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CAT 2020 Slot 3 VARC

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · 26 questions · 40 minutes · +3 / −1 (no negative marking on type-in answers)

Questions

  1. Q1. From the passage, we can infer that feminist scholars’ understanding of the experiences of Victorian women tra…
  2. Q2. From the passage, we can infer that travel writing is most similar to:
  3. Q3. From the passage, it can be inferred that scholars argue that Victorian women experienced self-development thr…
  4. Q4. American travel literature of the 1920s:
  5. Q5. According to the passage, Said’s book, “Orientalism”:
  6. Q6. The author has differing views from Bregman regarding:
  7. Q7. According to the passage, the “collapse of civilisations” is viewed by Bregman as:
  8. Q8. None of the following views is expressed in the passage EXCEPT that:
  9. Q9. According to the author, the main reason why Bregman contrasts life in pre-agricultural societies with agricul…
  10. Q10. Which of the following statements about the negative effects of screen time is the author least likely to endo…
  11. Q11. The statement “The richer you are, the more you spend to be off-screen” is supported by which other line from …
  12. Q12. The author is least likely to agree with the view that the increase in screen-time is fuelled by the fact that…
  13. Q13. The author claims that Silicon Valley tech companies have tried to “confuse the public” by:
  14. Q14. Which one of the following, if false, could be seen as supporting the author’s claims?
  15. Q15. Which one of the following, if true, would be an accurate inference from the first sentence of the passage?
  16. Q16. Which one of the following best captures the main argument of the last paragraph of the passage?
  17. Q17. All of the following, if true, could be seen as supporting the arguments in the passage, EXCEPT:
  18. Q18. According to the passage, the author is likely to be supportive of which one of the following programmes?
  19. Q19. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the esse…
  20. Q20. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Deci…
  21. Q21. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the esse…
  22. Q22. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Deci…
  23. Q23. Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coh…
  24. Q24. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the esse…
  25. Q25. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Deci…
  26. Q26. Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coh…