Passages For Comprehension
I – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
My favourite activity is climbing trees. Just outside our house, there is a mango tree which I love to go up. Its branches spread out, so it is simple to climb up the tree, and I can sit comfortably in the fork of two branches. My mother tells me it is not sensible for girls to climb trees, but one afternoon she climbed up too, and both of us sat there talking and eating raw mangoes.
Questions:
1. Who does ‘My’ refer to?
2. Where is the mango tree?
3. Find a word from the above passage that means the same as to ‘right’.
II – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
If I had a huge amount of money I would travel and travel. I want to see the mountains of New Zealand because they looked beautiful in a magazine picture. I wish I could sail down the Amazon River in South America on a raft.
Questions:
1. What does he want to see?
2. What is a raft?
3. Find the word in the above passage that means opposite to ‘small’.
III – Passage for comprehension
Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions given below:
When I grow up, I am going to be the Prime Minister of India. People always laugh when I say that, but I am sure that I will do it. Everyone in my class asks me what to do when they have a problem, and my teacher always trusts me when something needs to be done in school.
Questions:
1. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
2. What is she going to be?
3. Find a word from the above passage that means the same as ‘have faith in’.
Suggested Answers Of Passages
Answers: Passage I
1. ‘My’ refers to Radha.
2. The mango tree is just outside Radha’s house.
3. Sensible.
Answers: Passage II
1. He wants to see the mountains of New Zealand.
2. A raft is a boat.
3. Huge.
Answers: Passage III
1. ‘I’ refers to Dolma.
2. She is going to be the Prime Minister of India.
3. Trust.