English Comprehension No.2
The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would speed gradually throughout the world by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Question: The author feels sad about the later part to do his life because
Answer: The world had not become prosperous
Answer: He was nostalgic about his childhood
Answer: The world was painfully disturbed during that period of time
Answer: The author had not won any further victories
Ans:C
Question: The victories of the past
Answer: Filled men with a sense of pessimism
Answer: Provide to be temporary events
Answer: Ended cruelty, tyranny, and injustice
Answer: Brought permanent peace and security
Ans: B
Question: The world definitive as used in the passage means
Answer: Incomplete
Answer: Defined
Answer: Granted
Answer: Victorian
Ans:D
Question: During the Victorian age people believed that
Answer: There would be unlimited freedom
Answer: Strife would increase
Answer: Peace would prevail and happiness would engulf the whole world
Answer: Wars would be fought on a bigger scale
Ans:C
Question: A brief interlude between past and future barbarism can be interpreted as
Answer: A dramatic performance during wars
Answer: An interval between cruel wars
Answer: A short space of time between two great events
Answer: A short period of time between past and future acts of savagery
Ans:D