Sample Verbal Questions

Sample Verbal Questions- Directions for next 5 sample verbal questions: For each of the verbal questions given below select the best option from the answers given.

1. In 1988, 50 people with emotional disturbances underwent hypnosis to be cured of their mood swings. A follow up survey in 1993 revealed that five had fairly stable emotional conditions at the time of the survey. These five subjects can therefore serve as models of the types of people for whom hypnosis is likely to be successful. Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the suitability of those five subjects as models in the sense described?
(A) The five subjects have very different personalities and backgrounds.
(B) Since 1988, the five subjects have experienced dramatic mood swings interspersed with periods of relative stability.
(C) Those people who were still suffering from unstable emotional conditions at the time of the 1993 survey had shown no improvement since 1988.
(D) Many psychologists are less concerned about a patient’s mood swings than about the patient’s willingness to express his or her problems and fears.
(E) The emotional condition of most of the 45 subjects who were still unstable at the time of the 1993 survey had actually worsened since 1988.

2. The cause of the peculiar columnar growth pattern displayed by junipers growing near burning underground veins of lignite coal has never been convincingly explained. Until recently, the accepted theory posited that the abundance of carbon monoxide in the local atmosphere caused the columnar growth. However, a new theory holds that the cause is the persistent heat present near these underground fires which, while not intense enough to inflame the trees, can nonetheless change their normal growth pattern.
The existence of which of the following would provide the strongest support for the new theory?
(A) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and an absence of carbon monoxide
(B) A normal juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and an absence of carbon monoxide
(C) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of normal heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide
(D) A normal juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide
(E) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide

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Sample Verbal Questions

Direction for next 3 Questions: Fill in the blanks with one of the choices provided below.

1. ____ a business is all about proper decision making.
a. Finishing
b. Catching
c. Running
d. Laundering
e. Hunting

2. Any business calls for two ____ functions.
a. critical
b. rudimentary
c. innate
d. None of these
e. explosive

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Verbal questions with answers

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 Ability Questions

Directions for next 3 Verbal Ability Questions: In the following verbal ability questions, a short paragraph is given. The paragraph has three blanks. Select the most suitable words from the given options to fill in the blanks.

Having achieved this _____(1)_____ agreement, the other provisions of which stupefied Europe even without _____(2)_____ of the secret protocol, Hitler thought that Germany could attack Poland without any danger of Soviet or British introversion and gave orders for invasion to start on august 26. news of the sensing, on august 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistant between Great Britain and Poland ( to _____(3)_____ a previous thought temporary argument) caused him to post pond the start of hostilities for a few days. he was still determined, however, to ignore the diplomatic efforts of the western powers to restrain him.

1. (A) Cynical
(B) Trustful
(C) Descriptive
(D) Candid
(E) Evocative

2. (A) Misleading
(B) Recitation
(C) Divulgence
(D) Opposing
(E) Disclosure

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Sample Verbal Questions

Sample Verbal Questions- Direction for next 2 Sample Verbal Questions: Each verbal question below contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three; Choose the set in which the statement are logically related.

1. A. Final year students would like a good career.
B. All final year students are eligible as candidates for MBA entrance examination.
C. Final year students are eligible for a good career.
D. Some of those who are candidates for an MBA entrance examination are final year students.
E. All those eligible as candidates for an MBA entrance examination are eligible for a good career.
F. All those who would like a good career are entitled to it.
a. AEF
b. EBC
c. BCF
d. CDF
e. None of these

2. A. All bright people acknowledge brains in others.
B. Some knowledgeable men are bright.
C. Some knowledgeable men do not acknowledge brains in others.
D. Some knowledgeable men are persons who are bright.

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Verbal Questions – fireup.co.in

Directions for next 5 questions: In each question below a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categories these statements as facts, inferences, and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices out of the four given is true.

F: Fact: If it relates to a known matter of direct observation, or an existing reality or something known to be true.
J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention.
I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts

1. 1. The Pharma companies in India often conduct controversial clinical trials exploiting the ignorant and illiterate volunteers.
2. Minster of State for Health Panbaka Lakshmi raised this issue in the Parliament ordering an inquiry against “Shreen Cancer Institute of Tamil Nadu”.
3. Full length debate followed in the Parliament and the Union Cabinet constituted a Central drug authority to check and monitor the illegal clinical trials by the drug makers.
4. There have been many instances of drugs being tested without consent. It is maintained by the Enquiry Proceedings that Sun Pharma’s Letrozole was illegally tried on 400 women.
(1) IFFJ
(2) IFIF
(3) IFFF
(4) IFIJ
(5) JFJF

2. 1. The Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences opines that in India the socio-economic profile shows dismal picture, as the majority of volunteers are poor, illiterate, and prone to exploitation by the drug makers.
2. In the last ten years, the pharma industry has grown in size but the regulatory staff of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) remains the same; a team of only 10 professionals to monitor the drug abuse.
3. There is no publicly accessible national data available in the country to check the drug abuse and often medical devices are not notified by the drug makers.
4. Violations under the Drugs Abuse Act are a punishable offence but the drug makers are aware of the loopholes of the Drugs Act and they often go unpunished.
(1) IFIJ
(2) JFJF
(3) IJFI
(4) IFFJ
(5) FFFI

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Verbal Questions for CAT, MAT, XAT and BANK PO EXAM

Verbal Questions for CAT-  Directions for next 5 CAT Verbal Questions: In each verbal questions, the word at the top is used in 4 different ways, labeled a to d. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

1. KEY

a. He was a key figure in the campaign.

b. She played a sonata in the key E flat major.

c. I wanted to key his reaction after I asked him the question.

d. The key is, how long can the federal government control the inflation rate.

2. KILL

a. I was in at the kill when she finally lost her job.

b. The captain stood on the kill of the ship.

c. The fighter plane prepared to move in for the kill.

d. Don’t kill yourself trying to get the work done by tomorrow. It can wait.

3. STATE

a. The man died in a state of grace.

b. State clearly how many driven in state throught the streets.

d. My hair gets full of state when I brush it.

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Verbal Questions

Directions for questions next 5 Verbal Questions: Sentences given in each verbal question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in-between are labeled A, B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences 1 to 6.

1. [1] India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly independent developing country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under-developed country with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious, deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international community of nations if measured in terms of purchasing power.
D. Even today, however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without development.
a. CDAB
b. DCBA
c. CABD
d. BACD
e. ABCD

2. [1] The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last 45 years since the liquidation of the British empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particularly India and Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington’s military alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered the military junta of that country to stub out the civilian government and destroy democracy in Pakistan.
a. ACBD
b. ABDC
c. CBAD
d. DCAB
e. BADC

3. [1] The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context, it would have been more appropriate, if the concept of accelerated depreciation, together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and artificial disallowances of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in Indian tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost to the government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be prohibitive.
a. ADBC
b. BCDA
c. CBDA
d. DBAC
e. CBAD

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Verbal Questions For CAT

Verbal Questions For CAT- Directions for next 3 CAT Verbal Questions: In each of the following cat verbal questions, a capitalized pair of words is given, followed by numbered pairs of words. Identify the numbered pair that exhibits the same relationship as the capitalized pair does and mark its number as your answer or choose E if none of them satisfies.

1. DEMURE: CHURL
(A) Hare-brained: savant
(B) Soothing: emollient
(C) Venal: greenery
(D) Diabolic: hoodoo
(E) None of these

2. PREJUDICIAL: INNOCUOUS
(A) Vertiginous: latitudinal
(B) Sybaritic: ascetic
(C) Diehard: bumptious
(D) Quotidian: quixotic
(E) None of these

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Verbal Questions

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

1. Recent statistics make it seem unlikely that the total consumption of electricity determines its cost to individual consumers. Recent increases in total consumption, especially during the hot summer months, have sometimes been accompanied by a decrease in the cost per unit and at other times by an increase.
Which of the following positions is best supported by the information presented above?
(A) It must be the case that the cost of electricity to consumers is what determines the total consumption.
(B) Even though a correlation exists between the total consumption of electricity and its cost to consumers, no causal relation exists.
(C) Further investigation into the way these statistics were gathered is certainly called for.
(D) The cost of electricity depends upon something other than the total consumption of electricity.
(E) The cost-per-unit of electricity to consumers is dependent on the total electricity consumption.

2. In a nature reserve in India, people are sometimes attacked by tigers. It is believed that the tigers will only attack people from behind. So for the past few years many workers in the reserve have started wearing masks depicting a human face on the back of their heads. While many area residents remain skeptical, no worker wearing one of these masks has yet been attacked by a tiger.
Which of the statements below, if true, would best support the argument of those who advocate the use of the mask?
(A) Many workers in the nature reserve who do not wear the masks have been attacked recently by tigers.
(B) Workers in other nature reserves who wear similar masks have not been attacked recently by tigers.
(C) No tigers have been spotted on the nature reserve in recent years.
(D) Many of the workers who wear the masks also sing while they work in order to frighten away any tigers in the area.
(E) The tigers have often been observed attacking small deer from in front rather than from behind.

3. Since Arlene Hodges was installed as president of the Caralis corporation, profits have increased by an average of 11 percent per year. During the tenure of her predecessor, the corporation’s profits averaged a yearly increase of only 7 percent. Obviously Ms. Hodges’ aggressive marketing efforts have caused the acceleration in the growth of Caralis’ profits.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the conclusion drawn above?
(A) The corporation’s new manufacturing plant, constructed in the past year, has resulted in a 15 percent increase in production capacity.
(B) For each year of Ms. Hodges’ presidency, the corporation’s financial records show an increase in profits over the previous year.
(C) During the tenure of Ms. Hodges’ predecessor, the corporation began an advertising campaign aimed at capturing consumers between the ages of 24 and 35.
(D) Since Ms. Hodges became president, the corporation has switched the primary focus of its advertising from print ads to radio and television commercials.
(E) Just before he was replaced, Ms. Hodges’ predecessor directed the acquisition of a rival corporation, which has nearly doubled the corporation’s yearly revenues.

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