Exercises
Read tthe following passage and answer the question given after them.
1.Complementing Comprehension
Comprehension is a very comprehensive concept. It cover many aspects. Knowing the mere meaning of the text is but a small part of comprehension. Comprehension includes
(a) decoding the meaning,
(b) relating it to what one knows
, (c) thinking about it appropriately,
(d) responding positively,
(e) applying it to real life and
(f) remembering it and retrieving it when needed.
In that inclusive sense, comprehension forms the very base of any learning-Languages, humanities, sciences and most importantly, life’s lessons. Treating comprehension as an examination-linked task is to limit our own progess. Enlightenment, enrichment and enjoyment go hand in hand as one steadily progresses in acquiring comprehension skills!
1) Why is comprehension considered comprehensive?
2) What is meant by comprehension ?
3) Write down two important aspects of true comprehension.
4) What is at the very base of any learning?
5) According to the passage, what is the most important subject to learn?
6) What is comprehension in the opinion of some persons that hampers one’s progress in learning?
7) what is the result of steady progress in ones comprehension skills?
8) write the expression used in the passage to mean together in coordination.
- ANSWERS
1) It covers many aspects
2) knowing the meaning of the text
3) decoding the meaning, remembering it, recollecting it when needed
4) comprehension
5) life’s lessons
6) an examination-linked task
7) Enlightenment, enrichment and enjoyment go hand in hand.
8) go hand in hand
2. Opportunities Unlimited
I notice the method applied to about six of the wealthiest men in England in a book of interviews published by an able and well-known journalist.
[This is a single sentence with twenty-six words. It is taken from GK Chesterton’s The Worship of the Wealthy.]
1) Who does the word I refer to in the passage?2) What did the narrator notice ?
3) Where did the narrator notice it?
4) To whom was that method applied?
5) Where did those six wealthy persons hail from?
6) Which is the book mentioned here?
7) Who published that book?
8) What is the specialty of that publisher?
9) What kind of people find place in the passage?
10) Write the synonym of popular.
11) Write the other forms of the word able.
12) Can we also call a reporter a journalist?
13) Can you write two or more such words used in that field as journalist?
ANSWERS
1) the speaker
2) the method applied to about six of the wealthiest men in England.
3) in book of interviews w as
4) to about six of the wealthiest men in England
5) from England
6) a book of interviews
7) a well-known journalist
8) an able and well-known person
9) wealthy, famous persons
10) famous/well-known
11) ably, ability, capable, unable, inability
12) No, we cannot
13) editor, composer, staffer, reporter, desk.
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