Reading Comprehension Questions & Answers

Q11 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

In a disarmingly frank talk at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai, the Japanese Ambassador in India dwelt at length on issues that exercise the minds of Japanese investors when they consider investment proposals in India.

Raising the question "What comparative advantages does India offer as an investment market?", he said though labour in India is inexpensive, wage levels are offset by productivity level to a large extent.

Acknowledging that the vastness of the Indian market is a great inducement for investment in manufacturing industry, he wondered if it was justifiable to provide that overseas remittance of profit in foreign exchange be fully covered by exchange earnings as had been done. Significantly, on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to Japan, the government delinked profits repatriation from exports, meeting this demand.

The Ambassador said foreign investors needed to be assured of the continuity and consistency of the liberalisation policy and the fact that new measures had been put into force by means of administrative notifications without amending government laws acted as a damper.

The Ambassador pleaded for speedy formulation of the exit policy and pointed to the highly restrictive control by the government on disinvestment by foreign partners in joint ventures in India.

While it is all too easy to dismiss critical comment on conditions in India contemptuously, there can be little doubt that if foreign investment is to be wooed assiduously, we will have to meet exacting international standards and cater at least partially to what we may consider the idiosyncrasies of our foreign collaborators. The Japanese too have passed through a stage in the fifties when their products were derided as sub-standard and shoddy. That they have come out of that ordeal of fire to emerge as an economic superpower speaks as much of their doggedness to pursue goals against all odds as of their ability to improvise and adapt to internationally acceptable standards.

There is no gain saying that the past record of Japanese investment is a poor benchmark for future expectations.

The author has appreciated the Japanese for their:

Q12 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

In a disarmingly frank talk at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai, the Japanese Ambassador in India dwelt at length on issues that exercise the minds of Japanese investors when they consider investment proposals in India.

Raising the question "What comparative advantages does India offer as an investment market?", he said though labour in India is inexpensive, wage levels are offset by productivity level to a large extent.

Acknowledging that the vastness of the Indian market is a great inducement for investment in manufacturing industry, he wondered if it was justifiable to provide that overseas remittance of profit in foreign exchange be fully covered by exchange earnings as had been done. Significantly, on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to Japan, the government delinked profits repatriation from exports, meeting this demand.

The Ambassador said foreign investors needed to be assured of the continuity and consistency of the liberalisation policy and the fact that new measures had been put into force by means of administrative notifications without amending government laws acted as a damper.

The Ambassador pleaded for speedy formulation of the exit policy and pointed to the highly restrictive control by the government on disinvestment by foreign partners in joint ventures in India.

While it is all too easy to dismiss critical comment on conditions in India contemptuously, there can be little doubt that if foreign investment is to be wooed assiduously, we will have to meet exacting international standards and cater at least partially to what we may consider the idiosyncrasies of our foreign collaborators. The Japanese too have passed through a stage in the fifties when their products were derided as sub-standard and shoddy. That they have come out of that ordeal of fire to emerge as an economic superpower speaks as much of their doggedness to pursue goals against all odds as of their ability to improvise and adapt to internationally acceptable standards.

There is no gain saying that the past record of Japanese investment is a poor benchmark for future expectations.

According to the Japanese Ambassador, which of the following motivates the foreign investors to invest in Indian manufacturing industry?

Q13 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

In a disarmingly frank talk at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai, the Japanese Ambassador in India dwelt at length on issues that exercise the minds of Japanese investors when they consider investment proposals in India.

Raising the question "What comparative advantages does India offer as an investment market?", he said though labour in India is inexpensive, wage levels are offset by productivity level to a large extent.

Acknowledging that the vastness of the Indian market is a great inducement for investment in manufacturing industry, he wondered if it was justifiable to provide that overseas remittance of profit in foreign exchange be fully covered by exchange earnings as had been done. Significantly, on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to Japan, the government delinked profits repatriation from exports, meeting this demand.

The Ambassador said foreign investors needed to be assured of the continuity and consistency of the liberalisation policy and the fact that new measures had been put into force by means of administrative notifications without amending government laws acted as a damper.

The Ambassador pleaded for speedy formulation of the exit policy and pointed to the highly restrictive control by the government on disinvestment by foreign partners in joint ventures in India.

While it is all too easy to dismiss critical comment on conditions in India contemptuously, there can be little doubt that if foreign investment is to be wooed assiduously, we will have to meet exacting international standards and cater at least partially to what we may consider the idiosyncrasies of our foreign collaborators. The Japanese too have passed through a stage in the fifties when their products were derided as sub-standard and shoddy. That they have come out of that ordeal of fire to emerge as an economic superpower speaks as much of their doggedness to pursue goals against all odds as of their ability to improvise and adapt to internationally acceptable standards.

There is no gain saying that the past record of Japanese investment is a poor benchmark for future expectations.

The purpose of the author in writing this passage seems to be to:

Q14 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

In a disarmingly frank talk at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai, the Japanese Ambassador in India dwelt at length on issues that exercise the minds of Japanese investors when they consider investment proposals in India.

Raising the question "What comparative advantages does India offer as an investment market?", he said though labour in India is inexpensive, wage levels are offset by productivity level to a large extent.

Acknowledging that the vastness of the Indian market is a great inducement for investment in manufacturing industry, he wondered if it was justifiable to provide that overseas remittance of profit in foreign exchange be fully covered by exchange earnings as had been done. Significantly, on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to Japan, the government delinked profits repatriation from exports, meeting this demand.

The Ambassador said foreign investors needed to be assured of the continuity and consistency of the liberalisation policy and the fact that new measures had been put into force by means of administrative notifications without amending government laws acted as a damper.

The Ambassador pleaded for speedy formulation of the exit policy and pointed to the highly restrictive control by the government on disinvestment by foreign partners in joint ventures in India.

While it is all too easy to dismiss critical comment on conditions in India contemptuously, there can be little doubt that if foreign investment is to be wooed assiduously, we will have to meet exacting international standards and cater at least partially to what we may consider the idiosyncrasies of our foreign collaborators. The Japanese too have passed through a stage in the fifties when their products were derided as sub-standard and shoddy. That they have come out of that ordeal of fire to emerge as an economic superpower speaks as much of their doggedness to pursue goals against all odds as of their ability to improvise and adapt to internationally acceptable standards.

There is no gain saying that the past record of Japanese investment is a poor benchmark for future expectations.

According to the Japanese Ambassador, India offers a comparative advantage to foreign investors in terms of:

Q15 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

In a disarmingly frank talk at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai, the Japanese Ambassador in India dwelt at length on issues that exercise the minds of Japanese investors when they consider investment proposals in India.

Raising the question "What comparative advantages does India offer as an investment market?", he said though labour in India is inexpensive, wage levels are offset by productivity level to a large extent.

Acknowledging that the vastness of the Indian market is a great inducement for investment in manufacturing industry, he wondered if it was justifiable to provide that overseas remittance of profit in foreign exchange be fully covered by exchange earnings as had been done. Significantly, on the eve of the Prime Minister's visit to Japan, the government delinked profits repatriation from exports, meeting this demand.

The Ambassador said foreign investors needed to be assured of the continuity and consistency of the liberalisation policy and the fact that new measures had been put into force by means of administrative notifications without amending government laws acted as a damper.

The Ambassador pleaded for speedy formulation of the exit policy and pointed to the highly restrictive control by the government on disinvestment by foreign partners in joint ventures in India.

While it is all too easy to dismiss critical comment on conditions in India contemptuously, there can be little doubt that if foreign investment is to be wooed assiduously, we will have to meet exacting international standards and cater at least partially to what we may consider the idiosyncrasies of our foreign collaborators. The Japanese too have passed through a stage in the fifties when their products were derided as sub-standard and shoddy. That they have come out of that ordeal of fire to emerge as an economic superpower speaks as much of their doggedness to pursue goals against all odds as of their ability to improvise and adapt to internationally acceptable standards.

There is no gain saying that the past record of Japanese investment is a poor benchmark for future expectations.

For seeking more and more foreign investment, the author suggests that we should:

Q16 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates. They are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give them up as quickly as the sugar and starches as they have to be broken up in the liver and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body.

Proteins from the other class. These are the main solid parts in all living cells. They are found in milk, meat and fish and are necessary to the body to enable it to build new cells and repair old ones. For this reason, growing children need more proteins than adults. As children are much more active than adults and use more energy in comparison to their size they need a lot of energy-giving foods, the carbohydrates.

Children cannot get much of their energy from fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it. A specially fine thing about the body is that it uses the things you like better than the things you do not like, so giving truth to the old saying ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’.

In addition to these foods, the body also needs small quantities of protective substances called vitamins. Vitamins A and D are found in fat. If a child does not receive enough Vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so, his bones bend so that he may get low legs. Vitamin B is available in the husks of wheat and rice but not in the remainder of the seed. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables.

In the days of sailing ships when sailors used to go short of Vitamin C on long voyages, they developed scurvy, which is due to a weakness of the capillary blood vessels. In this disease, the slightest knock causes bleeding under the skin which shows itself as big painful bruises.

Which of the following foods are classified as carbohydrates?

Q17 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates. They are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give them up as quickly as the sugar and starches as they have to be broken up in the liver and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body.

Proteins from the other class. These are the main solid parts in all living cells. They are found in milk, meat and fish and are necessary to the body to enable it to build new cells and repair old ones. For this reason, growing children need more proteins than adults. As children are much more active than adults and use more energy in comparison to their size they need a lot of energy-giving foods, the carbohydrates.

Children cannot get much of their energy from fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it. A specially fine thing about the body is that it uses the things you like better than the things you do not like, so giving truth to the old saying ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’.

In addition to these foods, the body also needs small quantities of protective substances called vitamins. Vitamins A and D are found in fat. If a child does not receive enough Vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so, his bones bend so that he may get low legs. Vitamin B is available in the husks of wheat and rice but not in the remainder of the seed. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables.

In the days of sailing ships when sailors used to go short of Vitamin C on long voyages, they developed scurvy, which is due to a weakness of the capillary blood vessels. In this disease, the slightest knock causes bleeding under the skin which shows itself as big painful bruises.

Which of the following foods is not considered an energy-giving food?

Q18 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates. They are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give them up as quickly as the sugar and starches as they have to be broken up in the liver and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body.

Proteins from the other class. These are the main solid parts in all living cells. They are found in milk, meat and fish and are necessary to the body to enable it to build new cells and repair old ones. For this reason, growing children need more proteins than adults. As children are much more active than adults and use more energy in comparison to their size they need a lot of energy-giving foods, the carbohydrates.

Children cannot get much of their energy from fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it. A specially fine thing about the body is that it uses the things you like better than the things you do not like, so giving truth to the old saying ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’.

In addition to these foods, the body also needs small quantities of protective substances called vitamins. Vitamins A and D are found in fat. If a child does not receive enough Vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so, his bones bend so that he may get low legs. Vitamin B is available in the husks of wheat and rice but not in the remainder of the seed. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables.

In the days of sailing ships when sailors used to go short of Vitamin C on long voyages, they developed scurvy, which is due to a weakness of the capillary blood vessels. In this disease, the slightest knock causes bleeding under the skin which shows itself as big painful bruises.

Why do growing children need more proteins than adults?

Q19 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates. They are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give them up as quickly as the sugar and starches as they have to be broken up in the liver and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body.

Proteins from the other class. These are the main solid parts in all living cells. They are found in milk, meat and fish and are necessary to the body to enable it to build new cells and repair old ones. For this reason, growing children need more proteins than adults. As children are much more active than adults and use more energy in comparison to their size they need a lot of energy-giving foods, the carbohydrates.

Children cannot get much of their energy from fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it. A specially fine thing about the body is that it uses the things you like better than the things you do not like, so giving truth to the old saying ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’.

In addition to these foods, the body also needs small quantities of protective substances called vitamins. Vitamins A and D are found in fat. If a child does not receive enough Vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so, his bones bend so that he may get low legs. Vitamin B is available in the husks of wheat and rice but not in the remainder of the seed. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables.

In the days of sailing ships when sailors used to go short of Vitamin C on long voyages, they developed scurvy, which is due to a weakness of the capillary blood vessels. In this disease, the slightest knock causes bleeding under the skin which shows itself as big painful bruises.

What is the main source of Vitamin A?

Q20 Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them.

There are three main kinds of food. Sugar and starch are grouped together as carbohydrates. They are found in bread, potatoes and rice. These are mainly energy-giving foods which the muscles and other tissues use. Fats are also energy-giving foods but do not give them up as quickly as the sugar and starches as they have to be broken up in the liver and made into sugar before they can be burnt by the body.

Proteins from the other class. These are the main solid parts in all living cells. They are found in milk, meat and fish and are necessary to the body to enable it to build new cells and repair old ones. For this reason, growing children need more proteins than adults. As children are much more active than adults and use more energy in comparison to their size they need a lot of energy-giving foods, the carbohydrates.

Children cannot get much of their energy from fat because it makes them unwell if they eat too much of it. A specially fine thing about the body is that it uses the things you like better than the things you do not like, so giving truth to the old saying ‘A little of what you fancy does you good’.

In addition to these foods, the body also needs small quantities of protective substances called vitamins. Vitamins A and D are found in fat. If a child does not receive enough Vitamin D, his bones do not harden so that he begins to walk late and when he does so, his bones bend so that he may get low legs. Vitamin B is available in the husks of wheat and rice but not in the remainder of the seed. Vitamin C is found in fresh fruit and vegetables.

In the days of sailing ships when sailors used to go short of Vitamin C on long voyages, they developed scurvy, which is due to a weakness of the capillary blood vessels. In this disease, the slightest knock causes bleeding under the skin which shows itself as big painful bruises.