Comprehension Quiz Part-II

COMPREHENSION PART-II

A few guidlines :

1. Read the given passage hurriedly (keeping in mind that you have a very limited time at your disposal) to find out the subject matter.
2. Read the questions carefully.
3. Read the passage again keeping in mind the questions that you have to answer.
4. Mark the most appropriate choice.

PASSAGE

Fifty million pounds are spent every year in Great Britain on chocolates and confectionery. So, it is announced in a paragraph relating to the Chocolate and Confectionery Exhibition at Olympia. Statistics are often depressing nowadays, but the figures I have qouted give us grounds for believing that the world is in some important respects a better place today than it has ever been before. What child of any age, since  Moses lay in the ark of bulrushes, would not wish to have been born into a world containing such mountains of edible happiness?

By saying that "the world is a better place today than it has ever been before" because of the availability of sweets in abundance, the writer

ironically condemns the manufacture of sweets strikingly makes a statement from the point of view of children who love sweets exaggerates sweet-eating criticizes wasting large amounts of money on chocolates and confectionery

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What, according to the author, is so depressing about statistics nowadays?

they make long lists of calculations they are made by every country they make one feel comfortable with suggested enormity none of the above

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Why does the author say that the world is a better place today?

the world has enormous statistics the world has sweets in abundance huge amount deal of money is spent on chocolates and confectionery children of today have the widest choice of sweets

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Which one of the following expressions is nearest in meaning to the phrase "the ark of bulrushes"?

a boat rowed by hands a wicker basket for floating in water a box made of cattail a raft that floats

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By "mountains of edible happiness", the author means

chocolates and confectionery abundance of happiness mountains where eating is a pleasure none of the above

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Questions	Answer
By saying that "the world is a better place today than it has ever been before" because of the availability of sweets in abundance, the writer	ironically condemns the manufacture of sweets strikingly makes a statement from the point of view of children who love sweets exaggerates sweet-eating criticizes wasting large amounts of money on chocolates and confectionery
What, according to the author, is so depressing about statistics nowadays?	they make long lists of calculations they are made by every country they make one feel comfortable with suggested enormity none of the above
Why does the author say that the world is a better place today?	the world has enormous statistics the world has sweets in abundance huge amount deal of money is spent on chocolates and confectionery children of today have the widest choice of sweets
Which one of the following expressions is nearest in meaning to the phrase "the ark of bulrushes"?	a boat rowed by hands a wicker basket for floating in water a box made of cattail a raft that floats
By "mountains of edible happiness", the author means	chocolates and confectionery abundance of happiness mountains where eating is a pleasure none of the above