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CAT 1999 | Question: 47
Read the passage and answer the question: In Sun-tzu and other Chinese writings, the highest achievement of arms is to defeat an adversary without fighting. He wrote: To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. ... should be undertaken only after thorough preparation. War is linked to politics. War should not be left to the generals alone.
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Read the passage and answer the question: In Sun-tzu and other Chinese writings, the highest achievement of arms is to defeat an adversary without fighting. He wrote: To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme ... to obliterate the enemy once and for all. Manipulation of an adversary without his knowledge. Subduing an enemy without fighting.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 45
In Sun-tzu and other Chinese writings, the highest achievement of arms is to defeat an adversary without fighting. He wrote: To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the ... of the US to mobilize its military strength. their inability to fight a war on terms other than those they understood well.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 44
Read the passage and answer the question: Since Second World War, the nation state has been regarded with approval by every political system and every ideology. In the name of modernization in the West, of socialism in the Eastern Bloc, and ... as genocide for self-preservation. It represents the demands of communities within it. It is unable to prevent international wars.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 43
Read the passage and answer the question: Since Second World War, the nation state has been regarded with approval by every political system and every ideology. In the name of modernization in the West, of socialism in the Eastern Bloc, and ... to preserve order. generates security for all its citizens. has been a major force in preventing civil and international wars.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 42
Read the passage and answer the question: Since Second World War, the nation state has been regarded with approval by every political system and every ideology. In the name of modernization in the West, of socialism in the Eastern Bloc, and of the ... out of disparate people. Identity is a necessity in the changing world. Identity is a cognitive necessity. None of the above
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CAT 1999 | Question: 41
Read the passage and answer the question: Since Second World War, the nation state has been regarded with approval by every political system and every ideology. In the name of modernization in the West, of socialism in the Eastern Bloc, ... movements and militant action. as efforts to rediscover cultural roots which can slide towards intolerance of others. All of the above
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CAT 1999 | Question: 40
Read the passage and answer the question: Since Second World War, the nation state has been regarded with approval by every political system and every ideology. In the name of modernization in the West, of socialism in the Eastern Bloc, and of ... of development in the Third World. socialism in the Third World. development in the West. modernization in the Eastern Bloc.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 39
Read the passage and answer the question: Each one has his reasons: for one, art is a flight; for another, a means of conquering. But one can flee into a hermitage, into madness, into death. One can conquer by arms. Why does it ... an artist, reveals the essentiality of revelation. makes us feel essential vis-à-vis nature. creates reality. reveals nature in its permanence.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 38
Read the passage and answer the question: Each one has his reasons: for one, art is a flight; for another, a means of conquering. But one can flee into a hermitage, into madness, into death. One can conquer by arms. Why does it have ... anticipated and progresses on a series of hypotheses. this literary object has a moving horizon brought about by the very act of creation.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 37
Read the passage and answer the question: Each one has his reasons: for one, art is a flight; for another, a means of conquering. But one can flee into a hermitage, into madness, into death. One can conquer by arms. ... of objectivity and subjectivity. revelation and action. objective reality and perceived reality. essentiality and non-essentiality of objects and subjects.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 36
Read the passage and answer the question: Each one has his reasons: for one, art is a flight; for another, a means of conquering. But one can flee into a hermitage, into madness, into death. One can conquer by arms. Why does it have to ... object. man can produce and reveal at the same time. an act of creation forces itself on our consciousness leaving us full of amazement.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 34
Read the passage and answer the questions: Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modern abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in a brightly-coloured canvas which your senses ... the different values attached by each to being a historian. the varying levels of drafting skills and logical thinking abilities.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 33
Read the passage and answer the questions: Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modern abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in a brightly-coloured canvas which your senses cannot ... trying to convey the message of simplicity and rational order. Mondrian learned from his Tree series to evolve a grid system.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 32
Read the passage and answer the questions: Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modern abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in a brightly-coloured canvas which your senses cannot interpret ... in a distorted manner. it was a mature work of Picasso, painted when the artist's drafting skills were excellent.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 31
Read the passage and answer the questions: Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modern abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in a brightly-coloured canvas which your senses cannot interpret ... . they understand the art without putting too much strain on their minds. painting like Guernica do not have a point.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 30
Read the passage and answer the questions: Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modern abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in a brightly-coloured canvas which your ... ideal and real. abstract artists are unskilled in matters of technical drafting. abstractionists compose irrationally. All of the above
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CAT 1999 | Question: 29
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the $1970$s, since ... the court more than envisaged in the Treaty of Rome. led to a doctrine that was a key turning point in European integration.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 28
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the $1970$s, since ... the export gains many countries came to associate with a rule-based system. the provision of a rule-based system by the WTO.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 27
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the ... most elementary community goals needed to be emphasised. actions of member states needed to be evaluated against the stated community goals.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 26
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo ... grandfather-rights exceptions and defects in dispute settlement procedures. ambiguities about the powers of contracting parties to make certain decisions.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 25
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the $1970$ ... the benefits of increased trade. it settles disputes more legally and more effectively. its rule-based system leads to export gains.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 24
Read the passage and answer the questions: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed in the early $1990$s as a component of the Uruguay Round negotiation. However, it could have been negotiated as part of the Tokyo Round of the $1970$ ... to do so. Lawyers did not work for the dispute settlement system. The Tokyo Round negotiation was an attempt at constitutional reform.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 23
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease ... for a few days and be otherwise only delayed for a few days and otherwise only delay for a few days and
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CAT 1999 | Question: 22
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. Many of these environmentalists proclaim to save ... nothing lesser than that they are saving nothing lesser than to save nothing less than that they save nothing less than
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best ...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 21
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. If you are in a three-month software design project and, in two ... of the problem in two weeks and, in two weeks, you put together a program that solved only part of the problem
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best ...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 20
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, ... the thread on her loom's shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make them understand the need to persevere.
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best ...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 19
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. Since the advent of cable television, ... , the entertainment industry has taken this decade, the entertainment industry had taken this decade, the entertainment industry took
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CAT 1999 | Question: 18
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. Mr Pillai, the president of the union and who is also a ... a member of the community group a member of the community group in addition, who is a member of the community group
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CAT 1999 | Question: 17
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. The MP rose up to say that in her opinion, she thought ... 's Reservation Bill should be passed rose to say that, in her opinion, the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed on
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CAT 1999 | Question: 16
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four. It was us who had left before he arrived. we who had left ... arrived. us who had went before he arrived. us who had went before had arrived. we who had left before he arrived.
In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best ...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 15
For the question, indicates which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unreasonable man in the passage below. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The ... information to others. sing the praises of the bride when he goes to a wedding. sleep late and rise early.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 14
For the question, indicates which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unreasonable man in the passage below. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The ... anxious to agree. be helpful when solicited. tell a long story to people who have heard it many times before.
For the question, indicates which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unreasonable man in the passage below.Un...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 13
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. Animals, in general, are shrewd in proportion as they cultivate society. Elephants and beavers show the greatest signs of this sagacity when they are together in large numbers, ... their lack of industry upon separation. Elephants and beavers are smarter than bees and ants in the presence of human beings.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 12
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. The company's coffee crop for $1998-99$ totalled $8,079$ tonnes, an all-time record. The increase over the previous year's production of $5,830$ tonnes was $38.58$ ... uncertain. The target-setting procedures in the company had been proved to be sound by the achievement of the $8,000$ tonnes target.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.The company’s coffee crop for $1998-99$ totalled $8,079$ tonnes, an all-time record. The increase o...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 11
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. Thomas Malthus, the British clergyman-turned economist, predicted that the planet would not be able to support the human population for long. His explanation was that human ... unchanged. Human beings can colonize other planetary systems on a regular and ongoing basis to accommodate a growing population.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.Thomas Malthus, the British clergyman-turned economist, predicted that the planet would not be able t...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 10
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. Cigarettes constitute a mere $20$ per cent of tobacco consumption in India, and fewer than $15$ per cent of the $200$ million tobacco users consume cigarettes. Yet these $15$ ... for a reduction on duties. An increase in duties on non-cigarette tobacco may lead to a shift in favour of cigarette smoking.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.Cigarettes constitute a mere $20$ per cent of tobacco consumption in India, and fewer than $15$ per c...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 09
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. Various studies have shown that our forested and hilly regions and, in general, areas where biodiversity - as reflected in the variety of flora - is high, are the places where ... performance. In regions where there is low biodiversity, at all levels of poverty, educational performance is seen to be good.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.Various studies have shown that our forested and hilly regions and, in general, areas where biodivers...
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CAT 1999 | Question: 08
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. Developed countries have made adequate provisions for social security for senior citizens. State insurers (as well as private ones) offer medicare and pension benefits to people who can ... . If the working population builds a stronger financial base, there will be a revival of the joint family system.
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CAT 1999 | Question: 07
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it. According to McNeill, a Brahmin priest was expected to be able to recite at least one of the Vedas. The practice was essential for several centuries when the Vedas had ... Vedic priest was like a recorded audio cassette. McNeill studied the behaviour of Brahmin priests. Vedic hymns had not been scripted.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.According to McNeill, a Brahmin priest was expected to be able to recite at least one of the Vedas. T...
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