Official Verbal Ability thread for CAT 2013

Statement: Should there be uniforms for students in the colleges in India as in the schools?

Arguments:

Yes, this will improve the ambience of the colleges as all the students will be decently dressed.

No. The college students should not be regimented and they should be left to choose their clothes for coming to the college.

A.Only argument I is strong

B.Only argument II is strong

C.Either I or II is strong

D.Neither I nor II is strong

E.Both I and II are strong


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Statement: Should there be a world government?

Arguments:

Yes. It will help in eliminating tensions among the nations.

No. Then, only the developed countries will dominate in the government.

A.Only argument I is strong

B.Only argument II is strong

C.Either I or II is strong

D.Neither I nor II is strong

E.Both I and II are strong

Statement: Should family planning be made compulsory in India?

Arguments:

Yes. Looking to the miserable conditions in India, there is no other go.

No. In India there are people of various religions and family planning is against the tenets of some of the religions.

A.Only argument I is strong

B.Only argument II is strong

C.Either I or II is strong

D.Neither I nor II is strong

E.Both I and II are strong

Statement: Should there be a ban on product advertising?

Arguments:

No. It is an age of advertising. Unless your advertisement is better than your other competitors, the product will not be sold.

Yes. The money spent on advertising is very huge and it inflates the cost of the product.

A.Only argument I is strong

B.Only argument II is strong

C.Either I or II is strong

D.Neither I nor II is strong

E.Both I and II are strong

A . Indeed, 2009 will mark my column - Sunday Leader's 15th year.

B. Many things have changed in Sri Lanka during that time, and it is tacit that the greater part of that change has been for the worse.

C. We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted with bloodlust that knows no bounds.

D. I have been in the business of journalism a good long time.

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By the time you're my age, you _______ your mind.

will probably change

will probably have changed

would probably change


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how was today's paper?? morning slot??
anyone??

Take care that your love for him doesn't _______ your judgement.

cloud darken shadow topple

The _______ of things was that he was sacked from a job that he had held for over twenty years.

upturn upshot uptake upbeat

Puys.... how to go ahead with revision? In Quant, we know that we have formulae, concepts etc; but in Verbal... what to revise and how? splat

I'm sure I was invited to join the committee as the _______ woman.

token representative sample coupon

which book will be best for VA PREPARATION FOR CAT ? I M A STARTER AND WANT TO GIVE CAT 14 ?? ARUN SHARMA OR NISHIT SINHA ? OR ANY OTHER ? THANKS IN ADV

Given the economic inequalities in the country, you will get a tremendously unequal delivery of medical attention. There is no way of escaping it. There are a lot of rich people in the country and there is no way you can prevent them from having state-of-the-art medical attention within India if they can pay for it. _________________________________________________________

1)Poor people cannot afford high quality medical attention


2)Else they will go to foreign countries to get the required medical attention


3)There is no way you can say it's all right to buy a yacht or a villa but not medical treatment.


4)The rich people cannot be blamed for the unequal delivery of medical attention


An internal survey revealed that some employees at Infysis had called in sick in order to take care of a sick child. The company's HR instituted free on-site day care in hopes of reducing the number of employees engaging in this practice. However, the number of employees who called in sick to care for a sick child was actually higher in the sixth month of the on-site day-care program than it had been the month before the program was instituted.Each of the following, if true, might account for the free day-care plan's apparent lack of success EXCEPT:


1.Many parents at Infysis employ nannies, who care for both sick and healthy children.


2.Many parents declined to use the day care for fear that their sick children would catch a second illness from another sick child.


3.The on-site free day-care center is noisy, hot, and uncomfortable.


4.The sixth month of the on-site day-care program happened to fall at the height of flu season.

choose the one which would be the last sentence!!



And so I cried and I prayed, and as months passed, the ceiling above my bed slowly went back to being just a ceiling. Taking Lucette by the hand, I went back to school. There were hundreds of other children like me, children who had done nothing wrong and who, like me, had suffered some tragedy and were waiting patiently serving out their time, coping as best as they could.

a) If they did not ask questions, it was because they knew they would not like the answers.

b) At night, in the darkness, I brooded on my sadness.

c) I had loved this town all my life and today, I had to leave it.

d) The tension was palpable- the anger almost burnt the walls.

Hey,have my CAT in a few days...can anyone assist me with a compilation of all concepts at one place a pdf or something Thanks!

Exhaustion of natural resources, destruction of individual initiative by governments, control over

men's minds by central _______ of education and propaganda are some of the major evils which

appear to be on the increase as a result of the impact of science upon minds suited by __________

to an earlier kind of world.

(1) tenets; fixation (2) aspects; inhibitions

(3) institutions; inhibitions (4) organs; tradition

(5) departments; repulsion

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 loses 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 patients 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.


@scrabbler sir please explain

Statement :The World Bank strategy to curb corruption could put India's development agenda at risk.Conclusions :I. India's development activities are fraught with corruption.II. India's development activities are financed by the World Bank.III. The World Bank strategy is not aimed particularly at India.

Only I follows

Only I and II follow

All follow

Only II follows

Only II and III follow

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Vitamins and minerals are essential requirement for our body. Citrus fruits and milk products are a good source of vitamins. Vitamins aid regular body functions and development. One should take vitamin supplements in the form of tablets or injections.Which of the following, if true, most strongly weakens the above argument?

Use of excessive pesticides while growing fruits makes them harmful.

Milk products cannot be trusted for their quality as they are produced using banned material.

The milk products and fruits which we intake in our daily diet have sufficient vitamins and minerals.

The vitamin tablets available in the market are an easy option to supplement the daily vitamin requirements.

None of these