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Creative Writing – 130 Comprehension Exercise Answer the questions at the end of the write-up The following passages were sourced from ‘The Economist’. Before his best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, Milkha Singh was under far too much … Read more
Creative Writing – 129 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passages On the day of the BBC’s open auditions, she took a bus across town. Eight women and girls sat waiting to try out, all of them poised and evidently experienced. Faqeer read … Read more
Creative Writing – 127 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passage taken from NYT In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan refugee living in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, learned that the BBC radio soap opera “New House, New Life” was … Read more
Creative Writing – 126 Comprehension Exercise Study the passages carefully and answer the questions Question Passages taken from The Washington Post Flowing from the capital, the highway begins without promise, a long, curving scar stretching across the navel of Afghanistan. Potholes. Ruts. A bridge destroyed … Read more
Creative Writing – 125 Comprehension Exercise Read the BBC article and answer the questions that follow What’s behind suicides by thousands of Indian housewives? Why do thousands of Indian housewives kill themselves every year? According to the recently released data by the government’s National Crime … Read more
Creative Writing – 124 Comprehension Exercise Read the following passages from the BBC and answer the questions underneath Passage 1 India’s capital Delhi recorded its worst November air in at least six years, according to official data. The city recorded 11 days of “severe” pollution, … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 38 Creative Writing – 97 Comprehension exercise for faster learning of English Passages Lord Byron’s grandfather was having a bad day. Scurvy had taken down his crew on the HMS Dolphin, forcing them into their hammocks where they swayed in the sticky … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 37 Creative Writing – 95 Read the text below and answer the questions that follow Write-up source: DW Across the world, climate change is sparking conflict as people struggle over dwindling resources. The fight over water could quickly escalate between India and … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 36 Creative Writing – 94 Read the text below and answer the questions that follow How Britain’s opium trade impoverished Indians [BBC] At the time when the novel, “The Sea of P0ppies’ written by Amitav Ghose is set, poppy was harvested by … Read more
Comprehension Exercise – 35 Creative Writing – 93 Read the following write-up and answer the questions that follow Continuation from Comprehension Exercise – 34 This week, he accused left-wing nongovernmental organizations of deliberately starting the fires, but later admitted that he had no evidence to … Read more