CAT VARC QUIZ 13

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Question 1:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.

Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.
Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

Question 2:

Direction :- The four sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D) 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. 

(a) We tend to see the similarity withing a category as being more important, and the similarity between different categories as being less important, that either actually is.

(b) Given a small amount of information about a person, we are ready to classify them as a member of a particular group, and then to infer all kinds of additional facts about them, as if all members of the group were the same in most respects.

(c) Our tendency to classify and label everything can lead us into the error of seeing the world as made up of only those categories for which we have names.

(d) Expecting too much of the descriptive power of languages is itself a serious cause of distorted thinking.

Question 3:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.

Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

The blame for the environmental crisis facing the Earth lies with

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.
Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

Question 4:

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American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and  every girl in some tribes)spent a night or a few days and  nights, alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.

The purpose of the retreat was to

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and every girl in some tribes)spent a night or a few days and nights, alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.

Question 5:

Direction :- The four sentences labelled (A),(B),(C),(D) 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

(a) In the past, the customized tailoring units were localized to the township or city and catered exclusively to domestic demand.

(b) Traditionally, Indian preferred custommade clothing and the concept of ready to wear is a relatively recent one.

(c) Consumer awareness of styling issues and the convenience afforded by ready to wear helped the RMG industry makes small inroads into the domestic market in the 1980s.

(d) The customized tailoring outfits have always been a major source of clothing for domestic market.

Question 6:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.

Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

According to the passage, nobody knows the truth because

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.
Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

Question 7:

Direction:- The short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best from the given options to make the passage complete and coherent.

For a federal country like India, the budget of the Government of India is the most important instrument for implementing various economic and social object. The budgets of state government affect local activities. The Government of India budget influences the whole economy. The latter tries to bring about growth with social justice through its budget; it influences regional, functional and overall distribution of income and wealth through its expenditure (transfer) payments, investments and tax policies. The provisions of grants and loans to state governments and Union Territories and to the private sector and various subsidies (such as for export promotion, food grains distribution, etc.) are some of the elements of Central government budget policy for promoting growth and income distribution………… Its significance lies in its ability to promote the various objectives of a modern state which has assumed the role of a welfare state and of catalytic agent for promoting growth with social justice.

Question 8:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and every girl in some tribes) spent a night or a few days and nights, alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.

The ceremony of the solitary retreat was observed by

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and every girl in some tribes) spent a night or a few days and nights, alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.

Question 9:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.

Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

What does the comparison in the last sentence of the passage convey?

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war.
Scientific understanding is too limited to say where the truth lies. If the care of the planet is a management task, our species is in the position of a child who has to fly a jet plane without knowing what all the switches and levers do.

Question 10:

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage 


American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and every girl in some tribes)spent a nights,  or a few days and night alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.

The way to perform the vigil was

Direction for Reading Comprehension :- Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage

American-Indians believed that there were spirits everywhere in nature that made the grass and plants grow and the wind blow. Every bird and animal had a spirit. To obtain some of this mystery power from nature and to secure the lifelong protection of an individual spirit, every boy (and every girl in some tribes)spent a night, a few days and night alone alone, at a solitary place believed to be especially strong in supernatural power. Usually, the longest vigil was four nights in the plains and five in the plateau, for these were mystic numbers. Fasting and thirsting, the children waited for a voice to speak to them.