UPSC CSAT : Reading comprehension Home Exercise – 06, PASSAGE F

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Reading comprehension Home Exercise – 06, PASSAGE F

When young, a little crab looks white unlike its parents. As it grows older, it drops its outer covering time and again and grows a new one. With each new coat it comes to look more and more like its parents, until finally it appears in a shell with its lags and claws just like its parents. When this stage has been reached, it continues to drop its covering several more times, but the change is in size, not its form. While the old shell is being made ready to come off, there is a new shell forming over the flesh of the crab underneath, but it is quite soft and flexible until the old one has been dropped.

        1. This story is mainly about-

1.       How little crabs look.
2.       The resemblance between little crabs and their parents.
3.       How often crabs change their coats.
4.       The way that crabs get bigger.

         2.  Crabs drop their coats –

1.       Throughout their lives
2.       As they get bigger
3.       To change their size but not their form.
4.       To be separate from their parents.

           3.  The form of a grown –up crab –

1.       Is just like its parents.
2.       Is like the form of a baby crab.
3.       Continues to change every time it gets a new coat.
4.       Changes every time its size changes.

         4.  The new shall-

1.       Starts to grow after the old one has been dropped.
2.       Is always hard.
3.       Is soft so that the crab can squeeze out of its old shell.
4.       Is always a copy of the young crab’s parents’ shell?


Answer:

1.       4
2.       2
3.       1
4.       3

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