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Aptitude Test Topic: Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension questions are designed to test a wide range of abilities that are required in order to read and understand the kinds of prose commonly encountered in advanced studies.

Directions

Directions

This passage is accompanied by questions about its content. For each question, select the best answer among the five choices. Answer all questions on the basis of what the passage states or implies.

To give the answer click/tap the option alphabet for your answer choice. for correct answer green check and for wrong answer a red cross will appear along with a button to show explanation with or without video of the question answer.

Reading Comprehension: Main Idea Practice MCQ

Question Statement:

The natives of Australia were always few in number. Australia produced no grain of any sort naturally; neither wheat, oats, barley nor maize. It produced practically no edible fruit, excepting a few berries, and one or two nuts, the outer rind of which was eatable. There were no useful roots such as the potato, the turnip, or the yam, or the taro. The native animals were few and just barely eatable, the kangaroo, and the koala being the principal ones. In birds alone was the country well supplied, and they were more beautiful of plumage than useful as food. Even the fisheries were infrequent, for the coast line is unbroken by any great bays, and there is thus less sea frontage to Australia than to any other of the continents, and the rivers are few in number.

What is the main idea of this passage?

The coastline of Australia is rocky

Kangaroos and koalas are the best source of nutrition in Australia

There were few edible fruits in Australia

Australia has harsh living conditions that made it hard for natives to thrive

Explanation:

Correct Answer: D

The correct answer is "Australia has harsh living conditions that made it hard for natives to thrive." The other answer choices are details, but they fail to summarize and capture the larger main idea of the passage. The first sentence states that there were few natives in the country, and the rest of the passage is an explanation of the harsh living conditions in Australia. The sentence "Australia has harsh living conditions that made it hard for natives to thrive" captures all of the information in the passage, so it is the best choice.

Question: 2 Test: 3 of 18 Next Test

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You are taking Aptitude Test No. 3

Each aptitude test is comprised of 10 except the last test which might have fewer than 10 in some topics.

You are at question (MCQ) number 2 and Test Number 3 of Reading Comprehension: Main Idea. To deal with Reading Comprehension questions, you must take lesson on the subject. In case of science and Art subjects revise your text books and in case of general aptitude topics take lessons from the topic page.

The question:

The natives of Australia were always few in number. Australia produced no grain of any sort natur .... with options: The coastline of Australia is rocky, Kangaroos and koalas are the best source of nutrition in Australia, There were few edible fruits in Australia, Australia has harsh living conditions that made it hard for natives to thrive can be solved with the concepts and understanding of Reading Comprehension.