CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2003
Question . 74
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. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.
B. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic ‘separation wall’ now being built in the West Bank by Israel.
C. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
D. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch.
E. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel’s American allies who are going to pay for most of it.
Explanatory Answer
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(b) B begins the passage by referring to the ‘separation wall’ being built by Israel in the West Bank. A continues by saying that the wall is not a simple division, in D it is made clear that the wall takes new tracts in Palestinian land. C refers to the chilling reality of the wall which is surrounded by trenches, electric wire, moats and watchtowers at regular intervals. E concludes by stating the fact that this racist wall being set up is not being referred to by Israel American allies who are going to pay for most of it.