Comprensión Lectora en Inglés: Ejercicios Resueltos con Preguntas y Respuestas

Comprensión Lectora en Inglés: Ejercicios con Preguntas y Respuestas

2. A young man was called up and medically examined.

- What was the young man being medically examined for?

Because he needed a medical exam to enter the army, as his colleagues did.

- What worried him?

He was worried because the doctor didn't examine him; he just asked him things to think about and actions to perform.

- How did the doctor know that the young man could hear?

Because he heard everything he was told by the doctor.

- How did he know that he could see?

Because he pointed at the chair where he had to sit, and he did it.

- How did he know that his body was fit?

Because he performed all the actions the right way, so he was fit enough for the army.

- How did he know that he was intelligent?

Because he understood everything he was told.

3. A man had to go to court, and he sent his lawyer a present...

- Why did the man send his lawyer a present?

Because he wanted to send him a good and expensive present, possibly to get a positive sentence for his case.

- Why was the lawyer shocked?

Because he knew it was forbidden to give presents to judges to get a positive sentence for a case.

- What shocked the lawyer even more?

He was shocked because he had previously advised his client not to send a present to the judge who was hearing the case, and he really had done it.

- What had the man done?

He sent the present to the judge, but instead of writing his own name on the card, he wrote his opponent's name on it.

4. A man was telling one of his friends the secret of his happy marriage...

- What was the secret of the happy marriage?

The secret of this man's happiness was that he and his wife were in charge of doing different things.

- What sort of decisions did the wife make?

The wife made the small decisions according to her husband, and he himself made the important decisions. Her responsibility was the small decisions, such as her husband's job, the house where they lived, the types of furniture they had to buy for the house, and even where to go on holiday.

- What sort of decisions did the husband make?

According to him, he was the one in charge of the important decisions. These included who the minister of the country would be and giving his opinions on the country's foreign affairs, for example, the type and amount of help his country would give to the poor, and he would intervene in that type of issue.

5. John was the only child of a wealthy American businessman...

- Why was John able to go to school in such a beautiful way?

Because he was the only child of a rich American businessman, so his father had enough money to have a chauffeur accompany him to school every day by car.

- Why couldn't the chauffeur take John to school?

Because that day his father had to go to the airport at the same time his chauffeur usually took John to school.

- Why couldn't his mother do so?

Because she would still be in bed by the time her son had to be taken to school.

- What was the lesson that John's father wanted to teach him?

He wanted to take the chance to teach John a lesson about life, and he told him that he wouldn't be able to go to school by car; that day he had to go the way every other child goes.

- Do most children in the world go to school by car?

Of course not. In fact, most children go to school on their own, either on foot or by public bus.

6. At the entrance to a big office in London there was a book...

- Where did the person who had to draw a red line live?

The person who had to draw a red line under the last man on time, who in fact was the manager's secretary, lived above the office.

- Why did the employees have to sign the book?

Because the manager probably wanted to know who had arrived on time.

- What was a common reason for arriving late?

London is the capital city of Britain and is famous for the thick fog it has in winter, so many people who live there can't get to work on time. It is the most usual excuse for arriving late to work.

- What was the first man's reason for being late, and what did it deal with?

That precise day was very foggy and there were many people who were late for work. When they arrived at the office, they were ready to write "ditto" underneath the red line, meaning that all of them had the same excuse for being late.

- What did their "ditto" mean that morning?

Their "ditto" meant that they arrived late because of the thick fog, but they were wrong not to read what the first one had written.

- Why were they wrong?

Because they were used to writing "ditto" all the time.

7. A policeman returned to his police station...

- What report did the sergeant want to write?

He wanted to write a report on a car found in a street with no number plates and the name of the street where it was found, but he couldn't spell it correctly.

- Why did he become frustrated?

Because he wasn't able to write it properly. He tried several times but he couldn't get it right.

- Why did the policeman give up?

Because he couldn't write the name of the street correctly, and he was a bit fed up and probably embarrassed.

8. The leader of a band was finding it extremely difficult...

- What made it difficult for the leader to organize the band properly?

Because he could never get the whole group together for the rehearsals, as some of the members were always absent.

- How did he know who had been present?

Only the leader of the group knew who had been present at all the rehearsals, as he was there all the time to lead the group.

- Who had never missed a rehearsal?

The only one who never missed a rehearsal was the drummer, who seemed to be the most hard-working member of the band.

- Why had he seemed so hard-working?

As the leader said, he went to all the rehearsals because he was going to miss the day of the performance, and he added that it was the best thing he could do.