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Unseen Prose Passage MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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Q1A primary teacher is preparing comprehension items on a short unseen prose passage for Class V learners. Read the assertion and the reason, then choose the option that best describes their relationship. Assertion: Vocabulary-in-context items must be answered using clues from sentences around the target word in the passage. Reason: A single English word can carry several dictionary meanings, but only one of these meanings will fit the situation that the passage describes.
Both the assertion and the reason are correct, and the reason explains the assertion. A vocabulary-in-context item asks the meaning a word carries inside one particular passage. Because a single English word can have several dictionary meanings, the learner must use the surrounding sentences to decide which meaning the passage is using; otherwise the choice becomes a guess. NCF 2005 and NCERT primary-stage guidance both build this contextual reading habit. The reason therefore provides the underlying logic for why context clues are required, making it the correct explanation of the assertion.
Q2Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "Ravi lives in a small village near Kota. On Sunday, his father brought home a young neem plant in a black polythene bag. Ravi held the plant carefully while his father dug a small pit near the courtyard wall. Ravi poured a little water into the pit. Together they placed the plant in the soil and covered the roots. His mother brought a glass of water for the plant. Ravi promised to water the neem every morning before school. He felt proud because the tree would grow with him." Which of the following statements about the passage is INCORRECT?
This is a which-incorrect item, where the learner must reject the option that the passage does not support. Options B, C, and D each match a line in the passage word for word in meaning. Option A invents a fresh detail — taking the plant in a school bag — that the passage never states. The passage only says that Ravi promised to water the plant before school, which is a different action from carrying it to school. A primary teacher candidate must reject options that add facts the text never gives.
Q3Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "There is a small kitchen garden behind our school. Children of Class IV and Class V take turns to look after it. They water the plants every morning before the assembly bell rings. Lata and her friends have grown carrots, spinach and tomatoes in the garden. The tomatoes are still green, but the spinach is ready. On Saturday, the cook used the fresh spinach in the school meal. The children felt happy that the food on their plates came from their own garden." Which option best states the main idea of this passage?
The main idea is what the entire passage talks about. Across the lines, the focus stays on a school kitchen garden, the children of Classes IV and V looking after it, the vegetables grown there, and the joy of eating food that came from their own garden. Option D speaks about almost every line: care of the garden, the children's involvement, and their happiness when garden food reached the plates. The other options either contradict the passage or focus on one detail blown out of proportion.
Q4A primary teacher is preparing simple inference items on a short unseen prose passage for Class V learners. Consider the following four statements about how a good primary-stage inference item should be designed. 1. The conclusion should be supported by clues from two or three sentences in the passage taken together. 2. The conclusion should not require any background knowledge that the passage itself does not give. 3. The conclusion should always be written word for word in one single line of the given passage. 4. The conclusion should stay close to the passage and avoid stretching one small clue too far. Which combination of statements is correct?
Statements 1, 2, and 4 each describe a real feature of a good primary-stage inference item. The conclusion must be supported by combining clues from two or three nearby sentences. It must rely on the passage alone and not on outside knowledge. It must stay close to the passage and avoid over-extension. Statement 3 is the opposite of an inference: if the conclusion is written word for word in one line, the item is a directly stated detail item, not an inference item. NCF 2005 and NCERT primary English scaffolds make this distinction clearly. Therefore the correct combination is 1, 2, and 4.
Q5Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "There is a small kitchen garden behind our school. Children of Class IV and Class V take turns to look after it. They water the plants every morning before the assembly bell rings. Lata and her friends have grown carrots, spinach and tomatoes in the garden. The tomatoes are still green, but the spinach is ready. On Saturday, the cook used the fresh spinach in the school meal. The children felt happy that the food on their plates came from their own garden." Consider the following two statements about the passage and decide which are correct. 1. The children water the plants in the kitchen garden every morning before the assembly bell rings. 2. Only Lata is responsible for looking after the entire kitchen garden behind the school by herself. Which of the following is correct?
Statement 1 matches the passage line by line: the children water the plants every morning before the assembly bell rings. Statement 2, however, is not supported by the passage. The text says children of Class IV and Class V take turns to look after the garden and that Lata is one among her friends who have grown vegetables. The passage never assigns the entire garden only to Lata. So statement 1 holds and statement 2 fails. A two-statement item asks the candidate to mark each statement against the text on its own and then choose the option that describes both correctly.
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6Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "Ravi lives in a small village near Kota. On Sunday, his father brought home a young neem plant in a black polythene bag. Ravi held the plant carefully while his father dug a small pit near the courtyard wall. Ravi poured a little water into the pit. Together they placed the plant in the soil and covered the roots. His mother brought a glass of water for the plant. Ravi promised to water the neem every morning before school. He felt proud because the tree would grow with him." Which of the following best states the main idea of this passage?
7Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "There is a small kitchen garden behind our school. Children of Class IV and Class V take turns to look after it. They water the plants every morning before the assembly bell rings. Lata and her friends have grown carrots, spinach and tomatoes in the garden. The tomatoes are still green, but the spinach is ready. On Saturday, the cook used the fresh spinach in the school meal. The children felt happy that the food on their plates came from their own garden." According to the passage, which vegetable was used in the school meal on Saturday?
8Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "There is a small kitchen garden behind our school. Children of Class IV and Class V take turns to look after it. They water the plants every morning before the assembly bell rings. Lata and her friends have grown carrots, spinach and tomatoes in the garden. The tomatoes are still green, but the spinach is ready. On Saturday, the cook used the fresh spinach in the school meal. The children felt happy that the food on their plates came from their own garden." How many distinct vegetables are named in the passage as having been grown by Lata and her friends in the kitchen garden?
9Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "Ravi lives in a small village near Kota. On Sunday, his father brought home a young neem plant in a black polythene bag. Ravi held the plant carefully while his father dug a small pit near the courtyard wall. Ravi poured a little water into the pit. Together they placed the plant in the soil and covered the roots. His mother brought a glass of water for the plant. Ravi promised to water the neem every morning before school. He felt proud because the tree would grow with him." According to the passage, who dug the small pit near the courtyard wall?
10Read the passage and answer the question that follows. "Ravi lives in a small village near Kota. On Sunday, his father brought home a young neem plant in a black polythene bag. Ravi held the plant carefully while his father dug a small pit near the courtyard wall. Ravi poured a little water into the pit. Together they placed the plant in the soil and covered the roots. His mother brought a glass of water for the plant. Ravi promised to water the neem every morning before school. He felt proud because the tree would grow with him." In the line "Ravi held the plant carefully", what does the word "carefully" suggest about Ravi's action?