1. CAT-Nov 2006
(Questions Nil; Marks Nil/
100)
2. CAT-Nov 2005
(Questions 1 to 7; Marks 11/
50)
Sub-section I-A: Questions carry one mark each
Directions for Questions 1 to 3: In each question, the word at the top is
used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the
usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
1. HAND
1.
I have
my hand full, I cannot do it today.
2.
The
minister visited the jail to see the breach at first hand.
3.
The
situation is getting out of hand here!
4.
When
the roof of my house was blown away, he was willing to lend me a hand.
2. FOR
1.
He has
a great eye for detail.
2.
We are
waiting for the day.
3.
I
can’t bear for her to be angry.
4.
It
couldn’t be done for ever.
3. NEAR
- I got there just after you left—a
near miss.
- She and her near friend left early.
- The war led to a near doubling of oil
prices.
- They came near to tears seeing the
plight of the victims.
Sub-section I-B: Questions carry two marks each
Directions for Questions 4 to
7: Each question consists
of four sentences on a topic. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or
inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically correct
and appropriate sentence(s).
4. A.
The balance of power will shift to the East as China India
B Rarely the economic ascent of two still
relatively poor nations has been watched with such a mixture of awe,
opportunism, and trepidation.
C. Postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan South Korea
D. China India
1. A, B & C 2. A & D 3. C
4. C & D
5. A.
People have good reason to care about the welfare of animals.
B.
Ever since Enlightenment, their treatment has been seen as a measure of
mankind’s humanity.
C. It is no coincidence that William
Wilberforce and Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, two leaders of the movement to
abolish the slave trade, helped found the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in 1820s.
D. An increasing number of people go further:
mankind has a duty not to cause pain to animals that have the capacity to
suffer.
1. A & D 2. B 3. A & C 4. C & D
6. A.
When virtuoso teams begin their work, individuals are in and group
consensus is out.
B. As project progresses, however, the
individual stars harness themselves to the product of the group.
C. Sooner or later, the members break through
their own egocentrism and become a plurality with single-minded focus on the
goal.
D.
In short, they morph into a powerful team with a shared identity.
1. A & C 2. A & D 3. B & D 4. A, C & D
7. A.
Large reductions in the ozone layer, which sits about 15-30 km above the
Earth, take place each winter over the polar regions, especially the Antarctic,
as low temperatures allow the formation of stratospheric clouds that assist
chemical reactions breaking down ozone.
B. Industrial chemicals containing chlorine and
bromine have been blamed for thinning the layer because they attack the ozone
molecules, making them to break down.
C. Many an offending chemicals have now been
banned.
D. It will still take several decades before
these substances have disappeared from the atmosphere.
1. D 2. B & D 3. A & D 4. A & C
3. CAT-Nov 2004
(Questions 8 to 16; Marks 9/
50)
Sub-section I-A: Questions carry one mark each
Directions for Questions 8 to10: In each question, the word at the top is
used in four different ways, numbered 1 to 4. Choose the option in which the
usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
8. BOLT
1. The shopkeeper showed us a bolt of fine
silk.
2. As he could
not move, he made a bolt for the gate.
3. Could you please bolt the door?
4.
The thief was arrested before he could bolt from the scene of the crime.
9. PASSING
1. She
did not have passing marks in mathematics.
2. The mad
woman was cursing everybody passing her on the road.
3. At the
birthday party all the children enjoyed a game of passing the parcel.
4. A passing taxi was stopped to rush the
accident victim to the hospital.
10. FALLOUT
1. Nagasaki
2. People believed that the political fallout of
the scandal would be insignificant.
3. Who can predict the environmental fallout of
the WTO agreements?
4. The
headmaster could not understand the fallout of several of his good students at
the public examination.
Directions for
Questions 11 to 13: Identify
the incorrect sentence or sentences.
11. A. Harish
told Raj to plead guilty.
B. Raj
pleaded guilty of stealing money from the shop.
C The court
found Raj guilty of all the crimes he was charged with.
D. He
was sentenced for three years in jail.
1. A
and C 2. B and D 3. A,C, and D 4. B,C, and D
12. A. Last Sunday, Archana had nothing to do.
B. After
waking up, she lay on the bed thinking of what to do.
- At
- She spent most of the day shopping.
1. B
and C 2. C 3.
A and B
4. B,C, and D
13. A. It was a tough situation and Manasi was
taking pains to make it better.
B. Slowly her efforts gave fruit and things
started improving.
C. Everyone complemented her for her good
work.
D. She was very happy and thanked everyone for
their help.
1.
A
2. D 3. B and C 4. A and C
Directions for
Questions 14 to 16: Each
statement has a part missing. Choose the best option from the four options
given below the statement to make up the missing part.
14. The ancient Egyptians believed ______________ so
that when these objects were magically reanimated through the correct rituals,
they would be able to function correctly.
1.
that
it was essential that things they portrayed must have every relevant feature
shown as clearly as possible
2.
it was
essential for things they portray to have had every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible,
3.
it was
essential that the things they portrayed had every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible,
4.
that
when they portrayed things, it should have every relevant feature shown as
clearly as possible
15. Archaeologists believe that the pieces of
red-ware pottery excavated recently near Bhavnagar Gujarat .
1.
estimated with a reasonable certainty as being about 3400 years old,
2.
are estimated reasonably certain to be about 3400 years old
3. estimated
at about 3400 years old with reasonable certainty,
4.
estimated with reasonable certainty to be about 3400 years old
16. Many people suggest ___________ and still
others would like to convince people not to buy pirated cassettes.
1. to bring down audiocassette prices to
reduce the incidence of music piracy, others advocate strong legal action
against the offenders,
2. bringing down audiocassette prices to
reduce the incidents of music piracy, others are advocating strong legal action
against offenders,
3. bringing down audiocassette prices to
reduce the incidence of music piracy, others advocate strong legal action
against offenders,
4. audiocassette prices to be brought down to
reduce incidence of music piracy, others advocate that strong legal action must
be taken against offenders,
4. CAT-Feb 2004
(Questions 17 to 21; Marks 5/
50)
Directions for
Questions 17 to 21: In
each question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1
to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or
INAPPROPRIATE.
17. HELP
- This syrup will help your cold.
- I can’t help the colour of my skin.
- Ranjit may help himself with the beer in
the fridge.
- Do you really expect me to help you out
with cash?
18. PAPER
1. Your suggestions look great on the paper,
but are absolutely impractical.
2. Do you know how many trees are felled to
make a truckload of paper?
3. So far I have been able to paper over the
disagreements among my brothers.
4. Dr. Malek will read a paper on
criminalization of politics.
19. SERVICE
1. Customers have to service themselves at the
canteen.
2. It’s a service lift; don’t get into it.
3. I’m not making enough even to service the
loan.
4. Jyoti’s husband has been on active service
for three months.
20. REASON
1. Your stand is beyond all reason.
2. Has she given you any reason for her
resignation?
3. There is little reason in your pompous
advice.
4. How do you deal with a friend who doesn’t
listen to reason.
21. BUSINESS
1. I want to do an MBA before going into
business.
2. My wife runs profitable business in this
suburb.
3. If we advertise we will get twice as much
business as we have now.
4. How you spend your money is as much my
business as yours.
5. CAT-Nov 2003
(Subsequently Cancelled)
(Questions 22 to 31; Marks 10/
50)
Directions for
Questions 22 to 26: In
each question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered 1
to 4. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or
INAPPROPRIATE.
22. SORT
1.
What
sort of cheese do you use in pizza?
2.
Farmers
of all sort attended the rally.
3.
They
serve tea of a sort on these trains.
4.
Let’s
sort these boys into four groups.
23. DISTINCT
1. He is distinct about what is right and what is
wrong.
2. Mars became distinct on the horizon in the
month of August.
3. The distinct strains of Ravi ’s
violin could be heard above the general din.
4. Ghoshbabu’s is a distinct case of water rising
above its own level.
24. HOST
1. If you host the party, who will foot the bill?
2. Kerala’s forests are host to a range of
snakes.
3. Ranchi
4. A virus has infected the host computer.
25. IMPLICATION
1. Everyone appreciated the headmaster’s
implication in raising flood relief in the village.
2. This letter will lead to the implication of
several industrialists in the share market scam.
3. Several members of the audience missed the
implication of the minister’s promise.
4. Death,
by implication, is the only solution the poem offers the reader.
26. BUNDLE
1. The
newborn baby was a bundle of joy for the family.
2. Mobile
operators are offering a bundle of additional benefits.
3. He
made a bundle in the share market.
4. It was sheer luck that brought a bundle of
boy-scouts to where I was lying wounded.
Directions for
Questions 27 to 31: In
each of the questions, four different ways of presenting an idea are given.
Choose the one that conforms most closely to Standard English usage.
27. 1.
From the sixteenth century onwards, people started feeling disdainful
and self-conscious about their body and
its products that led to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily
regulations.
2. The
heightened focus on controlling the body and emotions comes from disdain and
self-consciousness about the body and its products, found in the sixteenth
century.
3. From
the sixteenth century onwards, a growing disdain for and self-consciousness
about the
body and its
products took hold, leading to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily
regulation.
4. The heightened focus on emotional and bodily
regulations started from the sixteenth century onwards, when people felt
disdain and self-consciousness about the body and its products.
28. 1.
The running of large businesses consist of getting somebody to make
something that somebody else sold to somebody else for more than its cost.
- The running of large businesses
consists of getting somebody to sell something that somebody else made for
more than it cost.
- The running of large businesses
consists of getting somebody to make something that somebody else will
sell to somebody else for more than it costs.
- The running of large businesses
consist of getting somebody to make something else that somebody else will
sell to somebody else for more than it costs.
29. 1. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an
explanation of irrational events.
- We are forced to falling back on the
fatalism as an explanation of irrational events.
- We are forced to fall back on fatalism
as explanations of irrational events.
- We are
forced to fall back to fatalism as an explanation of irrational events.
30. 1. Creativity in any field is regarded not only
as valuable for itself but also as a service to the nation.
- Creativity in any field is not
regarded only as valuable on its own, but also as a service to the nation.
- Creativity, in any field, is not only
regarded as valuable, but also as a service to the nation.
- Creativity in any field is regarded
not only as valuable in itself but also as a service to the nation.
31. 1. If
precision of thought had facilitated precision of behaviour, and if reflection
had preceded action, it would be ideal for humans.
- It would be ideal for humans if
reflection preceded action and precision of thought facilitated precision
of behaviour.
- It would be ideal for humans if
precedence of reflection was followed by action and precision of thought,
by precise behaviour.
- It would have been ideal for humans,
if precise action and behaviour preceded precise reflection.
6. CAT-Nov 2002
(Questions 32 to 35; Marks 4/
50)
Directions for
Questions 32 to 35: In
each of the questions below, four different ways of writing a sentence are
indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
32. 1. A
symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and the
politicians, and by a large
number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated
by underhand deals.
2. A symbiotic relationship develops among
contractors, bureaucracy and politicians, and costs are artificially escalated
with a large number of devices and black money is generated through underhand
deals.
3. A symbiotic relationship develops among
contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of devices
costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated on underhand
deals.
4.
A
symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and
politicians, and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated
and black money is generated by underhand deals.
33. 1. The
main problem with the notion of price discrimination is that it is not always a
bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is
charged what price.
2. The main problem with the notion of price
discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, it is the monopolist who
has the power to decide who is charged what price.
3. The main problem with the notion of price
discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, but that it is the
monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
4.
The
main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not it is always a bad
thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged
what price.
34. 1. The
distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create
difference of prices at which goods are traded on the world market and their
price within a local market.
2.
The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they
create a difference of prices at which goods are traded with the world market
and their prices in the local market.
3. The distinctive feature of tariffs and
export subsidies is that they create a difference between prices at which goods
are traded on the world market and their prices within a local market.
4.
The distinctive
feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference across
prices at which goods are traded with the world market and their prices within
a local market.
35. 1. Any
action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets
will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby
encourage excessive hedging.
2. Any action by government to reduce the
systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that
private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
3. Any action by government to reduce the
systemic risk inherent due to financial markets will also reduce the risks that
private operators perceive and thereby encourages excessive hedging.
4.
Any
action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets
will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby
encourages excessive gambling.
7. CAT-Dec 2001
(Questions Nil; Marks Nil/ 50)
8. CAT-Dec 2000
(Questions
Nil; Marks Nil/ 55)
9. CAT-Dec 1999
(Questions 36 to 43; Marks 8/
55)
Directions for Questions 36 to 43: In each of the following sentences, a part
of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of
phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative from
among the four.
36. His mother
made great sacrifices to educate him, moving house on three occasions, and severing
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make
him understand the need to persevere.
1.
severing
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make
him understand the need to persevere.
2.
severed
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make
him understand the need to persevere.
3.
severed
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make
him understand the need for persevering.
4.
severing
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons, to
make him understand the need to persevere.
37. The MP rose
up to say that, in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should
be passed on unanimously.
1.
rose
to say that she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
2.
rose
up to say that, the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on
3.
rose
to say that, in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be
passed
4.
rose
to say that, in her opinion, the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
on
38.
Bacon believes that the medical profession
should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise
only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.
1.
be
delayed by a few days and
2.
be
delayed for a few days and
3.
be
otherwise only delayed for a few days and
4.
otherwise
only delay for a few days and
39.
Many of these environmentalists proclaim to save nothing less than the
planet itself.
1.
to
save nothing lesser than
2.
that
they are saving nothing lesser than
3.
to
save nothing less than
4.
that
they save nothing less than
40.
If you are on a three-month software
design project and, in two weeks, you’ve put together a programme that
solves part of the problem, show it to your boss without delay.
1. and, you’ve put together a programme that
solves part of the problem in two weeks
2. and, in two weeks, you’ve put together a
programme that solves part of the problem
3. and, you’ve put together a programme that
has solved part of the problem in two weeks
4. and, in two weeks you put together a
programme that solved only part of the problem
41. It was us
who had left before he arrived.
- we who had left before time he had
arrived.
- us who had went before he arrived.
- us who had went before had arrived.
- we who had left before he arrived.
42.
Mr. Pillai, the president of the union
and who is also a member of the community group, will be in charge of
the negotiations.
- since he is a member of the community
group
- also being a member of the community
group
- a member of the community group
- , in addition, who is a member of the
community group
43.
Since the advent of cable television, at
the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant
stride forward in the country.
1. this decade saw the entertainment industry
taking
2. this decade, the entertainment industry has
taken
3. this decade, the entertainment industry had
taken
4. this decade, the entertainment industry
took
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (1)
6. (2) 7. (1) 8. (2) 9. (1)
10. (4)
11. (2) 12. (2) 13. (3) 14. (3) 15. (4)
16. (3) 17. (3) 18. (1) 19. (1) 20. (2)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (3)
25.
(1)
26. (4)
27.
(3) 28.
(3) 29. (1) 30. (4)
31. (2) 32. (2) 33. (3) 34. (3) 35. (2)
36. (1) 37. (1) 38. (3) 39. (4) 40. (2)
41. (4) 42.
(3) 43. (2)
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