- Reading comprehension questions involve reading of a passage of about 300 – 600 words and deriving answers from the passage content..
- RCs forms an important part of the English Language section. This section mainly focuses on to check the ability to understand the language and the underlying concept of the passage. The main focus should be to have a good command over the language as well as time management.
- Make sure you attempt these passage on a regular basis and with complete seriousness.
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RC Passage
Something strange haunts the cultural landscape of America. Movie makers and television producers have Become the most powerful, though perhaps not the most careful historians. It seems fair to say more people are getting their history or what they think is history, from the movies these days than from the standard history books. The phenomenon is probably unavoidable, yet, if the history as presented by the movies turns out to be a muddy blur of fantasy and fact, the consequences cannot be good. In the 16th Century, Francis Bacon said that history makes men wise. It follows that bad history, trivialized history, history distorted and sensationalised, can make them foolish. There is indeed something disconcerting about the tendency of today’s movies-as-history to construct multi coloured and sound-tracked edifices of entertainment on the slender foundations of what appear to be actual events.
