Reading Comprehension about the great wall of China and Ancient ... - Free Printable

Let’s go step by step through each question based on the passage.

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Section A: Choose the right answer from a, b, c and d

Question 1: The Great Wall of China is very famous because....
Options:
a- it is the only building on the earth. → ✘ Not true — there are many buildings.
b- workers built it. → ✘ Many things are built by workers — not special.
c- it is so big in size. → ✔ The passage says: “because of its size, it turned out to be a very famous wall.” Also mentions it’s 4,800 km long — longest ever built.

→ Answer: c

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Question 2: The Chinese built the wall to ....
Options:
a- Keep their enemies out of their land. → ✔ First sentence: “How do you keep an enemy out of your land? One way is to build a high wall. This is just what the Chinese did...”
b- be seen from the moon. → ✘ That’s a fun fact mentioned later, but NOT the reason they built it.
c- Follow the land over mountains and valleys. → ✘ That’s how it was built (following terrain), not why.

→ Answer: a

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Question 3: The building work took ..................to finish.
Passage says: “When the work on these new walls was finished 214 BC, it had taken less than twenty years to complete them.”

Options:
a- 214 years. → ✘ That’s the year it finished, not duration.
b- twenty years. → ✘ It says “less than twenty years”
c- less than twenty years. → ✔ Exact match.

→ Answer: c

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Section B: Mark (√) or cross (X)

Question 4: Cold and enemy attacks caused the death of hundreds of workers.
Passage: “But hundreds of the workers died, either from enemy attacks or from the cold.”
→ So yes, both causes are mentioned.

→ Answer: √

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Question 5: China was united after the building of the new walls had finished.
Passage: “Later the whole of China was united under its first emperor. He ordered that some of the old short walls should be joined up...”
→ So unity happened BEFORE the new walls were built. The emperor who united China then ordered the wall construction.

→ So this statement is FALSE.

→ Answer: X

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Question 6: The whole of China can be seen from the moon.
Passage says: “the Great Wall of China is the only building on the earth that can be seen from the moon.”
→ It says the WALL can be seen — not the whole country of China.

→ So this is FALSE.

→ Answer: X

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Final Answer:

A-
1. c
2. a
3. c

B-
4. √
5. X
6. X