CAT 2022 Set-3 | Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension | Question: 17

Question

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option $1, 2, 3$, or $4$) the following sentence would best fit.

$\text{Sentence}:$ When people socially learn from each other, they often learn without understanding why what they're copying-the beliefs and behaviours and technologies and know-how-works.

$\text{Paragraph}:$ ___$(1)$___.The dual-inheritance theory ....says....that inheritance is itself an evolutionary system. It has variation. What makes us a new kind of animal, and so different and successful as a species, is we rely heavily on social learning, to the point where socially acquired information is effectively a second line of inheritance, the first being our genes.….___$(2)$___.People tend to home in on who seems to be the smartest or most successful person around, as well as what everybody seems to be doing-the majority of people have something worth learning.___$(3)$___.When you repeat this process over time, you can get, around the world, cultural packages beliefs or behaviours or technology or other solutions-that are adapted to the local conditions. People have different psychologies, effectively. ____$(4)$___.

• A. Option $1$
• B. Option $2$
• C. Option $3$
• D. Option $4$

Answer 1

The sentence "When people socially learn from each other, they often learn without understanding why what they're copying—the beliefs and behaviours and technologies and know-how—works" fits best in Option 2.