English Language Reading Comprehension Test - 12 (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

Reading Comprehension 

Set - 12

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

There are two problems which cause great worry to our educationists, the problem of religious and moral instruction in a land of many faiths and the problem arising out of a large variety of languages. Taking up the education of children, we see that they should be trained to love one another, to be kind and helpful to all, to be tender to the lower animals and to observe and think right. The task of teaching them how to read and write and to count and calculate is important, but it should not make us lose sight of the primary aim of moulding personality in the right way. For this, it is necessary to call into aid, culture, tradition and religion. But in our country we have, in the same school, to look after boys and girls born in different faiths and belonging to families that live diverse ways of life and follow different forms of worship associated with different denominations of religion. It will not do to tread the easy path of evading the difficulty by attending solely to physical culture and intellectual education. We have to evolve a suitable technique and method for serving the spiritual needs of school children professing different faiths. We would thereby promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, a fuller understanding and helpful co-operation among the different communities in our society. Again we must remain one people and we have therefore to give basic training in our schools to speak and understand more languages than one and to appreciate and respect the different religions prevailing in India. It is not right for us in India to be dissuaded from this by considerations as to overtaking the young mind. What is necessary must be done. And it is not in fact too great a burden. 

Q1. The main objective of education in India is ______________

(A) imparting knowledge
(B) moulding the proper personality
(C) developing language skills
(D) teaching physical culture


Q2. India is a ______________ country.

(A) multilayered
(B) multicoloured
(C) multinational
(D) multilinguistic


Q3. It is a challenge for the educationists to cater to the spiritual needs of Indian students because__________.

(A) they are not exposed to many languages
(B) they don’t tolerate each other
(C) they practice different faiths
(D) they live diverse ways of life


Q4. ____________Should not be considered a burden for the school children in India.

(A) Learning more languages
(B) Understanding mathematical calculations
(C) Adopting new techniques and methods
(D) following age-old culture and tradition


Q5. Pick the word from the passage which means’ escape or avoid’.

(A) evolve
(B) prevail
(C) tread
(D) evade





Answers: 
1: (B) moulding the proper personality
2: (D) multilinguistic
3: (C) they practice different faiths
4: (A) Learning more languages
5: (D) evade



☛See also:
English Reading Comprehension (Set-1)
English Reading Comprehension (Set-2)
English Reading Comprehension(Set-3)
Reading Comprehension(Set-4)
Reading Comprehension (Set-5)
Reading Comprehension (Set-6)
Reading Comprehension (Set-7)
Reading Comprehension (set-10)
Reading Comprehension (Set-11)
Reading Comprehension (Set-12)


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