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Reading Comprehension: English Reading Comprehension Exercises with Answers, Sample Passages for Reading Comprehension Test for GRE, CAT, IELTS preparation
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Q36. > Imagine yourself in an Indian city where every home is connected to
> internet, gas, water and electricity via a smart grid. All citizens
> are linked to each other and to civic facilities in real time. The
> city uses renewable energy and its transport systems are controlled
> via central command centres to reduce traffic and pollution. In this
> city, there are no offensive smells, no noise, no dust, no heaving
> crowds. It is a smart city, the ideal city. And it exists: on paper.
> Its name is Dholera, and it is a key part of what you might call
> India’s 21st-century utopian urban experiment. Economists argue that
> the country desperately needs new cities: its urban population is
> expected to rise from 28% in 2001 to almost 36% in 2026, bringing the
> total number of people living in its cities and urban regions to 590
> million.
>
> To accommodate this growth, suggests a McKinsey report, India will
> need 20 to 30 new cities in the next decade alone. The state’s
> solution has been to push for 24 new “smart cities” along high-speed
> regional transport networks. Dholera is one of these. At 903 sq km, it
> would be twice the size of Mumbai. It is planned in the “influence
> zone” of a mega-infrastructure project, the Delhi-Mumbai industrial
> corridor, which will link India’s political capital Delhi with its
> economic capital Mumbai, and therefore, so the thinking goes, spur
> economic growth in the region. The Dholera that actually exists,
> however, is something else entirely. A casual visitor might see the
> small sign along the highway pointing in the direction of Dholera. But
> they might also, if they take the turn-off, be disappointed: for
> several months of the year, they will find a vast, low-lying area,
> mostly submerged under seawater. The rest of the year, they will see
> the classic cracked-earth look of salt flats. Dotting this landscape
> are farm buildings, village huts and small reservoirs storing
> rainwater that is used to irrigate fields of cumin, millet, wheat and
> cotton. They will see a vast landscape with about 40,000 people living
> in an ecological region that loses 1cm of its coastline to the sea
> every day. They might then understand that Dholera is not yet a
> “place”: it is still a terrain of possibilities.
>
> P M Modi has declared Dholera and other proposed smart cities in the
> region to be “building blocks of a global Gujarat”, envisioned on the
> lines of Shanghai. And to make sure it happens, he shepherded in a new
> Special Investment Region (SIR) Act in March 2009. The act gives more
> power to the state to acquire land for building smart cities like
> Dholera. Another scenario is that Dholera is significantly downsized
> due to a lack of investors and stripped of its “smart” credentials, to
> become just another industrial township along the Delhi-Mumbai
> corridor. It becomes one of those backdoor cities to India’s
> urbanisation and economic growth, where polluting industries are
> located to keep them away from Delhi and Mumbai. It remains, in other
> words, a far cry from the smart city presented in the glossy marketing
> images.
According to the author, smart city project is imagined on the model of-
- Singapore
- Shanghai
- Japan
- Russia
- None of these.
Solution : Shanghai
Q37. > India is a great book producing nation and has a vibrant world of
> book publishing spread throughout the vast country in a number of
> modern languages most of which have their roots in Sanskrit, the
> mother of Indian languages. In terms of numbers, there are more than
> 16,000 publishers in India publishing 90,000 titles annually in 24
> languages, out of which 18 are highly developed, to fulfill the needs
> of this multilingual nation. These languages have a galaxy of good
> authors, their own publishers and readers of books within their own
> area as well as spread out in the entire country. Today Indian
> publishing is one of the greatest in the world and can be counted
> among the first seven publishing nations.
>
> We are the third largest publishers of English language Books after
> the US and UK. India is the third biggest market for English
> publications with almost 12,000 publishers that publish around 90,000
> titles a year in more than 18 languages. India’s main publishing is in
> the Indian languages. In India, every year a world level Book fair is
> held in New Delhi, which is India’s oldest book fair. Delhi Book Fair
> is playing a pivotal role in reiterating the might of the pen and the
> printed word and has come to be recognized as the biggest annual
> cultural event and book bonanza keenly awaited by students, teachers,
> scholars, authors, intellectuals, librarians and book lovers. First
> New Delhi World Book Fair was held in around 6790 sq meter area with
> 200 participants from March 18 to April 4, 1972. It was inaugurated by
> Sh VV Giri President of India. This biennial event takes place in
> early February, and is organised by the National Book Trust, India
> (NBT). Delhi Book Fair has evolved over the years as a highly popular
> conduit to the world of books and publishers and distributors. The
> ever increasing numbers of visitors and exhibitors speaks volumes of
> its success. The fair provides a unique platform for
> business-to-business transactions, establishing new contacts, entering
> into co-publishing arrangements, translation and copyright
> arrangements, reprinting of old and rare books. The visitor profile at
> the fair includes national and International publishers, librarians,
> researchers, academicians, writers, students and book lovers.
> Publishers also introduced “e-Books” in this fair. The focus is being
> given especially keeping in mind the increasing number of IT-savvy
> younger generation with a penchant for internet, mobile phones and
> other reader-friendly digital gizmos.
>
> E-books and e-publishing both have their obvious advantages though
> authors in India have only just begun to realise the immense benefits
> digital technology can be of in this field. Also, with the country
> being the third biggest publisher — after the US and UK — the
> potential in this field is immense and the response too has been quite
> encouraging so far with a lot of publishers already showing interest
> in e-publishing. E-publishing is a boon for both established and
> wannabe writers as it is cost effective and cuts down the time it take
> for a book to reach markets to about a fourth of what it would have
> taken had it been left to publishers to do the job. Other benefits
> include authors now have a world wide audience to their book which
> means better business while debugging or carrying out revisions too is
> a lot less hazardous. Another interesting development to have occurred
> in recent times is the launch of Amazon e-book store in the country as
> well as the availability of the Kindle range of e-book readers.
> Needless to say, a direct fallout of the renewed push that e-book are
> getting is increased sale of e-book readers and tablet devices.
What do you understand by 'E-books' ?
- An electronic version of only online magazines and books of foreign writers.
- An electronic version of a printed book.
- A shortened form of a printed book.
- Both 2 and 3
- None of these
Solution : An electronic version of a printed book.
Q38. > India is a great book producing nation and has a vibrant world of book
> publishing spread throughout the vast country in a number of modern
> languages most of which have their roots in Sanskrit, the mother of
> Indian languages. In terms of numbers, there are more than 16,000
> publishers in India publishing 90,000 titles annually in 24 languages,
> out of which 18 are highly developed, to fulfill the needs of this
> multilingual nation. These languages have a galaxy of good authors,
> their own publishers and readers of books within their own area as
> well as spread out in the entire country. Today Indian publishing is
> one of the greatest in the world and can be counted among the first
> seven publishing nations.
>
> We are the third largest publishers of English language Books after
> the US and UK. India is the third biggest market for English
> publications with almost 12,000 publishers that publish around 90,000
> titles a year in more than 18 languages. India’s main publishing is in
> the Indian languages. In India, every year a world level Book fair is
> held in New Delhi, which is India’s oldest book fair. Delhi Book Fair
> is playing a pivotal role in reiterating the might of the pen and the
> printed word and has come to be recognized as the biggest annual
> cultural event and book bonanza keenly awaited by students, teachers,
> scholars, authors, intellectuals, librarians and book lovers. First
> New Delhi World Book Fair was held in around 6790 sq meter area with
> 200 participants from March 18 to April 4, 1972. It was inaugurated by
> Sh VV Giri President of India. This biennial event takes place in
> early February, and is organised by the National Book Trust, India
> (NBT). Delhi Book Fair has evolved over the years as a highly popular
> conduit to the world of books and publishers and distributors. The
> ever increasing numbers of visitors and exhibitors speaks volumes of
> its success. The fair provides a unique platform for
> business-to-business transactions, establishing new contacts, entering
> into co-publishing arrangements, translation and copyright
> arrangements, reprinting of old and rare books. The visitor profile at
> the fair includes national and International publishers, librarians,
> researchers, academicians, writers, students and book lovers.
> Publishers also introduced “e-Books” in this fair. The focus is being
> given especially keeping in mind the increasing number of IT-savvy
> younger generation with a penchant for internet, mobile phones and
> other reader-friendly digital gizmos.
>
> E-books and e-publishing both have their obvious advantages though
> authors in India have only just begun to realise the immense benefits
> digital technology can be of in this field. Also, with the country
> being the third biggest publisher — after the US and UK — the
> potential in this field is immense and the response too has been quite
> encouraging so far with a lot of publishers already showing interest
> in e-publishing. E-publishing is a boon for both established and
> wannabe writers as it is cost effective and cuts down the time it take
> for a book to reach markets to about a fourth of what it would have
> taken had it been left to publishers to do the job. Other benefits
> include authors now have a world wide audience to their book which
> means better business while debugging or carrying out revisions too is
> a lot less hazardous. Another interesting development to have occurred
> in recent times is the launch of Amazon e-book store in the country as
> well as the availability of the Kindle range of e-book readers.
> Needless to say, a direct fallout of the renewed push that e-book are
> getting is increased sale of e-book readers and tablet devices.
In which of the following language are India's main epics available ?
- Hindi
- Urdu
- Sanskrit
- Bilingual i.e in Hindi and English
- None of these
Solution : Sanskrit
Q39. > Imagine yourself in an Indian city where every home is connected to
> internet, gas, water and electricity via a smart grid. All citizens
> are linked to each other and to civic facilities in real time. The
> city uses renewable energy and its transport systems are controlled
> via central command centres to reduce traffic and pollution. In this
> city, there are no offensive smells, no noise, no dust, no heaving
> crowds. It is a smart city, the ideal city. And it exists: on paper.
> Its name is Dholera, and it is a key part of what you might call
> India’s 21st-century utopian urban experiment. Economists argue that
> the country desperately needs new cities: its urban population is
> expected to rise from 28% in 2001 to almost 36% in 2026, bringing the
> total number of people living in its cities and urban regions to 590
> million.
>
> To accommodate this growth, suggests a McKinsey report, India will
> need 20 to 30 new cities in the next decade alone. The state’s
> solution has been to push for 24 new “smart cities” along high-speed
> regional transport networks. Dholera is one of these. At 903 sq km, it
> would be twice the size of Mumbai. It is planned in the “influence
> zone” of a mega-infrastructure project, the Delhi-Mumbai industrial
> corridor, which will link India’s political capital Delhi with its
> economic capital Mumbai, and therefore, so the thinking goes, spur
> economic growth in the region. The Dholera that actually exists,
> however, is something else entirely. A casual visitor might see the
> small sign along the highway pointing in the direction of Dholera. But
> they might also, if they take the turn-off, be disappointed: for
> several months of the year, they will find a vast, low-lying area,
> mostly submerged under seawater. The rest of the year, they will see
> the classic cracked-earth look of salt flats. Dotting this landscape
> are farm buildings, village huts and small reservoirs storing
> rainwater that is used to irrigate fields of cumin, millet, wheat and
> cotton. They will see a vast landscape with about 40,000 people living
> in an ecological region that loses 1cm of its coastline to the sea
> every day. They might then understand that Dholera is not yet a
> “place”: it is still a terrain of possibilities.
>
> P M Modi has declared Dholera and other proposed smart cities in the
> region to be “building blocks of a global Gujarat”, envisioned on the
> lines of Shanghai. And to make sure it happens, he shepherded in a new
> Special Investment Region (SIR) Act in March 2009. The act gives more
> power to the state to acquire land for building smart cities like
> Dholera. Another scenario is that Dholera is significantly downsized
> due to a lack of investors and stripped of its “smart” credentials, to
> become just another industrial township along the Delhi-Mumbai
> corridor. It becomes one of those backdoor cities to India’s
> urbanisation and economic growth, where polluting industries are
> located to keep them away from Delhi and Mumbai. It remains, in other
> words, a far cry from the smart city presented in the glossy marketing
> images.
According to the passage, which of the following is/are true about the features of smart cities in India?
- A smart city is an urban region that is highly advanced terms of overall infrastructure, sustainable real estate, communication and market viability.
- It is a city where information technology is the principal infrastructure and the basis for providing essential services to residents.
- There are many technological platform involved including automated sensor networks and data centres.
- All of the above
- None of these
Solution : All of the above
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Q40. > Imagine yourself in an Indian city where every home is connected to
> internet, gas, water and electricity via a smart grid. All citizens
> are linked to each other and to civic facilities in real time. The
> city uses renewable energy and its transport systems are controlled
> via central command centres to reduce traffic and pollution. In this
> city, there are no offensive smells, no noise, no dust, no heaving
> crowds. It is a smart city, the ideal city. And it exists: on paper.
> Its name is Dholera, and it is a key part of what you might call
> India’s 21st-century utopian urban experiment. Economists argue that
> the country desperately needs new cities: its urban population is
> expected to rise from 28% in 2001 to almost 36% in 2026, bringing the
> total number of people living in its cities and urban regions to 590
> million.
>
> To accommodate this growth, suggests a McKinsey report, India will
> need 20 to 30 new cities in the next decade alone. The state’s
> solution has been to push for 24 new “smart cities” along high-speed
> regional transport networks. Dholera is one of these. At 903 sq km, it
> would be twice the size of Mumbai. It is planned in the “influence
> zone” of a mega-infrastructure project, the Delhi-Mumbai industrial
> corridor, which will link India’s political capital Delhi with its
> economic capital Mumbai, and therefore, so the thinking goes, spur
> economic growth in the region. The Dholera that actually exists,
> however, is something else entirely. A casual visitor might see the
> small sign along the highway pointing in the direction of Dholera. But
> they might also, if they take the turn-off, be disappointed: for
> several months of the year, they will find a vast, low-lying area,
> mostly submerged under seawater. The rest of the year, they will see
> the classic cracked-earth look of salt flats. Dotting this landscape
> are farm buildings, village huts and small reservoirs storing
> rainwater that is used to irrigate fields of cumin, millet, wheat and
> cotton. They will see a vast landscape with about 40,000 people living
> in an ecological region that loses 1cm of its coastline to the sea
> every day. They might then understand that Dholera is not yet a
> “place”: it is still a terrain of possibilities.
>
> P M Modi has declared Dholera and other proposed smart cities in the
> region to be “building blocks of a global Gujarat”, envisioned on the
> lines of Shanghai. And to make sure it happens, he shepherded in a new
> Special Investment Region (SIR) Act in March 2009. The act gives more
> power to the state to acquire land for building smart cities like
> Dholera. Another scenario is that Dholera is significantly downsized
> due to a lack of investors and stripped of its “smart” credentials, to
> become just another industrial township along the Delhi-Mumbai
> corridor. It becomes one of those backdoor cities to India’s
> urbanisation and economic growth, where polluting industries are
> located to keep them away from Delhi and Mumbai. It remains, in other
> words, a far cry from the smart city presented in the glossy marketing
> images.
What does the author mean by the term 'Influence Zone'.
- The maximum extension of the area of influenced.
- It will depend on the particular area.
- The area which is covered by greenery.
- An ellipse inscribed in the cross section
- None of these
Solution : The maximum extension of the area of influenced.
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