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CAT 2000 | Question: 1
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. The current debate on intellectual property rights $\text{(IPRs)}$ raises a number of important issues concerning the strategy and policies for building a more dynamic ... regime for Indian agriculture. The relative roles of public and private sectors. Wider concerns about privatisation' of research.
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.The current debate on intellectual property rights $\text{(IPRs)}$ raises a number of important ...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 22
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. The conceptions of life and the world which we call philosophical' are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical conceptions; the other, the ... help us to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity help us to find explanations for uncertainty reduce the terror of cosmic loneliness
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.The conceptions of life and the world which we call ‘philosophical’ are a product of two fac...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 17
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. If translated into English, most of the ways economists talk among themselves would sound plausible enough to poets, journalists, business people, and other thoughtful though noneconomical folk. Like ... Economics has a great impact on other's lives Economics damaging a and b c and d a and c b and d
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.If translated into English, most of the ways economists talk among themselves would sound plausi...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 12
Read the passage and answer the question: The production of histories of India has become very frequent in recent years and may well call for some explanation. Why so many and why this one in particular? The reason is a two ... history Trained historians began writing Indian history Writing India-centric Indian history began Indian history began to be written in India
Read the passage and answer the question:The production of histories of India has become very frequent in recent years and may well call for some explanation. Why so many...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 6
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. There are a seemingly endless variety of laws, restrictions, customs and traditions that affect the practice of abortion around the world. Globally, abortion is probably the single ... likely to allow abortion? India and China Australia and Mangolia Cannot be inferred from passage Both (A) and (B)
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.There are a seemingly endless variety of laws, restrictions, customs and traditions that affect ...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 4
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. Cells are ultimate multitaskers: they can switch on genes and carry out their orders, talk to each other, divide into two, and much more, all at the same time. But they could not do any of these tricks ... by a calcium engine a and b but not c a and c but not b a and d but not b c and d but not b
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.Cells are ultimate multitaskers: they can switch on genes and carry out their orders, talk to ea...
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CAT 2002 | Question: 1
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. Cells are ultimate multitaskers: they can switch on genes and carry out their orders, talk to each other, divide into two, and much more, all at the same ... systems the understanding of nanotechnology arresting the growth of cancer in a human being the development of cures for a variety of diseases
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.Cells are ultimate multitaskers: they can switch on genes and carry out their orders, talk to ea...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-31
The poem given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer to the question. As you set out for Ithaka hope the journey is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon - don ... what enriches you. The longer the journey the greater the experiences you gather. You cannot reach Ithaka without reaching Egyptian ports
The poem given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer to the question.As you set out for Ithakahope the journey is a long one,full of adventure, full of ...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-21
Read the passage and answer the following question. Modern science, exclusive of geometry, is a comparatively recent creation and can be said to have originated with Galileo and Newton. Galileo was the first scientist to recognize clearly ... instruments of measurement were very crude The Greeks considered the application of geometry to the physical world more important
Read the passage and answer the following question.Modern science, exclusive of geometry, is a comparatively recent creation and can be said to have originated with Galil...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-16
Read the passage and answer the following question. Social life is an outflow and meeting of personality, which means that its end is the meeting of character temperament and sensibility in which our thoughts and feelings and sense perceptions are brought ... consisting of casual acquaintances and strangers Intimate meeting of old friends New friends Both $1\; \&\; 2$
Read the passage and answer the following question.Social life is an outflow and meeting of personality, which means that its end is the meeting of character temperament ...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-11
Read the passage and answer the following question. The controversy over genetically-modified food continues unabated in the West. Genetic modification (GM) is the science by which the genetic material of a plant is altered, perhaps to make it ... the only group of actors in genetically modified food research Economic development will help the poor buy MNC - produced food
Read the passage and answer the following question.The controversy over genetically-modified food continues unabated in the West. Genetic modification (GM) is the science...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-6
Read the passage and answer the following question. Right through history, imperial powers have clung to their professions to death. Why, then, did Britain in $1947$ give up jewel in its crown to India? For many reasons. The independence ... Britain's war efforts would be jeopardized. The British Empire was built on the premise that the conqueror pay the conquered.
Read the passage and answer the following question.Right through history, imperial powers have clung to their professions to death. Why, then, did Britain in $1947$ give ...
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CAT 2003 | Question: 1-1
Read the passage and answer the following question. At the heart of the enormous boom in wine consumption that has taken place in the English-speaking world over the last two decades or so is a fascinating, happy paradox. In the days ... the author uses while asking What French winemaker will ever admit that? , is best described as caustic satirical critical hypocritical
Read the passage and answer the following question.At the heart of the enormous boom in wine consumption that has taken place in the English-speaking world over the last ...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 115
Read the passage and answer the question. Fifty feet away three male lions lay by the road. They didn't appear to have hair on their heads. Nothing the colour of their noses (leonine noses darken as they age, from pink to black), Craig ... money from the book by sensationalism it perpetuated the bad name in Tsavo lions had it narrated how two make Tsavo lions were killed.
Read the passage and answer the question.Fifty feet away three male lions lay by the road. They didn’t appear to have hair on their heads. Nothing the colour of their n...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 111
Read the passage and answer the question. Throughout human history the leading causes of death have been infection and trauma. Modern medicine has scored significant victories against both, and the major causes of ill health and death ... companies are not producing drugs to treat this condition national surveys on malnutrition do not include newer micronutrient groups
Read the passage and answer the question.Throughout human history the leading causes of death have been infection and trauma. Modern medicine has scored significant victo...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 107
Read the passage and answer the question. The viability of the multinational corporate system depends upon the degree to which people will tolerate the unevenness it creates. It is well to remember that the New Imperialism' which began after ... of outputs - a labour force, middle classes and rival centres of capital. both have comparable uneven and divisive effects.
Read the passage and answer the question.The viability of the multinational corporate system depends upon the degree to which people will tolerate the unevenness it creat...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 102
Read the passage and answer the question. The painter is now free to paint anything he chooses. There are scarcely any forbidden subjects, and today everybody is prepared to admit that a painting of some fruit can be as important as a painting of a ... his time. Its meaningfulness to the painter. What is put in front of the easel. Past experience and memory of the painter.
Read the passage and answer the question.The painter is now free to paint anything he chooses. There are scarcely any forbidden subjects, and today everybody is prepared ...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 98
Read the passage and answer the question. Recently I spent several hours sitting under a tree in my garden with social anthropologist William Ury, a Harvard University professor who specializes in the art of negotiation and wrote the ... innovation in automobiles by promoting use of new technologies. Further innovation in jet engines has been more than incremental.
Read the passage and answer the question.Recently I spent several hours sitting under a tree in my garden with social anthropologist William Ury, a Harvard University pro...
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CAT 2005 | Question: 45
Read the passage and answer the question. While complex in the extreme, Derrida's work has proven to be a particularly influential approach to the analysis of the ways in which language structures our understanding of ourselves and the world we ... a common understanding of reality. We need to uncover the hidden meaning in a system of relations expressed by language.
Read the passage and answer the question.While complex in the extreme, Derrida’s work has proven to be a particularly influential approach to the analysis of the ways i...
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CAT 2005 | Question: 41
Read the passage and answer the question. Crinoline and croquet are out. As yet, no political activists have thrown themselves in front of the royal horse on Derby Day. Even so, some historians can spot the parallels. It is a ... among people because of all-round prosperity. a culmination of all-round economic prosperity an imminent danger lurking behind economic prosperity.
Read the passage and answer the question.Crinoline and croquet are out. As yet, no political activists have thrown themselves in front of the royal horse on Derby Day. Ev...
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CAT 2005 | Question: 31
Read the passage and answer the question. A game of strategy, as currently conceived in game theory, is a situation in which two or more players make choices among available alternatives (moves). The totality of choices determined the outcomes of ... their own preferences for different outcomes. there are no threats to the reader (or viewer) in case of external conflicts.
Read the passage and answer the question.A game of strategy, as currently conceived in game theory, is a situation in which two or more “players” make choices among a...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 46
Some decisions will be fairly obvious - 'no-brainers . Your bank account is low, but you have a two week vacation coming up and you want to get away to some place warm to relax with your family. Will you accept your in-laws offer of free use of ... you are short on funds and want a holiday is a no-brainer. Another no-brainer is taking the boss s job when she is away.
Some decisions will be fairly obvious - 'no-brainers‘. Your bank account is low, but you have a two week vacation coming up and you want to get away to some place warm ...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 43
Read each of the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow. Atmospheric jet streams were discovered towards the end of World War II by U.S. bomber pilots over Japan and by German reconnaissance aircraft over the ... atmospheric jet stream is A rare phenomenon. Three dimensional. Concentrated in the northern hemisphere. More common in summer.
Read each of the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow. Atmospheric jet streams were discovered towards the end of World War II by U.S. bomber...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 36
Old, longstanding firms concentrate on protecting what they have already amassed. Consequently, they rarely innovate and often underestimate what consequences innovation by other companies will have. The best example of one such defensive strategy is the ... more traditional smokers of tobacco, are now bought mostly by young smokers of scented or flavored herbal blends.
Old, longstanding firms concentrate on protecting what they have already amassed. Consequently, they rarely innovate and often underestimate what consequences innovation ...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 34
In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidates. The third-party candidate always attracts some of the voters who might otherwise ... major parties. The political stance of a third party will be more radical than that of either of the two major parties
In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidat...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 34
In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidates. The third-party candidate always attracts some of the voters who might otherwise ... major parties. The political stance of a third party will be more radical than that of either of the two major parties
In a political system with only two major parties, the entrance of a third-party candidate into an election race damages the chances of only one of the two major candidat...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 33
Education Secretary: Too many adults lack sufficient skills for job advancement because of the cost of higher education. Businesses should partner with educators to create curricula that are tailored to the needs of these people, thus increasing the ... students will not attend classes in higher education unless they are convinced that doing so will be a good investment.
Education Secretary: Too many adults lack sufficient skills for job advancement because of the cost of higher education. Businesses should partner with educators to creat...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 28
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. The communities of ants are sometimes very large, numbering even up to $500$, individuals: and it is a lesson to us that no one has ever yet seen quarrel between ... giving any sign or password. Attitudes of ants towards strangers of the same species may be categorized as Indifferent Curious Hostile Passive
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. The communities of ants are sometimes very large, numbering even up to $500$, individuals: and it is a l...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 23
Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. There are many and good reasons why women have left little in the way of literary monuments, especially poetry. The main reason is education, or more specifically the lack of it in most women ... in the literary sphere. It suited men well since in such a scenario the women had no choice but to imitate the men.
Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. There are many and good reasons why women have left little in the way of literary monuments, especially p...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 22
During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in $1907,$ ... . Only a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis to the design of the Quebec Bridge could have prevented its collapse.
During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in $1907,$ the bridge's designer, Theodore Cooper, received word that the suspended span being built out from the bridge's ca...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 22
During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in $1907,$ ... . Only a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis to the design of the Quebec Bridge could have prevented its collapse.
During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in $1907,$ the bridge's designer, Theodore Cooper, received word that the suspended span being built out from the bridge's ca...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 21
Street crime can be averted through regulations mandating the lighting of streetlights during daytime. As daytime visibility is worse in nations farther from the equator, so obviously such regulations would be more successful in averting crime there. Actually, ... to avert street crime in the continental United States than they do in the nations that have the regulations.
Street crime can be averted through regulations mandating the lighting of streetlights during daytime. As daytime visibility is worse in nations farther from the equator,...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 17
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. When views can freely flourish in the marketplace of ideas, individuals are afforded the advantage of deciding what notions and concepts to question, support or reject. On ... in reliably informing individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. It has essentially been the status quo since America s founding.
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. When views can freely flourish in the marketplace of ideas, individuals are afforded the advantage of de...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 16
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 ... in midwinter than at other times of the year. Some antidepressants act by changing the brain s level of serotonin.
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 depres...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 15
Science, because people engage in it, is a socially embedded activity. It progresses by hunch, vision, and intuition. Much of its change through time does not record a closer approach to absolute truth, but the alternation of ... facts rather than on theories Understand that theories are frequently strict inductions from facts Consider the cultural biases of scientists
Science, because people engage in it, is a socially embedded activity. It progresses by hunch, vision, and intuition. Much of its change through time does not record a cl...
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CAT 2014 | Question: 1
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily destroy only unwanted species, biocontrol. agents (such as insects, fungi, and viruses) eat, infect, or parasitize ... to control plant or animal pasts. Arguing that biocontrol agents involve risks, some of which may not be readily discerned.
Answer the questions below on the basis of the following passage. More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily destroy only unwanted species, bioc...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 123
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Local communities have often come in conflict with agents trying to exploit resources, at a faster pace, for an expanding ... new type of class conflict when they are given raw material at subsidized prices for an expanding commercial-industrial economy.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.Local communities have often come in conflict with agent...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 122
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Modern bourgeois society, said Nietzsche, was decadent and enfeebled - a victim of the excessive development ... instincts. Nietzsche blames excessive intellectualization for the decline of modern society and suggests nurturing creative instincts instead.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.Modern bourgeois society, said Nietzsche, was decadent a...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 121
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Although almost all climate scientists agree that the Earth is gradually warming, they have long been of two minds about the ... of the Earth and exaggerated seasons in its hemisphere will help scientists in Germany predict climate changes better in future.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.Although almost all climate scientists agree that the Ea...
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CAT 2004 | Question: 97
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. The human race spread all over the world, from the polar regions to tropics. The people of whom it is made up eat different kinds ... regions like India prefer mainly grains, they have to change what they eat depending on the local climate and the local produce.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.The human race spread all over the world, from the pola...
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