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CAT 2000 | Question: 52
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. This very ... enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. EABCD BDEAC BCDAE ECDAB

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of senten...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 51
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. If caught in ... the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure. BECDA ECADB BCDAE ECDAB

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of senten...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 50
The manners and ________ of the nouveau riche is a recurrent ________ in literature. style, motif morals, story wealth, theme morals, theme

The manners and ________ of the nouveau riche is a recurrent ________ in literature.style, motif morals, storywealth, theme morals, theme

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CAT 2000 | Question: 49
In these bleak and depressing times of ________ prices, non-performing governments and ________ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about. escalating, increasing spiralling, booming spiralling, soaring ascending, debilitating

In these bleak and depressing times of ________ prices, non-performing governments and ________ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about.es...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 48
It will take some time for many South Koreans to ________ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ________ what to make of their northern cousins. reconcile, decide understand, clarify make out, decide reconcile, understand

It will take some time for many South Koreans to ________ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ________ what to make of their northern cousins.reconcile, d...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 47
The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree, even if it grows on one’s own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the government, this legal provision leads to a riproaring business for ________, who care neither for the ________, nor for the trees. middlemen, rich the government, poor touts, rich touts, poor

The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree, even if it grows on one’s own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal ...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 46
Though one eye is kept firmly on the ________, the company now also promotes ________ contemporary art. present, experimental future, popular present, popular market, popular

Though one eye is kept firmly on the ________, the company now also promotes ________ contemporary art.present, experimentalfuture, popularpresent, popularmarket, popular...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 45
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labeled A,B,C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the four given ... pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,' went a Slovak saying. ACDB DBCA ABCD DCBA

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labeled A,B,C ...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 44
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from ... parts can be defended as mere mistakes or aberrant misreading. 6. Scientists fudging data have no such defences. BDCA ABDC CADB CDBA

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 43
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from among the ... fiction. 6. However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist ideologies. DBAC ABCD BACD DACB

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 42
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences ... aggressiveness and reduce injuries; they might even improve productivity, since a happy chicken is a productive chicken. DCAB CDBA DBAC BDCA

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 41
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences from ... changes with the angle as you look at the surface, different colours look bright from different viewing angles. ABCD BADC BDAC DCAB

Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A,B,C...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 33
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. The teaching and transmission of North Indian classical music is, and long has been, achieved by largely oral means. The raga and its structure, the often breathtaking intricacies of ... to beget. The music composer notates his music and thus becomes the father of a particular piece of music.

The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.The teaching and transmission of North Indian classical music is, and long has been, achieved by...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 25
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. The story begins as the European pioneers crossed the Alleghenies and started to settle in the Midwest. The land they found was covered with forests. With incredible ... the likely outcomes of another innovation. Contrasting two contexts separated in time, to illustrate how deserts' have arisen.

The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.The story begins as the European pioneers crossed the Alleghenies and started to settle in the M...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 17
The passage given below is followed by questions. Choose the best answer for each question. In a modern computer, electronic and magnetic storage technologies play complementary roles. Electronic memory chips are fast but volatile (their contents are lost when ... on the surface of a spinning disk and alignment of magnetic dots on the surface of a conventional memory chip.

The passage given below is followed by questions. Choose the best answer for each question.In a modern computer, electronic and magnetic storage technologies play complem...

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CAT 2000 | Question: 9
The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer. One of the criteria by which we judge the vitality of a style of painting is its ability to renew itself-its responsiveness to the changing nature and quality of experience ... politics or art. The impact of mass media on viewers' expectations has not been assessed, and responded to, by abstractionism.

The passage given below is followed by a question. Choose the best answer.One of the criteria by which we judge the vitality of a style of painting is its ability to rene...

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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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go_editor asked Mar 10, 2016

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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.

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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: 40
In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate. FOR He has a great eye for detail. We are waiting for the day. I can’t bear for her to be angry. It could not be done forever.

In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate...

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CAT 2005 | Question: 39
In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate. HAND I have my hand full, I cannot do it today. The minister visited the jail ... hand. The situation is getting out of hand here. When the roof of my house was blown away, he was willing to lend me hand.

In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate...

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CAT 2005 | Question: 38
In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate. NEAR I got there just after you left – a near miss! She and her near friend left early. Te war lead to near doubling of prices. They came near to tears seeing the plight of victims.

In the question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the best option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or in appropriate...

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CAT 2005 | Question: 37
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logival order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. This is ... can describe their fluctuations. This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born. ADCBE EBDCA ABDCE DCBEA

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logival order of sentenc...

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