CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Critical Reasoning questions
CAT/1999
Question . 19
Directions for the Questions: For each of the two questions, indicate which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unseasonable man in the passage below.
Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she’s ill. He asks a man who has just money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services that are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at an arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree, such is the unseasonable man.
He tends to______________________
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Critical Reasoning question
According to the passage, unseasonableness is the tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. Thus (d) is the right choice as he would tend to tell a long story to people who have heard it many times before.