CAT VARC QUIZ 9

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Question 1:

 Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: 

1. Most Indians love holidays, A public holiday offers special satisfaction because it is declared by the government.

2. The Bombay High court, however, reportedly pronounced that a public holiday is not a fundamental right but government policy.

3. Thus legitimizing the Indian’s illimitable capacity to enjoy leisure.

4. This, in turn, will rapidly make us the envy of the rest of India, nay the subcontinent. They will speak of the Bengal model with awe and emulatory avariciousness.

5. Thus, it made a distinction of overwhelming importance. No one can expect to have a public holiday as a matter of right, as many are wont to do.

Options are:

Question 2:

Directions:Thefour sentences labelled (P),(Q),(R),(S) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 

P:- The trade ended in the 1860s and was succeeded by a new wave of exploitation.

Q:-  Its earliest export was the indigenous population consigned as slaved to America.

R:- For the past two centuries, Africa’s roads have led to its impoverishment.

S:-  European traders realized they could use Africa’s cheap labour to extract its Abundant minerals and grow cash crops to export to Europe.

Question 3:

The four sentences labelled (P),(Q),(R),(S) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer

P:-  We now know that under the hard earth crust, there are large, thick, rocky plates floating on molten rock.

Q:-  She punished them by causing earthquakes and tidal waves and making volcanoes erupt.

R:-  Now we know that this is only a myth.

S:-  In olden days when man did not know what caused earthquake, he believed that it occurred when mother earth was angry with her wicked children.

Question 4:

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. 


A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was  awakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.

The man was called a hero because he 

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was awakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.

Question 5:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passages given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
The reason why they are trying to kill the author is that
Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passages given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

Question 6:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage. 


As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

In this passage the author assumes that doing one’s duty to one’s country. 

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

Question 7:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage. 


As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

The person who succeeds killing the author will 

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

Question 8:

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. 


A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was  awakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.

The man picked up the bundle because

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was awakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.

Question 9:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage. 


As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

The people who are flying overhead are called highly civilised because they.

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- The passage given here are followed by some questions that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.

As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

Question 10:

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. 


A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was  awakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.

The man missed the stairway because

Direction (5 to 7): The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question.

A local man, staying on the top floor of an old wooden house, was aawakened at midnight by a fire. Losing his way in a smoke-filled passage, he missed the stairway and went into another room. He picked up a bundle to protect his face from the fire and immediately fell through the floor below where he managed to escape through a clear doorway. The ‘bundle’ proved to be the baby of the Mayor’s wife. The ‘hero’ was congratulated by all.