READING COMPREHENSION SET-1
Directions (1-7): A passage has been given below. Few words and sentences have been highlighted for you to answer the questions better. Read the same carefully and answer the questions that follow
As the southwest monsoon continues to elude Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, it is wreaking havoc in parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala, flood waters swept through the streets of Bhagsu Nag village, damaging parked vehicles. (I) The (A)instructed administration has (B)district tourists to (C) postpone their visit to Dharamsala in view of the (D)heavy rains. Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday to take stock of the situation arising due to the floods in several districts of the state and assured him all possible help from the Centre. In Shimla, the national highway near Jhakri in the Rampur area has been blocked due to the heavy downpour. Visuals also show an overflowing Manjhi river in Dharamshala, wiping away nearly 10 shops in the area. The state has been reeling under the threat of a surge in corona virus cases as tourists flock to popular hill stations like Manali and Shimla, and even lesser known retreats at Naggar and Jibhi. Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police Sanjay Kundu had quipped on Saturday that the prolonged work from home (WFH) culture has turned into ‘work from Himachal Pradesh.’ States such as Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, too, witnessed torrential rain. Visuals from ANI show debris from a landslide blocking the Rishikesh-Badrinath national highway number 7 near Chamoli. In a separate incident, three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed at a village in Uttarakhand after their house collapsed in a landslide caused due to heavy rains. Whereas, restoration work is underway in the Watlar area of Kashmir’s Ganderbal district after a heavy rainfall caused damage to the roads, ANI further reported. Meanwhile, the IMD has said that there are favourable conditions for the advance of the Southwest Monsoon over Delhi, some parts of west Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan today. The weather agency said conditions are becoming favourable for the advance of monsoon over the remaining parts of the country during the next 48 hours. The monsoon has also claimed the lives of twenty eight people in separate incidents of lightning in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
Question 1
Unstoppable
Never ending
Abridge
Curtail
Prolonged means something that is insanely stretching over unlimited time or something that is a never ending process. The line talks about the work-from-home culture that has now been going on for a long… The synonym out of the possible options is (b) ie; never ending. Abridge and Curtail will be opposites to prolonged as they mean to control, cut or shorten so (c) and (d) would be ruled out.
Question 2
DBAC
BDAC
BACD
CABD
Answer: C The sentence after rearrangement would be: The district administration has instructed tourists to postpone their visit to Dharamsala in view of the heavy rains. The correct sequence should be the one in option (c) where B and A interchange to make the sentence meaningful.
Question 3
Delhi
Uttarakhand
Haryana
All except (b)
The first line of the passage says that: As the southwest monsoon continues to elude Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, it is wreaking havoc in parts of Himachal Pradesh andUttarakhand. Elude means to avoid something or escape from something So, the above three states could escape as the monsoon avoided them but has been having severe effects in the mountain states of HP and UK. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Question 4
10
7
16
None of the above
Read the last line of the passage carefully. That says: The monsoon has also claimed the lives of twenty eight people in separate incidents of lightning in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. So, the answer is option (d)
Question 5
Parts of Himachal and Uttarakhand have been facing severe consequences of the heavy monsoons
The NH7 has been blocked because of the debris caused due to the landslides
Restoration work is underway in the Watlar area of Kashmir’s Gangabal district
All except (c)
Both (a) and (b) can be found in the passage but (c) is incorrect as; the mentioned place where the restoration in Kashmir has been going on is not Gangabal but Ganderbal. So, (d) is the correct option.
Question 6
Many people have turned Work from Home into Work From Himachal
Floods have topped the charts while the spread of Covid cases in the state was already being fought
NH 7 has been closed causing a huge disruption of traffic movement harming the logistics
The Bhagsu Nag village has not been able to get relief from the number of COVID cases
Answer: B The lines below provide the best hint to the answer: Visuals also show an overflowing Manjhi river in Dharamshala, wiping away nearly 10 shops in the area. The state has been reeling under the threat of a surge in corona virus cases as tourists flock to popular hill stations like Manali and Shimla, and even lesser known retreats at Naggar and Jibhi. Option (b) best summarises the sentence above.
Question 7
The IMD has said that there are unfavourable conditions
There is a surge of the Southwest Monsoon over Chamoli,
Some parts of west Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Chamoli,
None of the above
Taking cue from the lines below: Meanwhile, the IMD has said that there are favourable conditions for the advance of the Southwest Monsoon over Delhi, some parts of west Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan today. None of the statements given fits our answer as the statements given have been changed. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer
