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CAT 2017 Slot 1 VARC

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · 34 questions · 60 minutes · +3 / −1 (no negative marking on type-in answers)

Questions

  1. Q1. Which one of the following best describes what the passage is trying to do?
  2. Q2. Early maps did NOT put north at the top for all the following reasons EXCEPT
  3. Q3. According to the passage, early Chinese maps placed north at the top because
  4. Q4. It can be inferred from the passage that European explorers like Columbus and Megellan
  5. Q5. Which one of the following about the northern orientation of modern maps is asserted in the passage
  6. Q6. The role of natural phenomena in influencing map-making conventions is seen most clearly in
  7. Q7. The printing press has been likened to the Internet for which one of the following reasons?
  8. Q8. According to the passage, the invention of the printing press did all of the following EXCEPT
  9. Q9. Steve Jobs predicted which one'of the following with the introduction of the iPhone?
  10. Q10. "I'm still waiting to see if the iPhone can do what the printing press did for religion and democracy." The au…
  11. Q11. The author attributes the French and American revolutions to the invention of the printing press because
  12. Q12. The main conclusion of the passage is that the new technology has
  13. Q13. The central idea of this passage is that:
  14. Q14. Why does the author say in paragraph 2, 'the massive distribution centers Amazon has opened across the country…
  15. Q15. In paragraph 1, the phrase "real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court" suggests that they
  16. Q16. The author calls the mall an ecosystem unto itself because
  17. Q17. Why does the author say that the mall has been America's public square?
  18. Q18. The author describes 'Perfume clouds in the department stores' in order to
  19. Q19. Which of the following best sums up Ehrlich and Raven's argument in their classic 1969 paper?
  20. Q20. All of the following statements are true according to the passage EXCEPT
  21. Q21. The author discusses Mayr, Ehrlich and Raven to demonstrate that
  22. Q22. The central point in the first paragraph is that the economic benefits of the Olympic Games
  23. Q23. Sports facilities built for the Olympics are not fully utilised after the Games are over because
  24. Q24. The author feels that the Games place a burden on the host city for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that
  25. Q25. 1. The process of handing down implies not a passive transfer, but some contestation in defining what exactly …
  26. Q26. 1. Scientists have for the first time managed to edit genes in a human embryo to repair a genetic mutation, fu…
  27. Q27. 1. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human m…
  28. Q28. 1. This visual turn in social media has merely accentuated this announcing instinct of ours, enabling us with …
  29. Q29. To me, a "classic" means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood: a work is classical by rea…
  30. Q30. A translator of literary works needs a secure hold upon the two languages involved, supported by a good measur…
  31. Q31. For each of the past three years, temperatures have hit peaks not seen since the birth of meteorology, and pro…
  32. Q32. 1. People who study children's language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear …
  33. Q33. 1. Neuroscientists have just begun studying exercise's impact within brain cells — on the genes themselves. 2.…
  34. Q34. 1. The water that made up ancient lakes and perhaps an ocean was lost. 2. Particles from the Sun collided with…