CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2003
Question . 71
In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.
A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than I am of an animal’s, but in this respect, I have been lucky, for most of the people I have come across have been charming.
B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal – the District Officer who drawled, ‘We chaps are here to help you chaps’, and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.
C. In these cases, of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.
D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones I have met more than compensated for them – but even so, I think I will stick to animals.
E. When you travel around the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect human beings.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(c) E begins the passage referring to the collection of animals while traveling around the world as also of the collection of human beings. C states how people go out of their way to assist an animal collector, B refers to the district officer who is the unpleasant human animal, who says that ‘he is there to help’ but then is as obstructive as possible. In D the author says that fortunately, these types of human animals are rare and in A the author concludes by saying that he is more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than of an animal’s.