English Comprehension PYQs

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

There are no ancient nations anywhere in the world.

All nations are modern. Ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient India – all of them may have had great civilizations whose architecture, art, and literature are objects of admiration. But they are not nations. To realize this truth, you will have to forget for the time being the history you were taught at school. Because it is that history, drilled into your heads from the time you were children, and constantly renewed by national festivals and ceremonies, the speeches of your leaders, and novels, films, and television serials, that make it seem obvious to you that your nation is ancient. In actual fact, it is not true. Your nation is not – indeed no nation on earth is – ancient.

Only modern people can imagine that way.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

There are no ancient nations anywhere in the world.

All nations are modern. Ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient India – all of them may have had great civilizations whose architecture, art, and literature are objects of admiration. But they are not nations. To realize this truth, you will have to forget for the time being the history you were taught at school. Because it is that history, drilled into your heads from the time you were children, and constantly renewed by national festivals and ceremonies, the speeches of your leaders, and novels, films, and television serials, that make it seem obvious to you that your nation is ancient. In actual fact, it is not true. Your nation is not – indeed no nation on earth is – ancient.

Only modern people can imagine that way.

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Approximately 7 billion of the 9.2 billion metric tonnes of plastic produced from 1950-2017 became plastic waste, ending up in landfills or being dumped. Plastic pollution can alter habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to climate change, directly affecting millions of people’s livelihoods, food production capabilities and social well-being.

UNEP’s body of work demonstrates that the problem of plastic pollution doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The environmental, social, economic and health risks of plastics need to be assessed alongside other environmental stressors, like climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource use.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

A series of 1 of shell or ivory or thin metal clothed her left upper arm all the way down to her fingers. A necklace 2 three pendants bunched together and a few bangles above the elbow and 3 on the right hands display an almost modern art. She speaks of the 4, ever hopeful human spirit. She reminds us that it is important to visit museums in our country to experience the 5_ that a work of art leaves on our senses, to find among all the riches one particular vision of beauty that speaks to us alone.