Reading Comprehension
UPCAT Reading Comprehension practice questions
35 free UPCAT Reading Comprehension practice questions with the correct answer and a worked explanation for every item. Read through them or run the section as a shuffled quiz.
Instructions: Read each passage, then answer the questions that follow. Base your answers only on what the passage states or implies. As in the actual UPCAT, this section includes passages in both English and Filipino.
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- 1Which statement best expresses the main idea of the passage?
Answer: D. Modernizing the fleet is justified, but the burden of paying for it is being misassigned.Main Idea - 2According to the passage, how do most jeepney drivers relate to the vehicles they operate?
Answer: A. They rent them daily and keep the fares left after a fixed payment.Detail - 3The author mentions that financing is "calculated against a stable monthly salary" mainly to suggest that
Answer: B. the repayment terms assume an income pattern drivers do not haveInference - 4As used in the final paragraph, "relocated" most nearly means
Answer: D. shifted onto a different groupVocabulary in Context - 5The author's attitude toward fleet modernization is best described as
Answer: C. supportive of the goal but critical of how the cost is distributedTone And Purpose - 6According to the passage, what gives a healthy reef its color?
Answer: A. The zooxanthellae living in the coral's tissuesDetail - 7The passage as a whole is primarily concerned with
Answer: B. explaining what bleaching is and why its increasing frequency mattersMain Idea - 8The passage suggests that a reef struck by severe bleaching in two consecutive years would most likely
Answer: C. fare worse than one struck once, because recovery time was insufficientInference - 9As used in the last paragraph, "interval" most nearly means
Answer: D. the time between successive eventsVocabulary in Context - 10Which best describes the function of the third paragraph?
Answer: B. It qualifies the preceding account by noting that bleaching is survivable under certain conditions.Structure - 11What does Delia's mother bring to the terminal?
Answer: D. Two bags of food, still warmDetail - 12The mother's remark that "It took me eleven minutes" most strongly implies that she
Answer: C. once had a similar conversation with her own mother and already understands Delia's positionInference - 13Why had Delia planned to speak at the terminal specifically?
Answer: C. She expected the noise to soften the effect of her words.Inference - 14The mood of the passage is best described as
Answer: A. tender and quietly tenseTone And Purpose - 15The final sentence is most significant because it shows that
Answer: C. her mother's response has undone the preparation Delia relied onInference - 16According to the passage, trees reduce district temperature in two ways. One is by blocking radiation. What is the other?
Answer: B. They release water that carries heat away as it evaporates.Detail - 17The passage reports that raising canopy cover from ten to thirty percent lowers peak afternoon temperature by roughly
Answer: B. two to three degreesDetail - 18The passage implies that the nighttime cooling effect of trees deserves attention because
Answer: B. sustained overnight heat is what drives heat-related hospital admissionsInference - 19Which statement best captures the passage's overall point?
Answer: A. Urban heat is unevenly distributed, and the districts most exposed to it have the least tree cover.Main Idea - 20Which reason does the passage give for the lower canopy cover in newer settlements?
Answer: A. They were built at higher density with no space reserved for planting.Inference - 21The main claim of the passage is that
Answer: C. both kinds of evidence are shaped by the purposes behind them, so each should be judged by what it was made to recordMain Idea - 22According to the passage, when does a village typically appear in the written archive?
Answer: D. When it becomes a fiscal or legal matter requiring attentionDetail - 23The author acknowledges that oral tradition is "revised in transmission" chiefly in order to
Answer: B. concede a genuine weakness before showing that written sources share itStructure - 24As used in the second paragraph, "narrower" most nearly means
Answer: A. more limited in scopeVocabulary in Context - 25Based on the passage, a historian studying why a settlement relocated would be best advised to
Answer: D. consult oral tradition, which the passage identifies as covering such mattersInference - 26According to the passage, what happens in the hippocampus during deep sleep?
Answer: C. It replays sequences from the day at accelerated speed.Detail - 27The passage is chiefly concerned with arguing that
Answer: B. sleep is an active stage of learning rather than a pause between periods of itMain Idea - 28Based on the passage, why is an all-night study session before an exam a poor strategy?
Answer: A. It leaves no sleep in which consolidation could take place.Inference - 29The passage says the sorting of memories during sleep favors material that
Answer: D. the brain has reason to treat as importantDetail - 30As used in the first paragraph, "untenable" most nearly means
Answer: A. impossible to defendVocabulary in Context - 31Ano ang pangunahing diwa ng teksto?
Answer: B. Hindi naglaho ang bayanihan; lumilitaw lamang ito kapag may pangangailangan.Main Idea - 32Batay sa teksto, bakit hindi kaagad nakarating ang tulong mula sa labas?
Answer: C. Nabarahan ng mga nabuwal na puno ang tanging daan papasok.Detail - 33Ano ang ipinahihiwatig ng mga pangungusap na "Walang nag-utos. Walang nakasulat na listahan ng gawain."?
Answer: B. Kusang-loob ang pagkilos at hindi kinailangan ng utos mula sa itaas.Inference - 34Sa huling talata, ano ang pinakamalapit na kahulugan ng "pagkakanya-kanya"?
Answer: A. Pag-iisip lamang sa sariling kapakananVocabulary in Context - 35Alin ang pinakamahusay na paglalarawan sa layunin ng may-akda?
Answer: C. Salungatin ang paniwalang wala nang bayanihan sa kasalukuyanTone And Purpose