Sample Verbal Questions For CAT
CAT Verbal Questions-Directions for next 4 CAT Verbal Questions: Each of the following verbal questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
1. Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon’s hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne looses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it’s about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(2) Other patient’s don’t like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
(3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.
(4) But others will take their place, he thought.
(5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
2. Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports on energy-intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India- in that order.
(1) Climate change is evokes to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these two countries.
(3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and India.
(4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
(5) Today’s climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.
3. Mattancherry is Indian Jewry’s most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel colour houses, connected by first floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.
(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
(2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers and each other.
(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.
(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.
(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.
4. Given the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the question of what is ‘Western’ and what is ‘Eastern’ (or ‘Indian’) is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more dialectical terms. The diagnosis of a thought as ‘purely Western’ or ‘purely Indian’ can be very illusory.
(1) Thoughts are not the kind of things that can be easily categorized.
(2) Though ‘occidentalism’ and ‘orientalism’ as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.
(3) ‘East is East and West is West’ has been a discredited notion for a long time now.
(4) Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable
(5) The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which ‘purity’ happens easily.
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April 12th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
1. Answers: (2)
Explanation: The paragraph is about what indications patients look for in a doctor, with particular reference to his hands. Hence, the last sentence must be about this. The theme is about what the patients do when they notice a doctor’s hands. So 1 & 4 are ruled out. What Perowne thinks is sequential, but will belong early in the next para, not here. Hence 3 & 4 are eliminated. On testing through reading , 2 uses the same kind of language as the para, continues the idea of the previous sentence as is in keeping with the theme sentence.
2. Answers: (4)
Explanation: The passage is about OECD countries using climate change as means to practice trade protectionism. The reason is their lackluster economic performance coupled with the rise of China and India. Choices 1 and 3 merely repeat what has been stated in the passage. Choice 2 is incorrect because the passage does not suggest that the trade barrier is only against China and India. Choice 5 is direct accusation which is not keeping with the tone of the para. 4 summarizes the idea in the para while drawing a conclusion in keeping with the critical tone of the para.
3. Answers: (2)
Explanation: The focus of the passage is on the Jews in India, their peaceful existence and their ‘pastel coloured’ lives, different from what Jews have faced elsewhere. In other words, it is not about the town, but about the lives of Jews. Hence only option 2 or 3 which focuses on Jews can conclude the para. Choice 3 is ruled out because it is not about Jews being tolerant(since they are the minority). Choice 4 is ruled out because the para does not show tolerance as a façade. Choice 5 focusses on tourists which is not the main idea. Hence 2.
4. Answers: (5)
Explanation: The given para says that there is cultural and intellectual interconnection between the East and the West so nothing can be called purely Western or purely Indian. Choice 2 can be ruled out because it merely continues the idea but does not conclude. Choice 4 runs counter to the idea expressed. Choice 3 also does not conclude the para as it introduces an idea far broader than what is being discussed in the para. Choices 1 and 5 appear possible and of the two choices 5 is better because the word ‘purity’ links to purely in the previous sentence. Further , more than categorization, it is the origin that is shrouded in mystery.