The Reading Comprehension Method — Practice

Question 1

Passage: Public libraries are often dismissed as relics of a pre-digital age. Yet in many towns they have quietly reinvented themselves — lending laptops, hosting job workshops, and offering the only free, warm, quiet space open to all. Far from fading, the library has become an essential piece of civic infrastructure.
The main idea of the passage is that

Accepted Answer

B

Question 2

Passage: Critics argue that the new stadium is a waste of public money. It is true that the cost is high and other needs are pressing. But the stadium has already drawn three international events to the city, filling hotels and creating hundreds of jobs, and its revenue will repay the cost within a decade.
What is the author's own position?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 3

Passage: Bees communicate the location of food through a 'waggle dance', in which the angle and duration of the movement encode direction and distance. For instance, a dance angled thirty degrees from the vertical tells other bees to fly thirty degrees from the sun.
The sentence beginning 'For instance…' serves to

Accepted Answer

B

Question 4

Passage: The Sundarbans, a vast mangrove forest straddling India and Bangladesh, is the only mangrove habitat in the world inhabited by tigers. Its trees survive in salt water by filtering salt through their roots and excreting the excess through their leaves. The forest also shields the coast from cyclones.
According to the passage, how do the mangrove trees cope with salt water?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 5

Passage: When the factory closed, the town's only cinema, two of its three restaurants, and its weekly market all shut within a year. The bus service, once hourly, now runs just twice a day.
Which can be inferred?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 6

Passage: Solar panels have become dramatically cheaper over the last decade, and their efficiency has steadily improved. In sunny regions they now generate electricity at a lower cost than new coal plants.
Which statement is NOT supported by the passage?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 7

Passage: One reads the minister's latest report on unemployment with a kind of weary admiration — admiration for the sheer ingenuity with which inconvenient numbers have been buried, reclassified, and footnoted into invisibility.
The author's attitude towards the report is best described as

Accepted Answer

B

Question 8

Passage: It is often said that reading fiction is a mere escape from reality. This chapter will argue the opposite: that fiction, by placing us inside other minds, is one of the most powerful tools we have for understanding the real world.
The main function of these lines is to

Accepted Answer

B

Practice — The Reading Comprehension Method

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