CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Critical Reasoning questions
CAT/1999
Question . 18
Directions for Questions: Read the information in each question given below and answer the question that follows:
Animals in general are shrewd in proportion as they cultivate society. Elephants and beavers show the greatest signs of this sagacity when they are together in large numbers, but when man invades their communities they lose all their spirit of industry. Among insects, the labours of the bee and the ant have attracted the attention and admiration of naturalists, but all their sagacity seems to be lost upon separation, and a single bee or ant seems destitute of every degree of industry. It becomes the most stupid insect imaginable, and it languishes and soon dies.
Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Critical Reasoning question
(b) comes across as the only logical inference from the passage where it is shown that animals in general can function when they are in their normal social environment as explained through the examples of bees, ants, elephant & beavers who cannot work properly when separated or invaded by humans.