Official Verbal Ability thread for CAT 2013

MBA CAT 2024
1501

1. Governments have only one response to public criticism of socially necessary services: regulation of the activity of providing those services. But governments inevitably make the activity more expensive by regulating it, and that is particularly troublesome in these times of strained financial resources. However, since public criticism of child-care services has undermined all confidence in such services, and since such services are socially necessary, the government is certain to respond.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The quality of child care will improve.

(B) The cost of providing child-care services will increase.

(C) The government will use funding to foster advances in child care.

(D) If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond.

(E) If child-care services are not regulated, the cost of providing child care will not increase.

2. Advertisers are often criticized for their unscrupulous manipulation of people‟s tastes and wants. There is evidence, however, that some advertisers are motivated by moral as well as financial considerations. A particular publication decided to change its image from being a family newspaper to concentrating on sex and violence, thus appealing to a different readership. Some advertisers withdrew their advertisements from the publication, and this must have been because they morally disapproved of publishing salacious material.

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument?

(A) The advertisers switched their advertisements to other family newspapers.

(B) Some advertisers switched from family newspapers to advertise in the changed publication.

(C) The advertisers expected their product sales to increase if they stayed with the changed publication, but to decrease if they withdrew.

(D) People who generally read family newspapers are not likely to buy newspapers that concentrate on sex and violence.

(E) It was expected that the changed publication would appeal principally to those in a different income group.

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1502

1. If retail stores experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season, then either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford. If attitudes have changed, then we all have something to celebrate this season. If prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford, then it must be that salaries have not kept pace with rising prices during the past year.

Assuming the premises above to be true, if salaries have kept pace with rising prices during the past year, which one of the following must be true?

(A) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed.

(B) Retail stores will not experience a decrease in retail sales during this holiday season.

(C) Prices in retail stores have not risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season.

(D) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have not changed, and stores will not experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season.

(E) Either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season.


2. The “suicide wave” that followed the United States stock market crash of October 1929 is more legend than fact. Careful examination of the monthly figures on the causes of death in 1929 shows that the number of suicides in October and in November was comparatively low. In only three other months were the monthly figures lower. During the summer months, when the stock market was flourishing, the number of suicides was substantially higher.

Which one of the following, if true, would best challenge the conclusion of the passage?

(A) The suicide rate is influenced by many psychological, interpersonal, and societal factors during any given historical period.

(B) October and November have almost always had relatively high suicide rates, even during the 1920s and 1930s.

(C) The suicide rate in October and November of 1929 was considerably higher than the average for those months during several preceding and following years.

(D) During the years surrounding the stock market crash, suicide rates were typically lower at the beginning of any calendar year than toward the end of that year.

(E) Because of seasonal differences, the number of suicides in October and November of 1929 would not be expected to be the same as those for other months.



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1503

1. There is little point in looking to artists for insights into political issues. Most of them hold political views that are less insightful than those of any reasonably well-educated person who is not an artist. Indeed, when taken as a whole, the statements made by artists, including those considered great, indicate that artistic talent and political insight are rarely found together.

Which one of the following can be inferred from the passage?

(A) There are no artists who have insights into political issues.

(B) A thorough education in art makers a person reasonably well educated.

(C) Every reasonably well-educated person who is not an artist has more insight into political issues than any artist.

(D) Politicians rarely have any artistic talent.

(E) Some artists are no less politically insightful than some reasonably well-educated persons who are not artists.

2. Economic considerations colour every aspect of international dealings, and nations are just like individuals in that the lender sets the terms of its dealings with the borrower. That is why a nation that owes money to another nation cannot be world leader.

The reasoning in the passage assumes which one of the following?

(A) A nation that does not lend to any other nation cannot be a world leader.

(B) A nation that can set the terms of its dealings with other nations is certain to be a world leader.

(C) A nation that has the terms of its dealings with another action set by that nation cannot be a world leader.

(D) A nation that is a world leader can borrow from another nation as long as that other nation does not set the terms of the dealings between the two nations.

(E) A nation that has no dealings with any other nation cannot be world leader.

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1504

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph


1). Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge, i.e., want of knowledge.

2). To deal with uncertainty and ignorance economists have recognized the entrepreneur as possessing this non-rational form of knowledge.

3). Like some ancient priest-king, the entrepreneur 'knows' the future and leads his people.

4). Entrepreneurial knowledge is essentially intuitive.

5). It involves seeing and realizing a vision of future markets, products and/or other opportunities.


A. 32145

B. 43125

C. 12453

D. 45123

E. 23541

1505

Question :

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).And it was Clive who was given the job of __________ the __________ that was known as the black hole of Kolkata.

avenging, tragedy

revenging, incidence

placating, doom

punishing, hooligans

managing, comedy

1506

The ______ young man is too keen to ______ the dubious scheme without a second thought.

impetuous, implement

excited, imprecate

impervious, impregnate

fecund, impersonate

smart, reject

1507

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows. Every one has heard people quarrelling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant; but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say. Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man €™s behaviour does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: €œTo hell with your standard €. Nearly always he tries to make out that what he has been doing does not really go against the standard, or that if it does there is some special excuse. He pretends there is some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat first should not keep it, or that things were quite different when he was given the bit of orange. It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent behaviour about which they really agreed If they had not, they might, of course, fight like animals, but they could not quarrel in the human sense of the word Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do what unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are; just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer had committed a foul unless there was some agreement about the rules of football.

What is theme of the passage?

People who do not have an agreement on right and wrong will not quarrel.

When others do things which do not appeal to an individual's standard of behaviour, there will be special excuses offered by others for their behaviour.

There will be no quarrels if people had known what the acceptable standards of behaviour are.

Nobody will offer excuse if they did not believe in the rule of fair play.

If law is just and fair, there will be ready agreement as to what is right or wrong.



Which of the following would be the appropriate title for the passage?

Argument – The Human Nature

The law of Human Nature.

The Rule of Arbitration.

Wrong can be Right.

There is something in the way we quarrel.
1508

After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles ____ through disuse.


A. atrophied

B. contracted

C. elongated

D. invigorated

E. dwindled

1509

can anyone suggest me any good book for grammar preparation. i have searched for david green-temporary English but i did not got it.........so please reply asap.


1510

@Bigshu

Chinese diplomat Dai Bingguo has recently said that Indian firms should seize the opportunities offered by the Chinese import market as a method to combat India's large trade deficit with China. China has similarly been encouraging its own companies to buy more from India to ensure that the current trade imbalance does not spin out of control.Which of the following is as assumption implicit in the Chinese diplomat's remarks?



10 answers 1) Trade surplus with trading partners is always desirable.



0 answers 2) Standard of living in India is lower than that in China.



3 answers 3) Chinese are more productive than Indians



25 answers 4) Trade surplus is harmful to a country in the long run.



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cn u pls explain hw cn it be 4 as i c many peoplr in favour of that option??

1511

Statements: A. All stairs are lifts.

B. No lifts is an escalator.

C. Some escalator are helicopter.

D. some lifts are planes.



Conclusions: I. No stairs is an escalator.

II. Some helicopters are not escalator .

III. Some stairs are planes.

Iv. Some helicopters are escalators.


1.Only I and II follows

2.Only I and IV follows

3Only I and either II and IV follows

4.Either II or IV follows

5.Only I,III and IV follows


1512

There is one blank in each of the following sentences. From the words below, choose the one that fills the blank most appropriately:

1. For the first time a thrill of fear chilled him, his self –confidence was suddenly ___.

(a) devolved (b) debauched (c) dissipated (d) dangled

2. I wonder you waste time coming over here on the ___ when you've got a piece of business like that to look after. (a) spree (b) spar (c) splurge (d) splinter

3. India has always taken pride in its diversity and has adopted a Constitution which gives freedom to all religious communities, not only to follow their faith in the way they want to but also to propagate its teachings without any bar. The struggle for Independence against the British had one distinctive feature ___. (a) monism (b) absolutism (c) dualism (d) pluralism

4. I think the stronger groups will flourish and the weaker ones will fall by the ___. (a) roadside (b) verge (c) edge (d) wayside

5. Mitsubishi's Starion is the most famous example. They meant to call it Stallion but ended spelling it the way Japanese pronounce it. By this time this was pointed out, it was too late to make a correction, so the PR department ___ an explanation about stars from the Orion constellation. (a) conked (b) concocted (c) constituted (d) constricted

1513

can any one help me for Small RC passages in CMAT? PDF/ forum/ typical ques?? Please


1514

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph:


1). Food manufactures spend more on advertising than any other manufacturing group and the nation's grocery stores rank first among all retailers.


2). Food product lead in expenditures for network and spot television advertisements, discount coupons, trading stamps, contests, and other forms of premium advertising.


3). Foods are overwhelming the most advertised group of all consumer products in the U.S.


4). In other media- newspapers, magazines, newspaper supplements, billboard and radio, food advertising expenditures rank near the top.

A. 3421

B. 3241

C. 3142

D. 4132

1515

Rhizobium bacteria living in the roots of bean plants or other legumes produce fixed nitrogen which is one of the essential plant nutrients and which for non-legume crops, such as wheat normally must be supplied by applications of nitrogen-based fertilizer. So if biotechnology succeeds in producing wheat strains whose roots will play host to Rhizobium bacteria, the need for artificial fertilizers will be reduced. The argument above makes which one of the following assumptions?

(A) Biotechnology should be directed toward producing plants that do not require artificial fertilizer.

(B) Fixed nitrogen is currently the only soil nutrient that must be supplied by artificial fertilizer for growing wheat crops.

(C) There are no naturally occurring strains of wheat or other grasses that have Rhizobium bacteria living in their roots.

(D) Legumes are currently the only crops that produce their own supply of fixed nitrogen.

(E) Rhizobium bacteria living in the roots of wheat would produce fixed nitrogen.

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1516

Current legislation that requires designated sections for smokers and non-smokers on the premises of privately owned businesses is an intrusion into the private sector that cannot be justified. The fact that studies indicate that non-smokers might be harmed by inhaling the smoke from others' cigarettes is not the main issue. Rather, the main issue concerns the government's violation of the right of private businesses to determine their own policies and rule. Which one of the following is principle that, if accepted, could enable the conclusion to be properly drawn?



(A) Government intrusion into the policies and rules of private businesses is justified only when individuals might be harmed.

(B) The right of individuals to breathe safe air supersedes the right of businesses to be free from government intrusion.

(C) The right of businesses to self-determination overrides whatever right or duty the government may have to protect the individual.

(D) It is the duty of private businesses to protect employees from harm in the workplace.

(E) Where the rights of businesses and the duty of government conflict, the main issue is finding a successful compromise.



1517

@Devanki

The ______ young man is too keen to ______ the dubious scheme without a second thought.





impetuous, implement



excited, imprecate



impervious, impregnate



fecund, impersonate



smart, reject



1518


It is difficult to reconcile the ideas of different schools of thought on the question of education. Some people maintain that pupils of school should concentrate on a narrow range of subjects which will benefit them directly in their subsequent careers. Others contend that they should study a wide range of subjects so that they not only have the specialized knowledge necessary for their chosen careers but also sound general knowledge about the world they will have to work and live in. Supporters of the first theory state that the greatest contributions to civilization are made by those who are expert in their trade or profession. Those on the other side say that, unless they have a broad general education, the experts will be too narrow in their outlook to have sympathy with their fellows or a proper sense of responsibility towards humanity as a whole.



1. What is the passage about?

A. Reconciliation of two different ideas about education

B. Projecting two different ideas about education

C. Career-oriented education

D. Broad-based education


2. According to the passage which one of the following statements is true about broad general knowledge?

A. Without it no one would get a job

B. Specialization is incomplete without it

C. It teaches us about different things

D. It broadens one's outlook



1519

The soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced academic libraries used only by academic researchers to drastically reduce their list of subscriptions. Some have suggested that in each academic discipline subscription decisions should be determined solely by a journal's usefulness in that discipline, measured by the frequency with which it is cited in published writings by researchers in the discipline. Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the suggestion described above?


(A) The non-academic readership of a scholarly or scientific journal can be accurately gauged by the number of times articles appearing in it are cited in daily newspapers and popular magazines.

(B) The average length of a journal article in some sciences, such as physics, is less than half the average length of a journal article in some other academic disciplines, such as history.

(C) The increasingly expensive scholarly journals are less and less likely to be available to the general public from non-academic public libraries.

(D) Researchers often will not cite a journal article that has influenced their work if they think that the journal in which it appears is not highly regarded by the leading researchers in the mainstream of the discipline

(E) In some academic disciplines, controversies which begin in the pages of one journal spill over into articles in other journals that are widely read by researchers in the discipline.



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1520

Baking for winter holidays is tradition that may have a sound medical basis. In midwinter, when days are short, many people suffer from a specific type of seasonal depression caused by lack of sunlight. Carbohydrates, both sugars and starches, boost the brain's levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that improve the mood. In this respect, carbon hydrates act on the brain in the same way as some antidepressants. Thus, eating holiday cookies may provide an effective form of self-prescribed medication. Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) Seasonal depression is one of the most easily treated forms of depression.

(B) Lack of sunlight lowers the level of serotonin in the brain.

(C) People are more likely to be depressed in midwinter than at other times of the year.

(D) Some antidepressants act by changing the brain's level of serotonin.

(E) Raising the level of neurotransmitters in the brain effectively relieves depression.



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