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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:

Some species of sharks grow to an enormous size, often weighing from one to four thousand pounds each. The skin of the shark is rough, and is used for polishing wood, ivory, &c.; that of one species is manufactured into an article called shagreen: spectacle-cases are made of it. The white shark is the sailor's worst enemy: he has five rows of wedge-shaped teeth, which are notched like a saw: when the animal is at rest they are flat in his mouth, but when about to seize his prey they are erected by a set of muscles which join them to the jaw. His mouth is so situated under the head that he is obliged to turn himself on one side before he can grasp any thing with those enormous jaws.

What is the main idea of this passage?

Sailors have great knowledge of sharks

Sharks prey on many different kind of fish

Sharks can grasp their prey in their enormous jaws

Sharks are large, powerful, and dangerous

Explanation:

Correct Answer: D

The correct answer is "sharks are large, powerful, and dangerous." This is the main idea because it summarizes the focus of the passage as a whole. The passage talks about the size of sharks, the power of their teeth and jaws, and the danger they pose to sailors. The other answer choices are not main ideas--they are supporting details, and/or not mentioned in this passage. For those reasons, the best choice is "sharks are large, powerful, and dangerous."

Question: 3 Test: 3 of 18 Next Test

Tests

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 3 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:

Some species of sharks grow to an enormous size, often weighing from one to four thousand pounds .... with options: Sailors have great knowledge of sharks, Sharks prey on many different kind of fish, Sharks can grasp their prey in their enormous jaws, Sharks are large, powerful, and dangerous can be solved with the concepts and understanding of Reading Comprehension.