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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

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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:

If you wanted to build a house, of what should you build it? In a new country, people generally use wood; but after a time wood grows expensive. Moreover, wood catches fire easily; therefore, as a country becomes more thickly settled and people live close together in cities, stone and brick are used. Large cities do not allow the building of wooden houses within a certain distance from the center, and sometimes even the use of wooden shingles is forbidden. Of late years large numbers of "concrete" or "cement" houses have been built. Our grandfathers would have opened their eyes wide at the suggestion of a house built of sand and would have felt anxious at every rainfall lest their homes should suddenly melt away. Even after thousands of concrete buildings were in use, many people still feared that they would not stand the cold winters and hot summers of the United States; but it has been proved that concrete is a success provided it is properly made.

What is the main idea of this passage?

Cement is a more practical building material than wood

Grandfathers have tremendous wisdom and should be respected

As more people moved to America, it became harder to find more housing for the growing population

Wood was easily accessible to early American settlers and made strong houses

Explanation:

Correct Answer: A

The correct answer is "Cement is a more practical building material than wood." Most of the passage emphasizes the reasons why cement is more practical than wood--the author mentions cost as well as fire safety, and discusses how these buildings have been a success. The main focus of the passage is on cement as a good replacement for wood in house-building, and not on respecting elders, difficulties finding housing for the population, or the accessibility of wood.

Question: 4 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 4 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:

If you wanted to build a house, of what should you build it? In a new country, people generally u .... with options: Cement is a more practical building material than wood, Grandfathers have tremendous wisdom and should be respected, As more people moved to America, it became harder to find more housing for the growing population, Wood was easily accessible to early American settlers and made strong houses can be solved with the concepts and understanding of Reading Comprehension.