reading comprehension in hindi for ssc cgl cpo chsl mts and bank ke liye part-5

                      Reading comprehension in Hindi and English for ssc and bank

Directions- A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.


                                                        PASSAGE

Beds are the best evidence of the importance that man attaches to sleep. What deep sleeper can have gazed without envy at the monumental, spacious, four poster beds of the past? It is easy to imagine one climbing into a bed like this uninterrupted sleep. It is only in our days that beds have been debased. The first victim in our effort to save space has been, of course, the bed. Everything is done to made it less conspicuous. It folds up and disappears into the wall or performs astonishing acrobatic tricks and turns itself into it couch or an armchair. Even the bedroom as such has disappeared and has been replaced by a thing called a 'sitting-bedroom' in which you can neither comfortably sleep nor sit. What with further refinement like rubber mattresses and electric blankets it is no wonder that many of us suffer from insomnia and seek salvation from alarm clocks to wake up each morning. Psychologists, meanwhile,are busy studying our sleep habits and tell us that we cannot truly rest unless we dream. But most of us dream during the few minutes of blissful sleep that follow each rude awakening. Only our ancestors knew the true value of sleep. we have simply to remember that Shakespeare not only gave the subject a lot of attention but rated beds so highly as to make out a  will leaving his wife his 'second-best bed.

1. "It is only in our days that the bed has been debased." This means
   A) beds of higher quality are made today.
   B) during our times the bed has been given more importance.
   C) during modern times the beds have been relegated to basements.
   D) the bed has been lowered in quality and value today.

2. In order to save space we have
   A) included four-poster beds in our rooms
   B) invented the electric blanket
   C) done away with comfortable beds
   D) forced sofas to perform acrobatics

3. This passage deals with
   A) the decline in the importance attached to sleep
   B) the sleeping patterns of psychologists
   C) monuments that resemble beds in the past
   D) modern beds and rubber mattresses

4. The phrase 'less conspicuous' means:
   A) able to change without effort
   B) that which occupies less space
   C) Less obvious
   D) smaller in size

5. According to the author, we suffer from insomnia because
   A) we sleep on uncomfortable bedding.
   B) we attach more importance to wall mountable beds.
   C) we live in perpetual fear of the alarm clock.
   D) Shakespeare left his second-best bed to his wife.


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Gazed- टकटकी लगाकर देखना,  Envy- ईर्ष्या करना,   Monumental- महत्वपूर्ण,  Spacious- विशाल या बड़ा,  Uninterrupted-  लगातार,  Debase - भ्रष्ट करना ,  Conspicuous - विशिष्ट ,  Astonishing-  आश्चर्य चकित करना ,   Acrobatic- हवाई करतब ,   Insomnia- अनिद्रा रोग ,  Ancestors- पूर्वज 


1)-D        2)-C             3)-A         4)-B          5)-A

                                                  अब इसके आगे अगले भाग में                                                                                                                    

इस पोस्ट या साइट सम्बन्धित किसी भी प्रकार की सुझाव या शिकायत के लिए हमारे कमेंट बॉक्स में कमेंट जरूर करें धन्यवाद