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🌊 Reading Comprehension Practice Exercise 2 (Tsunamis)Instructions:

Afza Amir

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer from the options.

Passage:
Sea waves can cause serious damage when they hit the land. Even under a clear sky and calm sea, a huge wall of water can suddenly appear—20 or 30 feet high—destroying homes and putting lives at risk.

These waves often form after a strong underwater earthquake. The earthquake creates a shock in the deep ocean, which moves upward and creates a giant swell on the surface. These ocean swells can be up to a mile wide and rise to tens of feet in height.

People didn’t start to address the danger of tsunamis until after World War II. These waves move towards land at very high speeds—hundreds of miles per hour—and hit with great force.

Questions:

One thing about these waves is that they:
(A) are formed by deep swells
(B) often strike during clear weather
(C) appear in cold temperatures
(D) form in circular shapes
✅ Correct answer: (B) often strike during clear weather

These dangerous waves are caused by:
(A) storms
(B) time changes
(C) underwater earthquakes
(D) ocean currents
✅ Correct answer: (C) underwater earthquakes

These waves are usually about how wide?
(A) one mile
(B) five miles
(C) five feet
(D) ten feet
✅ Correct answer: (A) one mile

People only started taking action against tsunamis:
(A) after finding a solution
(B) after many people died
(C) after major destruction
(D) after World War II
✅ Correct answer: (D) after World War II

How fast do these waves move?
(A) 1 kilometer per hour
(B) 50 miles per hour
(C) 100 miles per hour
(D) more than 100 miles per hour
✅ Correct answer: (D) more than 100 miles per hour

📘 Reading Comprehension Practice Exercise 1

Afza Amir

Instructions:

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for each question.

Passage:
Unemployment is a key sign of a weak economy and lost productivity. But it doesn’t affect everyone equally. Young people, women, unskilled and semi-skilled workers, Black individuals, older people, and those living in rural areas often suffer more from unemployment.

Unemployment among these groups brings big costs to society—not just in lost work hours or income, but also in broken careers and a rise in youth crime.

There’s another cost, too. Long-term unemployment leads workers to push for shorter work hours (“share-the-work”) and resist new technologies. For businesses, weak markets mean raising prices to cover costs and asking the government to protect them from foreign competition

Questions:

Unemployment is a sign of:
(A) the employment rate
(B) economic slack and lost output
(C) diminished resources
(D) overuse of economic capacity
✅ Correct answer: (B) economic slack and lost output

According to the passage, unemployment does not affect which group the most?
(A) unskilled workers
(B) semi-skilled workers
(C) Black people
(D) white middle class
✅ Correct answer: (D) white middle class

One cost of unemployment that is not mentioned is:
(A) disruption of careers
(B) idleness
(C) the death rate
(D) lost income
✅ Correct answer: (C) the death rate

When unemployment is serious, workers demand:
(A) more jobs with shorter hours
(B) “no fire” rules
(C) higher wages
(D) cutting costs
✅ Correct answer: (A) more jobs with shorter hours

How do businesses usually react during a recession?
(A) Use restrictive practices
(B) Ask for protection from imports
(C) Ask for government help
(D) Increase unemployment benefits
✅ Correct answer: (B) protection against imports