List of top Language Comprehension Questions

I still insist that Ryan is \(\underline {\text{not}\ \text{as}\ \text{black}\ \text{as}\ \text{he}\ \text{is } \text{painted}}\).

He \(\underline {\text{chewed}\ \text{over}}\) the bizarre incident and decided to inform his uncle.

In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four options.
He considers \(\underline {\text{me}\ \text{as}\ \text{a}\ \text{fool}}\)

In the question below, select the answer choice that provides the best meaning of the word given.
ELICIT

In the question below, select the answer choice that provides the best meaning of the word given.
CULMINATE

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
For almost seven years, Mrs Jacob....unable to move her head.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
Biofeedback training is based on the .... that we can gain control on our bodily functions.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
The sharp cracking of a twig mixed with a bird's .... made a great impact on him.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
It is possible to listen to ..... as well as to sound, just as it is possible to see both light and shadow.

In the question below, select the answer choice that provides the best meaning of the word given.
APPERTAIN

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate choices.
He prefers swimming .... any other sport.

From the four choices provided, choose the analogy that is most similar to the one in the question.
wealth : poverty

From the four choices provided, choose the analogy that is most similar to the one in the question.
misfortune : catastrophe

From the four choices provided, choose the analogy that is most similar to the one in the question.
molecule : atoms

From the four choices provided, choose the analogy that is most similar to the one in the question.
limp : walk

From the four choices provided, choose the analogy that is most similar to the one in the question.
riddle : solve

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. It is turning off the tap.
B. And with no consensus of the exit policy, the government is damned if it supports loss-making units and damned if it doesn 't.
C. The private sector did the same in the past because securing legal sanction for closure was viltually impossible.
D. After years of funding the losses of public sector companies, the govemment is doing the unthinkable.

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Trade protocols were signed, the dollar as the medium of exchange was ignored, trade was denominated in rupees and the exchange rate between the two countries was to be fixed outside the ambit of free markets.
B. A young India, some years after independence fashioning her foreign policy of non-alignment, found it prudent to stay close to the former Soviet Union.
C. Once upon a time there was a superpower named Soviet Union that attracted apprehension of the global aspirations of the other superpower, the US.
D. One way of doing this was to evolve a bilateral relations in trade that could be called upon to provide a buffer against the arm-twisting by the US.

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. I had heard that sort of thing before.
B. He said that his generation was the first to believe that it had no future.
C. A young American made earthling stopped by my house the other day to talk about some book of mine he had read.
D. He was the son of a Boston man who had died an alcoholic vagrant.

Read the passage, and answer the questions following
Not only mathematics is dependent on us and our thoughts, but in, we and the whole universe of existing things are dependent on mathematics. The apprehension of this purely ideal character is indispensable if we are to understand rightly the place of mathematics as one among the arts. It was formerly supposed that pure reason could decide in some respects as to the nature of the actual world: geometry, at least, was thought to deal with the space in which we live. But we now know that pure mathematics can never pronounce upon the questions of actual existence: the world of reason, in a sense, controls the world of facts, but it is not at any point creative of fact, and in the application of its results to the world in time and space, its certainty and precision ore lost among approximations and working hypotheses. The objects considered by mathematicians have, in the past, been mainly of a kind suggested by phenomena; but from such restrictions, the abstract imagination should be wholly free. A reciprocal liberty must be accorded; reason cannot dictate to the world of facts, but the fact cannot restrict reason's privilege of dealing with whatever objects its love of beauty may cause to seem worthy of consideration. Here, as elsewhere, we build up our ideals out of the fragments to be found in the world; and in the end, it is hard to say whether the result is a creation or a discovery.

Read the passage, and answer the questions following it.
One of the greatest public speaking failures of my career took place last summer at Valparaiso University, Indiana where I addressed a convention of editors of college newspapers. I said many screamingly funny things but the applause was dismal at the end. During the evening. I asked one of my hosts in what way I had offended the audience. He replied that they had hoped I would moralize. They had hired me as a moralist.
So now when I speak to students, I do moralize. I tell them not to take more than they need, not to be greedy. I tell them not to kill, even in self-defence. I tell them not to pollute water or the atmosphere.
I tell them not to raid the public treasury. I tell them not to commit war crimes or to help others to commit war crimes. These morals go over very well. They are of course echoes of what the young say to themselves.
I had a friend from Schenectady visited me recently, and he asked me this, "Why are fewer and fewer young Americans going into science each year? I hold him that the young were impressed by the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. They were afraid that careers in science could all too easily lead to the commission of war crimes. They don't want to work on the development of new weapons. They don't want to make discoveries which will lead to improved weapons. They don't want to work for corporations that pollute water or atmosphere or raid the public treasury. So they go into other fields. They become physicists who are so virtuous that they don't go into physics at all.
At the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, the students have been raising hell about the university doing secret government work. I go to talk with some of the students about the protests that had been made against the recruiters of Dow Chemicals, manufacturers of napalm among other things.I offered the opinion that an attack on a Dow recruiter was about as significant as an attack on the doorman or theatre usher. I didn't think the recruiter stood for anything.
I called attention to the fact that during the Dow protest at Harvard a couple of years back, the actual inventor of napalm was able to circulate through the crowd of protestors unmolested. I didn't find the fact that he was unmolested reprehensible. I saw it as a moral curiosity. Though I did not mean to suggest to the students at Ann Arbor that the inventor of napalm should have been given one hell of a time.

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. In 1995, that ratio has gone up to 60 per cent, an average annual growth of 8-10 per cent.
B. Fifty years ago, India's roads carried 11 per cent of the goods tramc that moved.
C Indian roads have emerged as a very important mode of transport.
D That sounds good, but at the same time, the number ofvehicles registered has gone up by 121 times in the same period.

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph, Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A. Siasat competes with Rehnuma and Munsif, both of are aggressive players.
B. As many as 25 per cent of the 0.3 million NRIs in the Gulf are estimated to be from Andhra Pradesh and mostly Hyderabad.
C The Urdu daily scenario of Hyderabad is very competitive.
D For Siasat, an interesting outgrowth is its international presence.

His friends advised him to be \(\underline {\text{fair}\ \text{and}\ \text{square}}\) in his dealings.

A US economy firmly on the path of revival and robust growth would be of great significance for the world economy and Indian exporters should be looking at a sustained rise in demand in the US. The US economy, as per recent-released figures has already addedsome 171000 jobs in the month prior. This is shows that the US has made real progress in rejuvenating the economy. Of course, we are quite happy to see the revival of job growth in the US, especially because the Indian industry has had a not so minor role in this development. Indian companies have helped add some 20000 new jobs to the US economy in 2012-13 itself. Future Indian investment directed towards the US is likely to add to this number. Most of these new jobs are actually being created by the Indian Information Technology (IT) sector, which is mistakenly derided as a 'job stealer'by the US. However, empirical evidence clearly suggests that 'outsourcing Improves corporate bottom-lines in the US, which in turn allows corporates to expand, thereby leading to the generation of new jobs. The current rhetoric on outsourcing is overblown and counterproductive. There is after all no real use in creating impedimentsfor a sector that has organically linked our two economies and is helping generate net employment in both lands. A growing India-USeconomic relationship is necessarily IT enabled.