Test: Reading Comprehension - 2 - Software Development MCQ

The correct answer is 'Many painting spaces were difficult to reach.'

Key Points

• Let's refer to the part of the passage which states 'Early artists drawing these animals accomplished a monumental difficult task. They did not limit themselves to the easily accessible walls but carried their painting materials to spaces that required climbing steep walls or crawling into narrow passages in the Lascaux complex.'
  • ​Steep means '(of a slope) rising or falling at a sharp angle'.
    • It means climbing such steep walls was a difficult task.
  • Narrow passage means 'small in breadth, esp. in comparison to length'.
    • The passages were so small in breadth that the artists had to crawl into them.
• From the above explanation, it can be inferred that painting inside the Lascaux complex a difficult task because many painting spaces were difficult to reach.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 4).

The correct answer is 'artists'.

Key Points

• Let's refer to the passage which states, 'Early artists drawing these animals accomplished a monumental difficult task. They did not limit themselves to the easily accessible walls......'
  • 'They' is a pronoun which replaces nouns to avoid repetition. 
  • In the passage, underlined 'they' is referring to 'artists'. The previous sentence talks about early artists who accomplished  a difficult task.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 2).

The correct answer is 'Horses'.

Key Points

• Let's refer to the passage which states 'The scenes show people hunting animals , such as bison or wild cats. Other images depict birds and, most noticeably, horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images, by far outnumbering all other animals.'
  • In the above part of the passage, it's mentioned that the more that 300 images of horses appear outnumbering all other animals.
  • Outnumber means 'to be greater in number than someone or something'.
• From the above explanation, it's clear that 'Horses' appear most often on the cave walls.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 3).

The correct answer is 'notices'.

Key Points

• Let's take a look at the meaning of the marked option: 
  • Notices means 'to see or become conscious of something or someone'.
    • Ex: I noticed a crack in the ceiling.
  • Pays heed to means 'to pay attention to'.
• It's clear that 'notices' is closed in meaning to 'pays heed to'.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 3).

Additional Information 

• Discovers: to find information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time
• Watches: to look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving
• Buys: to get something by paying money for it:

The correct answer is 'adverb'.

Key Points 

• Let's discuss the marked option first; i.e. 'Adverb':
  • Adverbs are used to add more information about a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a clause or a whole sentence.
    • E.g. - very tall (modifying adjective 'tall'), ended too quickly (modifying another adverb 'quickly), Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella (modifying the whole sentence).
• However (adverb): despite what has been said earlier
  • Ex: This is one possible solution to the problem. However, there are others. ('however' is modifying the whole clause 'This is one possible solution to the problem')
• Similarly, in the given question sentence, 'however' adds information to the previous sentence 'Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them'.
• Therefore, the correct part of speech of the asked word is 'Adverb'.

Option 3) is the correct answer.

Additional Information 

• Adjectives are the words that qualify a noun or a pronoun. 
  • Ex: The movie was really good. ('good' is qualifying the noun 'movie')
• ​A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. Some examples of prepositions are words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to."
• Exclamation: a short sound, word or phrase that you say suddenly because of a strong emotion, pain, etc.

The correct answer is 'It has a large number of caves'.

Key Points

• Let's refer to the passage which states 'When another old cave is discovered in the South France, it is not usually news. Rather, it is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to​ them.'
  • ​It can be inferred that discoveries of caves in the South France is very frequent and people don't these consider these discoveries special now. This indicates there are a large number of caves in the South France.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 2).

The correct answer is 'Visitors were prohibited from entering.'

Key Points

• Let's refer to the passage which state 'To prevent further damage, the site was closed to tourists in 1963, 23 years after it was discovered.'
  • ​In the highlighted portion, 'the site' refers to 'Lascaux caves'.
  • Since many of the images have been deteriorated, the site was closed to tourists to prevent further damage in 1963.
• From the above explanation it's clear that in 1963, visitors were prohibited from entering the Lascaux caves.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 1).

The correct answer is 'Verb in continuous form'.

Key Points

• 'Hunting' is formed by 'hunt + ing' where 'hunt' is the root form of the verb.
  • Hunt means 'to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit'.
• To obtain continuous form of a verb we suffix 'ing'. It shows an action that is, was, or will be in progress at a certain time.
• In sentence 'The scenes show people hunting animals' means that in the scenes people are in continuous process of hunting.
• It's clear that 'hunting' is used as a verb in continuous form.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 1).

The correct answer is 'light'.

Key Points

• Let's refer to the passage which states 'Although they are not out in the open air, where natural light would have destroyed them long ago.'
  • ​'They' refers to 'paintings'. ​​
  • We can infer that paintings are not in the open air; i.e. out of the reach of light.
  • It's clear that 'light' didn't cause damage to the paintings.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 4).

Additional Information

• Let's refer to the passage which states 'Unfortunately, the paintings have been exposed to the destructive action of water and temperature changes, which easily wear the images away. Because the Lascaux caves have many entrances, air movement has also damaged the images inside.'
• It's clear that 'water', temperature changes' and 'air movement' are the causes of damage to the paintings.

The correct answer is 'show'.

Key Points

• Depict means 'to represent or show something in a picture or story'.
  • Ex: Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
• Marked option 'Show' means 'to make it possible for something to be seen'.
  • Ex: Let me show you this new book I've just bought.
• It's clear that 'Show' is the closest in meaning to 'Depict'.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 1).

Additional Information

• Draw: to make a picture of something or someone with a pencil or pen
• Hunt: to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit
• Count: to say numbers one after the other in order, or to calculate the number of people or things in a group