Short Advanced Reading Comprehension Test 22 With MCQs and Answers

(Please note: The following questions are related to a specific reading passage, available solely before the first question. Remember, referring back to the reading text while answering the questions may be helpful to ensure accuracy.)

The increasingly sophisticated understanding of counterinsurgency led to a significant discovery that could be applied with success to other forms of conflict. The political dominance of internal wars is also to be found in some international conflicts. The evidence for this is empirical, no satisfactory general theory has yet been formulated. It is difficult to put a date on this insight, but some of the examples of recent history are illustrative. The US bombing of Libya on 14 April 1986 is one. That mission was conducted for political and psychological purposes. It was not a simple military operation but delivered a loud message that state-sponsored terrorism would not go unpunished. Military targets were hit, but their destruction was not the driving purpose. Rules of engagement were strict; there were to be no attacks on targets of opportunity. Despite precautions, unintentional damage to other than selected targets occurred.

The discovery attained after the increasingly better understanding of counterinsurgency is _____.

According to the paragraph, _____.

The message intended to be delivered by the bombardment was _____.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things which seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt. The propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no greys in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. He must never admit that he may be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents ought to be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or if they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated.

The distinction between philosophy and propaganda is _____.

It can be inferred from the statements of the propagandist that _____.

According to the propagandist, when a rival becomes intolerable, _____.

As for the nervous system, it is one of the most complicated and significant systems in the human body. The controlling units of the system are located in the brain, from where messages are sent to activate other systems. Much like a computer network, every part of the body is connected to the brain through nerves. They direct muscular movements of the body. They tell the body parts when and how to move. They also direct cognitive processes like learning and not forgetting a language. Without the central nervous system, it would be impossible to see, hear and feel something. For instance, as written earlier in the previous paragraph, especially, the muscular system would not work properly. How the conduction of messages is carried out along these natural wires is illustrated below.

The passage from which this paragraph is taken is about _____.

The paragraph that follows this one is possibly about _____.

It is revealed in the passage that _____.

Atoms are invisibly small parts of elements. The atom itself is composed of three smaller parts; positive charges and neutral particles in the centre, and after a considerable amount of space, there are rings carrying the other part, negative charges. The weight of the atom is calculated by adding the neutral particles and the positive charges. The negative and positive charges are the same in number. Having an amazingly powerful force, the neutral particle in the centre is the most important part. That is the nuclear energy we all know. When a neutral particle, for instance, from a uranium atom is disconnected from the centre, the atom loses its stability and becomes radioactive. This outgoing particle hits one atom after another, causing a consecutive reaction that produces nuclear energy.

If the negative Charges and the positive ones are added, _____.

If a neutral particle flies out of the centre of an atom, _____.

According to the passage, it wouldn't be right to say that _____.

One day Josper Fant caught Bolivar skinning a rattlesnake. He assumed that Bolivar was merely going to make himself a rattlesnake belt, however, he happened to turn around as Bolivar sliced the snake right into the stew-pot, a sight which agitated him greatly. He had heard that people ate snakes but had never expected to do so himself. When he told the other hands what he had seen, they were so aroused that they wanted to hang Bolivar on the spot, or at least rope him and drag him through the prickly pear to improve his manners. But when they approached Augustus with the information about the snake, he just laughed at them and attempted to give them a lecture on the culinary properties of a rattlesnake.

Josper Fant became worried _____.

It is inferred from the passage that _____.

According to the passage, _____.

Deep in the centre of the human brain are a number of specific structures, such as the hypothalamus and limbic system, which make up the "emotional brain." These brain structures play important roles in regulating a number of physical and emotional functions, including appetite, sleep cycles, and sexual drive. They include pleasure centres and pain centres, operating to control feelings and emotional expression. When your emotional brain is functioning normally, you are able to get a good night's sleep, feel rested, have normal sexual interest and appetite, and not feel overwhelmed by intense feelings. In other words, you feel normal. However, in biological depressions, such brain areas begin to malfunction and can produce a number of significant symptoms.

It can be concluded from the passage that _____.

The emotional brain _____.

Sleeplessness may occur _____.

Most debates about whether or not men are stronger than women are meaningless because the disputants fail to consider that the word "stronger" may mean many things. Most men can surpass most women in lifting heavy weights, striking an object (say a baseball or an opponent's jaw) running, jumping, or doing heavy physical labour. However, the statistics indicate that most women live longer than most men, that they have a better chance of resisting disease, and that they can beat men at operations requiring finger dexterity and the ability to work accurately under monotonous conditions. On this kind of proof, it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men. The truth is that each sex can surpass the other in certain kinds of activities. To say that one is stronger than the other is to indulge in an argument that would arise if the word "stronger" were more sharply defined.

It will prove inconclusive to argue about if women are weaker than men _____.

It would be justifiable to argue that women are stronger than men only _____.

It is stressed in the passage that _____.

Is it possible to mould the unborn child's character by the conduct of the mother during pregnancy? What we know of prenatal development makes all this seem utterly impossible. How could such extremely complex influences pass from the mother to the child? There is no connection between their nervous systems. Even the blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. They lie side by side and the chemicals are interchanged through the walls by a process that we call osmosis. An emotional shock to the mother will influence her child because it alters the activity of her glands and so the chemistry of her blood. Any chemical change in the mother's blood will affect the child -for better or worse. However, we cannot see how a liking for mathematics or poetic genius can be dissolved in the blood and produce a similar liking or genius in the child.

It is expressed in the passage that _____.

Even though the blood vessels of mother and child are indirectly connected, _____.

According to the passage, the present birth technology _____.