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CAT 2004 | Question: 96
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. You seemed at first to take no notice of your school-fellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you ... did not know them well. You should learn to not make enemies because of your prejudices unless they behave badly with you

go_editor asked in English Language Jan 15, 2016

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CAT 2009 | Question: 48
The function of strategic planning is to position a company for long-term growth and expansion in a variety of markets by analyzing its strengths and weaknesses and examining current and potential opportunities. Based on this information, the ... grow. Compare and contrast two styles of corporate planning. Evaluate the strategic planning goals of corporate America today.

makhdoom ghaya asked in English Language Jan 5, 2016

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CAT 2009 | Question: 45
PASSAGE-II Founded at the dawn of the modern industrial era, the nearly forgotten Women's Trade Union League(WTUL) played an instrumental Line role in advancing the cause of working women throughout the early part of the twentieth century. In ... the methods employed by an important labour union. Rebuke historians for failing to cover the women's labor movement adequately.

makhdoom ghaya asked in English Language Jan 4, 2016

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CAT 2009 | Question: 41
History has shaped academic medical centers (AMCs) to perform $3$ functions: patient care, research, and teaching. These $3$ missions are now fraught with problems because the attempt to combine them has led to such ... toward the inefficiencies at academic medical centers is one of Reluctant acquiescence Strident opposition. agonized indecision. reasoned criticism.

makhdoom ghaya asked in English Language Jan 4, 2016

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CAT 2005 | Question: 52
The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the options given choose the one that completes paragraph in most appropriate way. Thus the end of knowledge and the closing of the frontier that it symbolizes is not ... . But we might be the first generation to deal with the crisis. However, this time the success is not illusory.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Dec 30, 2015

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CAT 2005 | Question: 51
The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the options given choose the one that completes paragraph in most appropriate way. Federer's fifth grand slam win prompted a reporter to ask whether he was the ... his contemporaries. The difference between the best of this generation and the best ever is a matter of perception.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Dec 30, 2015

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CAT 2005 | Question: 50
The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the options given choose the one that completes paragraph in most appropriate way. Most firms consider expert individuals to be too elitist, temperamental, ... The result is mediocrity. The result is the creation of experts who then become elitists. Naturally they drive innovations

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Dec 30, 2015

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CAT 2005 | Question: 49
The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the options given choose the one that completes paragraph in most appropriate way. The audiences for crossword and Sudoku, understandably, overlap greatly, but there are ... hand, can be attempted and enjoyed even by children. Sudoku, however, is not exciting in any sense of term.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Dec 30, 2015

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CAT 2006 | Question: 46
Read the passage and answer the question. Our propensity to look out for regularities, and to impose laws upon nature, leads to the psychological phenomenon of dogmatic thinking or, more generally, dogmatic behaviour: we expect regularities ... fertilizer industry being transformed into fertilizers. A predator killing its prey. The effect of fertilizers on a sapling.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 28, 2015

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CAT 2006 | Question: 41
Read the passage and answer the question. My aim is to present a conception of justice which generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the familiar theory of the social contract. In order to do this we are not to think of the ... to all. A hypothetical society in which principles of justice are not based on the existing positions and powers of the individuals.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 28, 2015

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CAT 2006 | Question: 39
Read the passage and answer the question. Fifteen years after communism was officially pronounced dead, its spectre seems once again to be haunting Europe. , Last month, the Council of Europe parliamentary assembly voted to condemn the crimes ... principles of imperialism. While communism was never limited to Europe, both the Nazis and the colonialists originated in Europe.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 27, 2015

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CAT 2006 | Question: 36
Read the passage and answer the question. Fifteen years after communism was officially pronounced dead, its spectre seems once again to be haunting Europe. , Last month, the Council of Europe parliamentary assembly voted to condemn ... viewed as imperialistic by proponents of communism. Communist ideology is faulted because communist regimes resulted in economic failure.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 27, 2015

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CAT 2006 | Question: 31
The following paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. I am sometimes attacked for imposing rules'. Nothing could be further ... be systematic about consumer behaviour. Fundamentally it is about consumer behaviour i.e., not about celebrities or type settings.

go_editor asked in Logical Reasoning Dec 23, 2015

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CAT 2007 | Question: 73
Read the passage and answer the give question. Every civilized society lives and thrives on a silent and profound agreement as to what is to be accepted as the valid mould of experience. Civilization is the complex system of dams, dykes and ... difference between width' and depth' of creative power. The difference between the legendary character and a modern day singer

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 18, 2015

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The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with toxins of diseases until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to fight ... horses were given immunity to diseases generally quite immune to diseases given medicines to fight toxins given diphtheria and tetanus serums

Akash Kanase asked in English Language Dec 17, 2015

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CAT 2007 | Question: 66
Read the passage and answer the following question. Human biology does nothing to human society. Age may enfeeble us all, but cultures vary considerably in prestige and power they accord to the elderly. Giving birth is a ... reciprocal roles. Human behavior dependents on biological linkages and reciprocal roles. Reciprocal roles determine normative human behavior in society

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 15, 2015

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CAT 2007 | Question: 60
Read the passage and answer the below question. The difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists and evolutionary ... . Isolated islands, in so far as they are inhabited, arouse curiosity about how human beings evolved there.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 12, 2015

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CAT 2007 | Question: 57
The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Characters are also part of deep structure. Characters tie ... . The personification of a whole organization is a textual device we use to make macro-level theories more comprehensible.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 12, 2015

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CAT 2007 | Question: 54
Read the passage and answer the question. To discover the relation between the rules, paradigms and normal science, consider first how the historian isolates the particular loci of commitment that have been described as accepted rules. Close ... into a paradigm Ways of understanding a scientific tradition The frustrations of attempting to define a paradigm of a tradition

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 12, 2015

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CAT 2008 | Question: 86
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. When i was little, children were bought two kinds of ice cream, sold from those white wagons with canopies made of silvery ... consumer civilization gives away exactly what the thing is worth. The consumer civilization attempts to spoil children and adults alike.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 5, 2015

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CAT 2008 | Question: 81
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a ... is a cultural invention. Language is learnt as we grow. Language is unique to Homo sapiens. Language is a psychological faculty.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 4, 2015

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CAT 2008 | Question: 76
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. To summarize the Classic Maya collapse, we can tentatively identify five strands. I acknowledge, however, that Maya archaeologists ... fighting with each other. various ethnic groups competing for political power. various ethnic groups fighting for their identity.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 4, 2015

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CAT 2008 | Question: 71
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. A remarkable aspect of art of the present century is the range of concepts and ideologies which is embodies. It is ... people blessed with creative muse. patronage by the rich and powerful that supported art. systematic investigation, codifications and conventions.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 4, 2015

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CAT 2008 | Question: 67
Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at ... is not concerned. But other will take their place, he thought. These hands are steady enough, but they are large.

go_editor asked in English Language Dec 2, 2015

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