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Comprehension Exercise – 22. Read the following news item and answer the short questions that follow. Article sourced from BBC Malaysian authorities have seized more than 5,000 baby turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur airport. Two Indian men were arrested after the 5,255 red-eared …
Comprehension Exercise – 21. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. Assam temple bids adieu to turtle hatchlings (The Hindu) They are being shifted to a zoo for the greater cause of reintroducing the species into the wild. For the first time since …
Comprehension Exercise – 20. Read the following write-up and answer the questions that follow. Article sourced from BBC ‘Girish Karnad has passed away at the age of 81’, read a message on my phone from an old acquaintance on Monday morning. His death had been …
Comprehension Exercise – 19. Read the write-up given below, and answer the comprehension questions that follow. Please write full answers. Article sourced from BBC If you’ve bought a luxury leather handbag in Milan or Manhattan recently, chances are high that it was made in Sanjay …
Comprehension Exercise – 18. Study the passage and answer the questions that follow. Passage sourced from Washington Post Worldview China’s democratic dream was snuffed out as night fell on June 3, 1989. In mid-April, thousands of idealistic university students had gathered in the heart of …
Comprehension Exercise – 17. Model ISC unseen comprehension question set. Read the following write-up and answer the questions. Write-up sourced from BBC On 1 June 1999, a piece of computer software was released that changed the way we listen to music forever. [Line 1 to 2] …
Comprehension Exercise – 16. Model ISC unseen comprehension question set. Read the following write-up and answer the questions. Article taken from Washington Post After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week …
Comprehension Exercise – 15. Study the story below and answer the questions underneath. Excerpt from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had …
Comprehension Exercise – 14. Study the article below and answer the questions underneath. Write-up sourced from BBC “I was told I didn’t look like a gymnast. I was told I looked like I’d swallowed an elephant, or looked like a pig.” After a video of …
Comprehension Exercise – 13. Study the article and answer the questions that follow. This is the part of an article that appeared in BusinessLine dated 22.5.2019 With eight million tonnes of plastic dumped annually into the sea, the world is faced with the grim prospect …