Comprehension means understanding. It's important that you understand what you hear and read: that's why your grammar, spelling and pronunciation must be good.
Many people don't take enough time to read words carefully in order to fully understand what is being conveyed. For this exercise, it would be worthwhile reading the following article at least once. If you have a pen and paper handy, perhaps jot down a few key notes that might be worth remembering ~ this could save you having to reread the text again once you get to a question. Make sure you have an all-round general understanding of the passage and if you do need to refer to it again, that's no problem at all. If you really want to test your comprehension, play the quiz again later on the same day without reading the text first. If you get all ten questions correct, then your comprehension (and memory) skills are excellent!
This is the first of three 11-plus English comprehension quizzes.
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'The whole thing' refers to how everything initially started and led on to the development and invention of the telegraph, the telephone and the radio
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In the text, 'capacity' means 'the physical ability to do something'
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Heinrich Hertz was a physicist, so you should have gone for 'physicist' - which is what he was. Look around for helpful tips!
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In the text, 'demonstrate' means 'to show or prove something convincingly'
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In the text, 'project' means 'to send'. Think of the 'varying electric currents' being 'thrown' into space
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'his' is in the same sentence as Mahlon Loomis
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Read the questions carefully. By the way, sound waves are not the same as radio waves: sound can't travel in a vacuum
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He's called the "Father of Radio" - that's the clue!
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In the text, 'Be that as it may' means 'despite that'. The 'that' being the fact that he didn't invent the radio
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The text is about the radio: 'Radio owes its development to ... '
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