List of top English Language Comprehension Questions on Reading Comprehension asked in CMAT

All the great religious teachers of mankind have insisted on this that men ought not to live for themselves alone.We ought not, they have said,to spend all our time and energy in getting just what we want for ourselves, power and money and importance in the world;we ought to serve something greater than ourselves,whether a god or a cause or our fellowmen.It is by serving this something greater that men will forget themselves and so achieve happiness.This or something like it is what the great religions have taught,and it is one of the most important of the things that civilization means.It is also the hardest to learn and practise;in fact,most people have found it much too hard.
What does the passage suggest overall?
(A) It suggests humanism as a religious practice.
(B) It holds nationalism as the most cherished sentiment in society.
(C) It holds altruism as a universal value.
(D) It holds humanism as the most important thing in human life.
(E) It puts altruism in the binary of selfishness.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

All the great religious teachers of mankind have insisted on this that men ought not to live for themselves alone.We ought not,they have said,to spend all our time and energy in getting just what we want for ourselves,power and money and importance in the world;we ought to serve something greater than ourselves, whether a god or a cause or our fellowmen.It is by serving this something greater that men will forget themselves and so achieve happiness.This or something like it is what the great religions have taught,and it is one of the most important of the things that civilization means.It is also the hardest to learn and practise;in fact,most people have found it much too hard.
Which of the following terms is closer to the central idea of the given passage?

This particular scepticism of the reach of reasoning ____1 ____ not yield nor (as Appiah makes clear) is it intended to yield any ground for not using reason to the extent one can, in ____ 2 ____ the idea of justice or any other notion of social relevance,such as identity.Nor does it undermine the case for our trying to persuade each other to scrutinize our respective conclusions.It is also important to note that what may appear to others as clear examples of 'unreason' may not always be exactly that.Reasoned discussion can accommodate conflicting positions that may appear to others to be 'unreasoned prejudice,without this being quite the case.There is no compulsion, as is sometimes____3____to eliminate every reasoned alternative except exactly one.
In the above passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.Find out the appropriate option in each case to replace the given numbers.
Pick the appropriate replacement for (II)

This particular scepticism of the reach of reasoning ____1 ____ not yield nor (as Appiah makes clear) is it intended to yield any ground for not using reason to the extent one can, in ____ 2 ____ the idea of justice or any other notion of social relevance,such as identity.Nor does it undermine the case for our trying to persuade each other to scrutinize our respective conclusions.It is also important to note that what may appear to others as clear examples of 'unreason' may not always be exactly that.Reasoned discussion can accommodate conflicting positions that may appear to others to be 'unreasoned prejudice,without this being quite the case.There is no compulsion, as is sometimes____3____to eliminate every reasoned alternative except exactly one.
In the above passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.Find out the appropriate option in each case to replace the given numbers.
Pick the appropriate replacement for (I)

This particular scepticism of the reach of reasoning ____1 ____ not yield nor (as Appiah makes clear) is it intended to yield any ground for not using reason to the extent one can, in ____ 2 ____ the idea of justice or any other notion of social relevance,such as identity.Nor does it undermine the case for our trying to persuade each other to scrutinize our respective conclusions.It is also important to note that what may appear to others as clear examples of 'unreason' may not always be exactly that.Reasoned discussion can accommodate conflicting positions that may appear to others to be 'unreasoned prejudice,without this being quite the case.There is no compulsion, as is sometimes____3____to eliminate every reasoned alternative except exactly one.
In the above passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.Find out the appropriate option in each case to replace the given numbers.
Pick the appropriate replacement for (III)

Read the following passage and answer the next two questions.
Education, taken in its most extensive sense, is properly that which makes the man. One method of education, therefore, would only produce one kind of man; but the greater excellence of human nature consists in the variety of which it is capable. Instead then, of endeavouring, by uniform and fixed systems of education, to keep mankind always the same, let us give free scope to everything which may bid fair for introducing more variety among us. The varied character of the Athenians was certainly preferable to the uniform character of the Spartans, or to any uniform national character whatever. Uniformity is the characteristic of the brute creation. Among them every species of bird builds its nest with the same materials and in same form; the genius and disposition of one individual is that of all and it is only the education which men give them that raises any of them much above others. But it is the glory of human nature that the operations of reason, through variable and by no means infallible, are capable of infinite improvement. We come into the world worse provided than any of the brutes; but when their faculties are at a full stand and their enjoyments incapable of variety or increase, our intellectual powers are growing apace; we are perpetually deriving happiness from new sources, and even before we leave this world, are capable of tasting the felicity of angels.

Comprehension Read the following passage and answer the next three questions:
To what extent reasoning can _____ (I) _____ a reliable basis for a theory of justice is, of course, itself an issue that has been subject to controversy. ______ (II) ______ first chapter of this book is (III). with the role and reach of reasoning. I argue against the plausibility of seeing emotions or psychology or instincts as independent sources of valuation, without reasoned appraisal. Impulses and mental attitudes remain important, however, since we have good reasons to take note of them in our assessment of justice and injustice in the world. There is no irreducible conflict here, I argue, between reason and emotion, and there are very good reasons for making room for the relevance of emotions. In the above passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate option in each case to replace the given numbers.