not do

    Correct Option: B

    what a healthy man should or should not do



  1. Talking about health all the time makes people









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    often suffer from imaginary illness

    Correct Option: D

    often suffer from imaginary illness