What is passage? and how to answer the questions?

The format is quite simple. It contains a passage usually having a length of 500 to 2000 words. Five question are being asked on the passage. The passage is ‘taken from published material. The word comprehension'actually’ means ‘grasping with intellect’ ‘understanding’ The question follow the passage are 6 fvarying quality and range. Some of the questions test your ability to recognize implications and draw inferences. The questions test your ability...

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: The impact of technical advancement in armaments on man, needs to be analyzed with a rational mind, and heart free from prejudices of any kind towards modernisation. The most noticeable impact of this development certainly has been the loss of immunity from violence for successive generations ever since the invention of gunpowder. In modern times, the presence of technically advanced...

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 Whether India and the US are signing a new extradition treaty or amending the existing one is somewhat unclear, but there is no doubt that India's extradition requests have usually been turned down by western democracies. For instance, when India requested the extradition of the JKLF leader, Amanullah Khan, who was visiting the US four years ago, a US lawcourt turned down the Indian request. So did a judge in Belgium when Khan went to Belgium:...

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Study the passage and answer the questions that follow:  India is not, as you may imagine, a distant, strange, or at the very utmost, a curious country, India for the future belongs to Europe, it has its place in the Indo-European world, it has its place in our own history and in what is the very life of history, the history of the human mind, You know how some of the best talents and the noblest genius of our age has been devoted to the study of the development of the outward or material world, the growth of the earth, the first appearance...

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Study the passage and answer the questions that follow:  Some religious teachers have taught that Man is made up of a body and a soul: But they have been silent about the Intellect. Their followers try to feed the body on earth and to save soul from perdition after death: But they neglected the claims of the mind. Bread for the body and Virtue for the soul: These are regarded as the indispensable requisites of human welfare here and hereafter....

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Study the passage and answer the questions that follow:  India is not, as you may imagine, a distant, strange, or at the very utmost, a curious country, India for the future belongs to Europe, it has its place in the Indo-European world, it has its place in our own history and in what is the very life of history, the history of the human mind, You know how some of the best talents and the noblest genius of our age has been devoted to the...

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Study the passage and answer the questions that follow:  Some religious teachers have taught that Man is made up of a body and a soul: But they have been silent about the Intellect. Their followers try to feed the body on earth and to save soul from perdition after death: But they neglected the claims of the mind. Bread for the body and Virtue for the soul: These are regarded as the indispensable requisites of human welfare here and hereafter....

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Study the passage and answer the questions that follow: India's role on the international stage was moulded by history rather than by the pomp and circumstances of war. As a separate entity of the British empire, India became a founder member of the League of Nations in the same Way as Australia and Canada, and thus acquired a somewhat unique international status long before independence. During the days of the League when India's interests were...

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English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

Read the following passage and answer questions that follow:  Paragraph II It was during one of the most dreadful smallpox epidemic~ in England that Edward Jenner, a country doctor, made a: Discovery which was to alter the course of history. Jenner noticed that the disease seldom struck those who lived in rural areas and worked around cattle. Most farmers and dairy workers had contracted cowpox and had recovered with nothing more serious...

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Short Reading Comprehension Passages

English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers The most important reason for this state of affairs, perhaps, is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with...

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Kerala Plus One Trial Allotment List 2014

Kerala Plus One Trial Allotment List 2014 has been published at www.hscap.kerala.gov.in, the official website for single window admissions. Students who have applied for Plus One Admission 2014 under the single-window system can check their allotment status soon after the trial allotment results are published in the website. Check For Plus One Trial Allotment Results 2014 Plus One Trial Allotment List 2014 will give candidates a clear picture...

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ECONOMIC SURVEY 2012-13

Economic Survey2012-2013 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India,Economic Survey 2012–13 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performance on major development programmes, and highlights the policy initiatives of the government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term. This document is presented to both houses of Parliament during the Budget...

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Science and Technology in World History

The history of Science and Technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanity's understanding of the natural world (science) and ability to manipulate it (Technology) have changed over the centuries. This academic discipline also studies the cultural, economic, and political impacts of scientific innovation. Histories of science were originally written by practicing and retired scientists, starting primarily with...

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HISTORY OF INDIA

History of India The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens, as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids includingHomo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was the first major civilization in South Asia.A sophisticated...

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Ratan Tata Gets Honorary Doctorate From Canada’s York University

Canada’s world-famous York University has conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree on former Tata group chairman Ratan Tata for his quest for innovation and role in promoting corporate social responsibility. Tata flew into Toronto to receive the honour bestowed on him at the 2014 spring convocation of York University’s Schulich School of Business at the weekend. A citation read by Professor Dirk Matten said the most inspiring feature of...

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June 23 Is World Widow Day

June 23 was declared as the International Widows’ Day at a conference at the UN in 2011. According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, “No woman should lose her rights when she loses her husband.” Some 40 million of the world’s widows live in India. Their plight is often invisible, as many people are unaware of the troubles faced by those abandoned by their families. While eight percent of women in India are widows, only 2.5 percent of men...

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Rail Passenger Fares Up 14.2 Percent

The government Friday raised the railway passenger fares by 14.2 percent in all classes and freight charge by 6.5 percent. The new passenger fare and freight rates will come into effect from June 25, the railway ministry said in a release. The ministry said the revision of rates was done as part of interim budget presented by the previous government, but was not implemented because of the elections. The release said the annual expenditure...

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Hindi poet Kedar Nath Singh selected for Jnanpith Award 2013

Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh was chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith award for 2013.  He is the 10th Hindi writer to receive the honour and is the 49th recipient of Jnanpith award. Kedarnath  was born in 1934 in Chakiya village of Balia district of Uttar Pradesh and he completed his MA and PhD from Banaras Hindu University in 1956 and 1964.  his . He became famous with a book entitled teesra saptak edited by Sachchidananda...

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Global Economy Prize For India’s Biotech Queen

India’s biotechnology queen and Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been awarded the coveted Global Economy Prize for business by the Kiel Institute in Germany during its centenary celebrations. “Mazumdar-Shaw is the first Indian woman and fourth Indian to be conferred this prize,” the Bangalore-based biotech company said in a statement here Monday. The German institute is an international centre for research in global economic affairs,...

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NASA built World’s most powerful telescope to track alien’s life

NASA built World’s most powerful telescope to track alien’s life National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) plan to build Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) in Portsmouth. It will be the World’s most powerful and largest telescope once it is built. The telescope can analyze the environment of other planets and able to track the existence of aliens life. The telescope will track the species for about 30...

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Civil Service entrance exam Time Table 2014

Civil Service entrance exam Civil Service Preliminary Exams This is only the first level exam for entrance into the IAS. Once you have cleared the Prelims you have to appear in the Mains written exams. This is to be followed by the personality test (interview). The Prelim exam is only of qualifying nature. The scores of the Mains written exam and personality test will be counted to decide the final results. The number of candidates called for the interview is normally double the vacancy announced. A degree from a recognized University...

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Kerala PSC Village Extension Officer {VEO} Solved Question Papers

1.The U.N. decided to observe 2008 as : Ans: International year of planet earth 2.The last Governor General of Free India : Ans: Raja Gopalachari 3.'Big Ben' is related to : Ans: London 4.The Comptroller and Auditor General is appointed by: Ans: President of India 5.A western port: Ans: Karidla 6.'Go to Vedas' was made by: Ans: Swami Dayananda Saraswathi 7.The first Indian went into the space : Ans: RakeshSharma 8.'Sudden...

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