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Comprehension

Directions for Questions:

Directions for Questions 51 to 54: In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2008(Verbal Ability)

Question. 1

 A. In 1849, a poor Bavarian imigrant named Levi Strauss

B. landed in San Francisco, California,

C. at the invitation of his brother-in-law David Stern

D. owner of dry goods business.

E. This dry goods business would later became known as Levi Strauss & Company

Comprehension

Directions for Questions:

Directions for Questions 51 to 54: In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2008(Verbal Ability)

Question. 2

A. In response to the allegations and condemnation pouring in,

B. Nike implemented comprehensive changes in their labour policy.

C. Perhaps. sensing the rising tide of global labour concerns,

D. from the public would become a prominent media issue,

E. Nike sought to be a industry leader in employee relations.

Comprehension

Directions for Questions:

Directions for Questions 51 to 54: In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2008(Verbal Ability)

Question. 3

A. I did not know what to make of you.

B. Because you’d lived in India, I associate you more with my parents than with me.

C. And yet you were unlike my cousins in Calcutta, who seem so innocent and obedient when I visited them.

D. You were not curious about me in the least.

E. Although you did make effort to meet me.

Comprehension

Directions for Questions: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph.

Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2007(Verbal Ability)

Question. 4

 

A. When I returned to home, I began to read

B. Everything I could get my hand on about Israel.

C. That same year Israel’s Jewish Agency sent

D. A Shaliach a sort of recruiter to Minneapolis.

E. I became one of his most active devotees.

Comprehension

Directions for Questions 54 to 56: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph.

Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2007(Verbal Ability)

Question. 5

A. So once an economy is actually in a recession,

B. The authorities can, in principle, move the economy

C. Out of slump - assuming hypothetically

D. That they know how to - by a temporary stimuli.

E. In the longer term, however, such polices have no affect on the overall behaviour of the economy.

Comprehension

Directions for Questions 54 to 56: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph.

Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

CAT/2007(Verbal Ability)

Question. 6

A. It is sometimes told that democratic B. government originated in the city-states

C. of ancient Greece. Democratic ideals have been handed to us from that time.

D. In truth, however, this is an unhelpful assertion.

E. The Greeks gave us the word, hence did not provide us with a model.

CAT/1997(Verbal Ability)

Question. 7

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

The government has given subsidies to the Navratnas but there is no telling whether the subsequent one will do.

CAT/1997(Verbal Ability)

Question. 8

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

Rahul Bajaj has done a great job of taking the company to its present status, but it is time that he let go of the reins.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 9

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

Victory is everything in the Indian universe and Tendulkar will be expected to translate his genius to that effect. To contemplate any other option is to contemplate the risk of failure.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 10

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

In Martin Amis’ new novel, the narrator is trapped-- and hurtling towards a terrible secret. Its resolution, and the dreadful revelation it brings, ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 11

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start to make sense? There is a monster out there, and it is rushing towards me over the uneven ground consciousness.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 12

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

 

Contemplating whether to exist with an insatiable romantic temperament, he was the author and largely the subject of number of memorable novels.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 13

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

In a penetrating study, CBS--TV focuses on these people without hope, whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is often neglected by disinterested society.

CAT/1996(Verbal Ability)

Question. 14

In the following question, a part of a paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

The Rumanians may be restive under Soviet direction — but they are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links.

CAT/1995(Verbal Ability)

Question. 15

In the given question, a sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c, d. Identify that part of the sentence that needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.

 

CAT/1995(Verbal Ability)

Question. 16

In the given question, a sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c, d. Identify that part of the sentence that needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.

 

CAT/1995(Verbal Ability)

Question. 17

In the given question, a sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c, d. Identify that part of the sentence that needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.

CAT/1995(Verbal Ability)

Question. 18

In the given question, a sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c, d. Identify that part of the sentence that needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.

CAT/1995(Verbal Ability)

Question. 19

In the given question, a sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c, d. Identify that part of the sentence that needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.