CAT Verbal ability questions and answers

Verbal ability questions and answers: Direction for next 6 CAT Verbal ability questions: In each of the following CAT Verbal ability questions, a part of the paragraph or sentences has been underlined. From the choices given to you, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

1. The Romanians may be restive under Soviet direction — but they are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links.
a. they are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links
b. they are preparing for a great revolution
c. secretly they rather enjoy the prestige of being protected by the mighty Soviets
d. there is nothing they can do about it
e. they are tied to Romania by ideological and military links
Answers. No other choice states why they are tied to Moscow.

2. In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses on these people without hope, whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is often neglected by a disinterested society. 2
a. whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid
b. who do not have enough to eat
c. whose hopelessness may be alleviated
d. who may be physically satiated
e. whose body is cared for by welfare aid
Answers. The sentence refers to the people who are ‘physically looked after’ by the welfare aid. No other choice states the involvement of welfare aid.

3. Contemplating whether to exist with an insatiable romantic temperament, he was the author and largely the subject of a number of memorable novels.
a. Struggling to exist
b. Combining realistic details
c. Miscegenating a brilliant mind
d. Aware that he had been born
e. Aware that he had not been born
Answers. The best possible and logical answer is (b) combining realistic details.

4. How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start to make sense? There is a monster out there, and it is rushing towards me over the uneven ground of consciousness.
a. There is a monster out there
b. It is as if the world is on my shoulders
c. The answer is out there somewhere
d. There is a sea of sensibility in me
e. There is no sensibility in me.
Answers. The given phrase obviously refers to the answer to the question that is bothering the author.

5. In Martin Amis’ new novel, the narrator is trapped — and hurtling towards a terrible secret, its resolution and the dreadful revelations it brings, ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt.
a. ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt
b. to us give a vivid picture of guilt
c. is a painful picture of a guilt ridden world
d. does not really solve all the questions in the narrator’s mind
e. ally to give an incisive vision of guilt
Answers. The original phrase is best suited here.

6. Victory is everything in the Indian universe and Tendulkar will be expected to translate his genius to that effect. To contemplate any other option is to contemplate the risk of failure.
a. To contemplate any other option is to contemplate the risk of failure.
b. Failure is not an action that can be contemplated.
c. Any other action has the potential of failure.
d. Failure is not an option.
e. Failure should not be contemplated.
Answers. The sentence means that any other action will most probably lead to failure.

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