Short Advanced Reading Comprehension Test 30 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.)

Skiing is a popular sport, enjoyed by people of all ages. The best skiers, that is, the professionals, have until recently been Europeans. The Austrians, the French, and the Germans have generally been the fastest in international competitions. Recently, however, skiers from other countries have also come to the fore and demonstrated their skills. As a result, interest in the sport has become worldwide, and this has led to a highly competitive ski industry.

It is clear from the text that the European countries _____.

The author emphasizes that the development of the ski industry in the world _____.

According to the text, as a sport, skiing _____.

The Amazon basin is a huge area in Brazil. It has always attracted businessmen on account of its valuable and rich resources such as rubber, coffee, and cocoa. However, it is not easy to make money by starting an enterprise there. As the Brazilians say, ''If you want to succeed, you must believe in the Amazon, and you must be young.'' Many rich men, including Henry Zolan, have poured money into the area and gone away with nothing.

The author points out that many businessmen _____.

According to the text, there has been a great deal of economic interest in the Amazon basin _____.

One can understand from the text that the Amazon basin _____.

As industrial developments have transformed production methods, types of automatic equipment, and varieties of outputs, society has begun to familiarize itself with economic progress involving not only changes in machinery but also in people - not only expenditures on equipment but also on people. Investment in people makes it possible to take advantage of technical progress as well as to continue that progress. Improvements in health make investments in education more satisfying by extending life expectancy. Investment in education expands and extends knowledge, causing advances that raise productivity and improve health.

To the author, assets in education _____.

The passage is mainly dealing with _____.

According to the passage, _____.

Both as a profession and as a discipline, economics lost substantial status during the recession of 1984-85. The crisis that gripped the Western developed countries, including the US, was of a nature not found in economics textbooks: an inflation rate exceeding 20% a year coupled with diminishing production and high rates of unemployment. Until then, peacetime price increases had been associated with high employment and an overactive economy, while high rates of unemployment were linked with decline or stagnation. The new combination was aptly termed stagflation.

According to the passage, the term stagflation means _____.

It is said in the text that the economic crisis of the mid-1980s _____.

The main idea stressed in the passage is _____.

Political crime is different from everyday crime only in the motivation of the offender. A bank robbery, theft, drug smuggling, kidnapping, or murder is no more a crime for being politically motivated. In this perspective, terrorism is defined as ''aggravated aggression for political ends''; this differentiates terrorism both from vandalism and from crimes of violence in which no political motivation is detected. Political crime is, therefore, a wider term than terrorism, which is an acute form of it. The connection between the two is as it is between the whole and the part.

It is argued in the passage that _____.

The writer argues that a crime is political _____.

A title for this passage could be _____.

All of us would agree that we know a number of different things. If challenged to give a catalogue of what you know, you might say, for example, that you know the Italian and French languages, how to swim, how to drive a bus, how to analyze a chemical substance, that you know some history and some geography, that you know a number of different people, and so on. The list even in general terms like this would be a very long one, and it would not be possible, for practical purposes, to set out such a catalogue in detail. But one thing is obvious from the few examples I have given; the word ''know'' is commonly used in many different senses.

The key point of the passage is _____.

It is shown in the text that _____.

A suitable title for this text could be _____.

Secularization, as it has developed since the Middle Ages, has involved substituting supernatural and theological explanations with naturalistic and rational ones. This change is one of the most profound, affecting mankind, and forms the basis of modern democratic government and our scientific-technological age. In a society based on the divine right of kings, there could be no genuinely democratic government in the modern sense. Democracy is built on the principle that the individual has a right to judge political issues for himself.

According to the text, with the rise of democracy _____.

It is argued that the process of secularization _____.

In the development of modern society, _____.

The atomic bomb and, even more so, the hydrogen bomb have caused new fears, raising new doubts about the effects of science on human life. Some eminent authorities, including Einstein, have pointed out that there is a danger of extinction of all life on Earth. I do not think that this will happen in the next war, but I believe it may well happen in the subsequent one if it is allowed to occur. If this expectation is correct, we have to choose within the next fifty years or so, between two alternatives. Either we must allow the human race to exterminate itself, or we must forgo certain liberties which are very dear to us.

It is stated that _____.

The writer believes that the only way to avoid war _____.

A suitable title for this text could be _____.