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Verbal questions with answers

July 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

Directions for next 5 Verbal questions with answers: For each verbal question in this section, select the best of the answer choices given.

1. One problem with labor unions today is that their top staffs consist of college-trained lawyers, economists, and labor relations experts who cannot understand the concerns of real workers. One goal of union reform movements should be to build staffs out of workers who have come up from the ranks of the industry involved. The argument above depends primarily on which of the following assumptions?
(A) Higher education lessens people’s identification with their class background.
(B) Union staffs should include more people with first-hand industrial supervisory experience.
(C) People who have worked in a given industry can understand the concerns of workers in that industry.
(D) Most labor unions today do not fairly represent workers’ interests.
(E) A goal of union reform movements should be to make unions more democratic.
Answer: C
The Conclusion: Union reform movements should build staffs out of workers who have come up the ranks.
The Evidence: Union movements are currently suffering from a problem: Their staffs consist of college-educated professional types who don’t understand the concerns of the worker. If the author believes that hiring up-from-the-ranks workers (an idea introduced in the conclusion) will cure that problem, he must be assuming that these former workers do understand workers’ real concerns.
There’s no need to assume that higher education lessens people’s identification with their class background (A), since the author hasn’t said that the lawyers, economists, and experts who don’t understand workers come from a working class background. Supervisory experience (B) isn’t the same as coming up through the ranks. Labor unions having problems, which the author admits, isn’t the same as (D) most of them unfairly representing workers’ interests. That’s an overstatement. “Democratic” (E) is a new term, and one the argument doesn’t need.

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Verbal Questions With Answers

March 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

verbal-questions-with-answers- Directions for next 5 Verbal Questions: Each verbal question has a sentence with two blanks followed by four pairs of words as choices. Select the pair of words than can best complete the given sentence.

1. The latest amendments to the Patents Act 1970, expected to be introduced in Parliament to ________ with India’s commitments under the ‘Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights’ agreement of the WTO have _____ almost unanimous criticism.
a. concur …….. invited
b. compare ……. Solicited
c. comply …… invoked
d. conform ………. Induced

Answer. C.
‘Concur’ means to agree and is not apt for the first blank. ‘Compare’ cannot be the word for the first blank. ‘Conform with’ is not possible as it should be ‘Conform to’. Hence the correct words for the two blanks are ‘comply’ and ‘invoked.’

2. The Arunachal macaque’s high rank in the ______ ladder makes its morphological characterization, identify in relation to other closely related Macaca species and field habits scientifically _______ .
a. natural ……. Insipid
b. evolutionary ……. Exciting
c. developmental ………. Important
d. hierarchical ……… worthwhile
Ans. B.
The word ‘evolutionary’ is the most appropriate to go with ladder.

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Sample CAT Verbal Questions

February 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Verbal ability

Sample CAT Verbal Questions: Directions for next 4 Sample CAT Verbal Questions: In each Sample CAT verbal questions, the word at the top of the table is used in 4 different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPROPRIATE.

1. PACK
a. The announcement was designed to pack the irate crowd.
b. Pack the earth down around the plant.
c. The band can still pack out concert halls.
d. What made you pack up a good job like that?

2. COME
a. The doctor says the patient will soon come around
b. If you waste your time, you will surely come to grief.
c. His real character will soon come around light.
d. I don’s think such a thing will ever come to pass.

3. CALL
a. I’;; be on call the night of the party.
b. It is difficult to call around the events of one’s childhood.
c. New responsibilities often call out virtues and abilities unsuspected before.
d. Please call in a doctor at once.

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