List of top Language Comprehension Questions

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Philosophy of Education is a label applied to the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. It can be considered a branch of both philosophy and education. Education can be defined as the teaching and learning of specific skills and imparting of knowledge, judgment and wisdom, is something broader than the societal institution of education we often speak of.
Many educationalists consider it a weak and woolly field, too far removed from the practical applications of the real world to be useful. But philosophers dating back to Plato and the Ancient Greeks have given the area much thought and emphasis, and there is little doubt that their work has helped shape the practice of education over the millennia.
Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential element in "The Republic" (his most important work on philosophy and political theory, written around 360 B.C.). In it, he advocates some rather extreme methods: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, music and art. Plato believed that talent and intelligence is not distributed genetically and thus is be found in children born to all classes. although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
Aristotle considered human nature, habit and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading. writing. mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.
During the Medieval period, the idea of Perennialism was first formulated by St. Thomas Aquinas in his work "De Magistro". Perennialism holds that one should teach those things deemed to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere, namely principles and reasoning, not just facts (which are apt to change over time), and that one should teach first about people, not machines or techniques. It was originally religious in nature, and it was only much later that a theory of secular perennialism developed.

Read the paragraph given below and answer the question that follows:
.… Turkle describes the computer as an evocative object, one that raises new questions regarding our common sense of the distinction between artefacts and intelligent others. Her studies include an examination of the impact of computer-based artefacts on children’s conceptions of the difference between categories such as “alive” versus “not alive” and “machine” versus “person.” In dealing with the questions that computer-based objects evoke, children make clear that the differentiation of physical from psychological entities, which as adults we largely take for granted, is the end product of a process of establishing the relationship between the observable behaviour of a thing and its underlying nature. Children have a tendency, for example, to attribute life to physical objects on the basis of behaviours such as autonomous motion or reactivity, though they reserve humanity for entities evidencing such things as emotion, speech, and apparent thought or purposefulness. Turkle’s observation with respect to computational artefacts is that children ascribe to them an “almost aliveness” and a psychology, while maintaining their distinctness from human beings: a view that, as Turkle points out, is remarkable among other things for its correspondence to the views held by those who are the artefacts’ designers.
Which of the following statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?

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

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

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

Choose an appropriate synonym for the given word:
WREAK

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.

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 with appropriate word/ words.
Harris _____ thirteen pages when his laptop crashed.

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".

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.

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

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

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.

What do you understand by - FRATRICIDE?

Choose the correctly spelt word.

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.