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CAT 2018 Slot 1 VARC

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

Questions

  1. Q1. Which of the following interventions would the author most strongly support:
  2. Q2. The author lists all of the following as negative effects of the use of plastics EXCEPT the:
  3. Q3. In the first paragraph, the author uses “lie” to refer to the:
  4. Q4. In the second paragraph, the phrase “what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper” means:
  5. Q5. It can be inferred that the author considers the Keep America Beautiful organisation:
  6. Q6. Which of the following statements best expresses the overall argument of this passage?
  7. Q7. In the first paragraph, Bradshaw uses the term "violence" to describe the recent change in the human-elephant …
  8. Q8. The passage makes all of the following claims EXCEPT
  9. Q9. Which of the following measures is Bradshaw most likely to support to address the problem of elephant aggressi…
  10. Q10. In paragraph 4, the phrase, “The fabric of elephant society . . . has(s) effectively been frayed by . . .” is:
  11. Q11. In the first paragraph, the author laments the fact that
  12. Q12. The author lists all of the following as outcomes of the Second World War EXCEPT:
  13. Q13. The phrase “mood music” is used in the second paragraph to indicate that the Second World War is viewed as:
  14. Q14. The author suggests that a major reason why India has not so far acknowledged its role in the Second World War…
  15. Q15. The author claims that omitting mention of Indians who served in the Second World War from the new National Wa…
  16. Q16. According to the author, wearable technologies and social media are contributing most to:
  17. Q17. The author’s view would be undermined by which of the following research findings?
  18. Q18. According to the author, Dubai:
  19. Q19. In the author's opinion, the shift in thinking in the 1970s:
  20. Q20. From the passage we can infer that the author would like economists to:
  21. Q21. The passage uses the metaphor of a dog walker to argue that evolutionary adaptation is most comprehensively un…
  22. Q22. Which of the following options best describes the author's argument?
  23. Q23. The Emory University experiment with mice points to the inheritance of:
  24. Q24. Which of the following, if found to be true, would negate the main message of the passage?
  25. Q25. 1. Impartiality and objectivity are fiendishly difficult concepts that can cause all sorts of injustices even …
  26. Q26. 1. The eventual diagnosis was skin cancer and after treatment all seemed well. 2. The viola player didn’t know…
  27. Q27. 1. The woodland’s canopy receives most of the sunlight that falls on the trees. 2. Swifts do not confine thems…
  28. Q28. 1. But now we have another group: the unwitting enablers. 2. Democracy and high levels of inequality of the ki…
  29. Q29. Artificial embryo twinning is a relatively low-tech way to make clones. As the name suggests, this technique m…
  30. Q30. Production and legitimation of scientific knowledge can be approached from a number of perspectives. To study …
  31. Q31. The conceptualization of landscape as a geometric object first occurred in Europe and is historically related …
  32. Q32. 1. Displacement in Bengal is thus not very significant in view of its magnitude. 2. A factor of displacement i…
  33. Q33. 1. In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action. 2. For people to cont…
  34. Q34. 1. Translators are like bumblebees. 2. Though long since scientifically disproved, this factoid is still routi…