List of top English Language Comprehension Questions

Directions: Choose the word or pair of words that best completes the relationship to the given pair:
allusion: reference:: ________:_________

Directions: Choose the set of prepositions whose meaning and sequence best fits the 3 given sentences.
1. After the burglary, the office bought a sophisticated security system as an insurance ________any such losses. 
2. She put ________ a brave front at the end of the meeting. 
3. Sunil decided to avail himself _________the opportunity to go to Australia for training.
(A) on
(B) of
(C) at
(D) against
(E) up
(F) with

Directions: In the given question, the sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Identify the one underlined work or phrase that must be changed in order to make the sentence correct. Mark E for no error.
Though they were written almost a year after they separated, Salim and Javed’s stories were published on the same day.

Directions: Rearrange the jumbled sentences to show the appropriate sequence.
(A) For example, when the early homo sapiens left their homes in search for food, they would risk death and injury from dangerous animals. 
(B) Throughout human history, the universe has presented an innumerable amount of dangers to explorers. 
(C) Today, many adventure enthusiasts seek to find the thrills and adrenaline rush which their ancestors had experienced in the wild. 
(D) The tradition of humans going out to experience the dangers of unknown nature still exists.

Choose the correct verb form to fill in the blanks:
That there would be thunderstorm today was ______by the weather experts.

Select the pair which has the same relationship as the pair below:

Find the correctly spelt word.

Choose the correct alternative to replace the italicized phrase in the following sentence. In case no improvement is
needed, option '4' is the answer.
I cannot force her to marrying.

Choose the correct order of the sentence to create a meaning out of PQRS set:
This work
P: there emerges a picture spread over three generations
Q: which depicts the rapidity of change
R: devotees form a considerable amount of attention to local detail,
S: and from such a realistic perspective

Identify the correct direct speech form of the following sentence:

Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence:
Roopam hasn’t seen her father_______________ last September

Choose the correct meaning of the idioms given in capital letter in the sentences :
The project advanced by LEAPS AND BOUNDS:

A watch showed a time of fourteen minutes past nine (9 hours and 14 minutes). The positions of the hour-hand and the minute-hand of the watch are exactly interchanged. The real time shown by the watch is closest to which one of the following?

Choose the correct meaning of the idioms given in capital letter in the sentences :
His speech FELL SHORT on the audience:

Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning :
Contradict:

Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning :
Solitude:

Choose the word in meaning to opposite the word given:
Myth:

Choose the word in meaning to opposite the word given:
Chronic:

Choose the correct meaning of the idioms given in capital letter in the sentences :
His promotion is ON THE CARDS:

Complete the sentences with suitable alternatives
We eat so that we \_\_ live:

Complete the sentences with suitable alternatives:
......... I have your permission to leave the office early?

Complete the sentences with suitable alternatives:
Do you \_\_ to work on Sunday?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Amid the sharp rise in NPA, talks of setting up a ‘bad’ bank have been gaining momentum. The government and the RBI are drawing up strategies on how to operationalise such a scheme. The economic survey of 2016-17 pointed out the twin balance sheet problem — stressed companies on one hand and NPA-laden banks on the other — and advocated a centralised Public Sector Asset Rehabilitation Agency (PARA) be established to deal with the bad loans problem.
“Private Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) haven’t proved any more successful than banks in resolving bad debts,” the economic survey had said while proposing the ‘bad’ bank. “But international experience shows that a professionally-run central agency with government backing — while not without its own difficulties — can overcome the difficulties that have impeded progress,” it added.
One challenge private sector ARCs face is that of capital. None of the entities till now has been allowed to tap the capital market for raising funds. Kotak Mahindra Bank, which recently took its board’s approval to raise Rs. 5,300 crore equity said the bank also wanted to capitalise on opportunities in acquisition and resolution of stressed assets in the banking sector including participation in a ‘bad’ bank. Kotak Mahindra Prime and Kotak Mahindra Investments, companies in the Kotak Mahindra Group are sponsors of the asset reconstruction company Phoenix and together own 49% stake in it. “The ARCs are badly capitalised. We see significant opportunity for Kotak in this,” Mr. Kotak said adding the country would need 2-3 well-capitalised ‘bad’ banks. Some central bank as well as government officials also admitted capital was the biggest challenge in setting up a ‘bad’ bank. “At least Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 30,000 crore of capital will be required to set up a bad bank in the initial stages. Where will the money come from?” asked a senior central bank official.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
E-pharmacies, which operate through websites or smartphone apps on the Internet, offer medicines for sale at a discount of at least 20% when compared to traditional pharmacists, with the added convenience of home delivery of medicines to one’s doorstep. For scheduled drugs, patients can submit photographs of prescriptions while placing orders. Despite operating in India for at least four years now, the legal status of these e-pharmacies is not clear because the government is yet to notify into law draft rules that it published in 2018. The fiercest opponents of e-pharmacies are trade associations of existing pharmacists and chemists. They argue that their livelihoods are threatened by venture capital backed e-pharmacies and that jobs of thousands are on the line. Apart from these obvious arguments, these trade associations also spin imaginary tales of how e-pharmacies will open the door to drug abuse and also the sale of sub-standard or counterfeit drugs, thereby threatening public health. There is enough evidence on record to demonstrate how existing pharmacies contribute generously to drug abuse and sale of sub-standard medicine. There is no reason to suspect that e-pharmacies are going to worsen the situation in anyway. The more prudent way of looking at the entry of e-pharmacies is competition and the resultant effect it will have on lowering the price of medicine for Indian patients. Viewed from this perspective, there is virtually no doubt that e-pharmacies should be allowed to operate because the history of India’s trade associations of pharmacists is one of rampant, unabashed cartelisation that has resulted in an artificial inflation of medicine prices. This practice of two competitors colluding to fix the sale price and area of operation is called cartelisation, and is illegal under India’s Competition Act. The premise of this law is that a free market is efficient only if all sellers are competing with each other to offer the lowest price to the customer.