List of top Language Comprehension Questions asked in CMAT

Pick out the correct sentence:

Rajni is a Voracious reader.
The meaning of the underlined word is:

Radha keeps an open house every weekend to teach yoga.
What does the underlined word mean?

Rajiv's utopian idea was entertaining, but not acceptable. What does the underlined word mean?

Choose an appropriate synonym for the given word:
WREAK

Fill in the blank with appropriate word/ words.
Harris _____ thirteen pages when his laptop crashed.

Fill in the blank(s) with appropriate word/ words.
As _____ head of the organisation, he attended social functions and civil meetings, but had no _____ in the formulation of company policy.

Fill in the blank(s) with appropriate word/ words.
Confused and _____ Shyam fumbled to make sense of seemingly inconsistent statements, _____ the impatience of his listeners.

The reformer must know that what moves people is the authentic life, not mere writing. The newspaper and journals that Tilak and other reformers ran, the books they wrote, sold little, but had enormous effect. Their writing was known to reflect and be just an extension of, their exemplary lives. It was the authenticity of their lives which lent weight to their message, to their example. All knew that their lives were an integral whole - they were not moral in public life and lack in private, not vice versa. They were not full of pious thoughts and sacred resolutions within the walls of a temple.
A writer who is merely entertaining his readers, even one who is merely informing them, can do what he wants with the rest of his life. But the writer, who sets out to use his pen to reform public life, cannot afford such dualities. Here is the testimony of one great man - about the influence of another, Lokmanya Tilak.
"I believe that an editor who has anything worth saying and who commands a clientiele cannot easily be hushed. He delivered his finished message as soon as he is put underduress. Tilak spoke more eloquently from the Mandalay fortress than through columns of the printed Kesari.
His influence was multiplied thousand fold by his imprisonment and his speech and his pen had acquired much greater power after he was discharged than before his imprisonment. By his death we have been editing his paper without pen and speech through the sacred resolution of the people to realize his life's dream.
He could possibly have done more if he were today in flesh preaching his view. Critics like me would perhaps be still finding fault in the expression of this or that. Today, his message rules millions of hearts which are determined to raise permanent living memorial by the fulfilment of his ambition in their lives".

New Metro Rail Project was commissioned yesterday at Hyderabad by the State Railway Minister. What is the opposite of the underlined word?

In this question, a word is underlined in the given sentence. For the underlined word, four words are listed below. Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined word.
The football coach had a sympathetic presence, albeit a commanding one.

In the following sentence, choose the nearest similar meaning word so that the meaning of sentence may not change.
Ritu asked Rashmi not a meddle in her affairs.

Form a meaningful sentence from the given sentences.
(A) It results from a carefully revised plan
(B) Men work together for a cause or purpose
(C) Team work does not just happen
(D) It must be clearly known to them

Choose the correctly spelt word.

What do you understand by - FRATRICIDE?

Choose the most suitable word for the given expression.
One who cannot die.

Fill in the blank with appropriate word(s). One who believes in no Government and therefore incites disorder in a state is called _____

Select the word or phrase which is closest to the opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
You are advised to show clemency to the defeated enemy.

In this question, you are given a sentence, a part of which is underlined. This is followed by four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Select the version that best rephrases the underlined part.
We want the teacher to be him who has the best rapport with the students.

The question has a group of sentences marked A, B, C, D and E. Arrange these to form a logical sequence.
(A) but there is some merit in it
(B) as distinct from consumption
(C) the bifurcation of plan and non-plan funds
(D) in so far as it focuses attention on development expenses
(E) in the budget in artificial

The appropriate meaning of stir up a hornet's nest would be _____ .

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth.He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi,by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure .these things just fall awayin the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remenbering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows :
An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future. Many languages are falling out of use and being replaced by others that are more widely used in the region or nation, such as English in theU.S. or Spanish in Mexico. Unless current trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinctwithin the next century. Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers ; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies. Infact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person's death will mean the extinction of the language : It will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone. Ancient Greek and Latin languages are considered dead because they are no longer spoken in the form in which we find them in ancient writings. But they weren't abruptly replaced by other languages ; instead, Ancient Greek slowly evolved into modem Greek, and Latin slowly evolved into modem Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, and other languages. In the same way, the Middle English of Chauceis day is no longer spoken, but it has evolved into Modern English

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
There are no World Trade Organisation (WTO) defi nitions of "developed" and "developing" countries. Members announce for themselves whether they are "developed" or "developing" countries. However, other members can challenge the decision of a member to make use of provisions available to developing countries. Developing country status in the WTO brings certain rights. There are for example provisions in some WTO Agreements which provide developing countries with longer transaction periods before they are required to fully implement the agreement and developing countries can receive technical assistance. That a WTO member announces itself as a developing country does not automatically mean that it will benefi t from the unilateral preference schemes of some of the developed country members such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). In practice, it is the preference giving country which decides the list of developing countries.

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
When a child is born, her first connection to the world is established through her mother, or in a broader sense,her parents. An infant sees the world through her parent's eyes ; she tries to imbibe everything she recognises in her parents. Thus, a parent-child relationship lays the foundation of the 'building of her li y . Parenting is the bringing up of a child. It is like the nourishment that is necessary for a sapling to grow into a big and fruitful tree. Hence, for a child to grow into a wonderful human being, good parenting is essential. Parenting styles vary from culture to culture. The world is a big place comprising of a variety of people having different ways of living.Although culture is the key ingredient, the economic situation and standard of living also have an impact on parenting. While there are a common set of values in different cultures like honesty and integrity, the value system stands divided on some of the major facets of parenting, exemplifi ed by the comparison of the Indianstyle with that of the West.