4/22/2019 CAT - I English

Started on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 1:04 PM

State Finished
Completed on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 1:27 PM
Time taken 23 mins 7 secs
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Read the passage and answer the following questions followed by the passage
When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched.
And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way
through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have,
instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles,
books, and images (including images she shouldn’t be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far. Now, having been stuck with the
library stick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge
their parents. “Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?” That the reality of machines can outpace
the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in
communication we’re living with are unprecedented. It isn’t just that we’ve lived one technological revolution among many; it’s that
our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with.
The past twenty years have seen a revolution less in morals, which have remained mostly static, than in means: you could already
say “fuck” on HBO back in the eighties; the change has been our ability to tweet or IM or text it. The set subject of our novelists is
information; the set obsession of our dons is what it does to our intelligence. The scale of the transformation is such that an ever-
expanding literature has emerged to censure or celebrate it. A series of books explaining why books no longer matter is a paradox
that Chesterton would have found implausible, yet there they are, and they come in the typical favors: the eulogistic, the alarmed,
the sober, and the gleeful.
When the electric toaster was invented, there were, no doubt, books that said that the toaster would open up horizons for breakfast
undreamed of in the days of burning bread over an open name; books that told you that the toaster would bring an end to the days
of creative breakfast, since our children, growing up with uniformly sliced bread, made to it a single opening, would never know
what a loaf of their own was like; and books that told you that sometimes the toaster would make breakfast better and sometimes it
would make breakfast worse, and that the cost for finding this out would be the price of the book you’d just bought.

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Question 1 What is the key part of the passage that indicates the author’s tone?
Incorrect
Select one:
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1.00 a. The 3rd paragraph

b. The 2nd Paragraph

c. Both 1 and 2
d. The 1st paragraph

The correct answer is: The 3rd paragraph

Question 2 Which of the following best describes the author’s tone?

Incorrect
Select one:
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1.00 a. Satirical
b. Absurd

c. Bemused

d. Sardonic

The correct answer is: Sardonic

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Question 3 Which of the following best describes the content and the organization of the passage ?
Correct
Select one:
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1.00 a. The author is trying to logically make a point about an issue and is presenting arguments and counter arguments for the
same.

b. The author is trying to understand or analyse a concept or a point of view.

c. The author is trying to present his view on an issue or situation by recounting his personal experiences.
d. The author is describing or providing information about a thing, event or idea.

The correct answer is: The author is trying to logically make a point about an issue and is presenting arguments and counter
arguments for the same.

Question 4 Which of the following is the author's view on the books that examine the effect of technological revolution amidst which we live?
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Select one:
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1.00 a. It is strange that there are so many books devoted to it.
b. Most of these books take up standard position and offer no insight.

c. These books focus too much on the recent technological changes and note enough on the moral ones.

d. Both A and B

The correct answer is: It is strange that there are so many books devoted to it.

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Question 5 Choose the correct option for the bold portion of the sentence from the following
Incorrect Denim jeans were originally worn not so much as a fashion statement as for their being practical work clothes.
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1.00 Select one:
a. Denim jeans were originally worn not so much as a fashion statement as for their being practical work clothes.

b. Denim jeans were originally worn not so much as a fashion statement but for being practical work clothes
c. Denim jeans were originally worn not so much as a fashion statement but for their being practical work clothes.
d. Denim jeans were originally worn not as a fashion statement as for them being practical work clothes.

The correct answer is: Denim jeans were originally worn not so much as a fashion statement as for their being practical work
clothes.

Question 6 Choose the correct option for the bold portion of the paragraph from the following:
Correct I hardly have any money to give you.
Mark 1.00 out of
1.00 Select one:
a. I have hardly any money to give you.

b. I have no money to give you.

c. No correction

d. I have hardly money to give you

The correct answer is: I have no money to give you.

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Question 7 Choose the correct option for the bold portion of the sentence from the following
Correct Except for you and I, everyone brought a present to the party.
Mark 1.00 out of
1.00
Select one:
a. Except for you and I, everyone had brought

b. With the exception of you and I, everyone brought

c. Expect for you and I, everyone had brought

d. Expect for you and me, everyone brought

The correct answer is: Expect for you and me, everyone brought

Question 8 Choose the correct option from the bold portion of the paragraph from the following
Incorrect Today this is a totally different world than we have seen in the last decade.
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1.00 Select one:
a. from what we have seen
b. than what we seen

c. from what we seen

d. then we have seen

The correct answer is: from what we have seen

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Question 9 Choose the correct option which can replace the underlined sentence.
Incorrect
The administration discussed whether the number of students studying European languages was likely to decline when the senior
Mark 0.00 out of
lecturer retired.
1.00

Select one:
a. if the students studying European languages were likely

b. whether the number of students studying European languages were likely

c. Whether the number of students studying European languages was likely

d. if the number of European languages students were likely

The correct answer is: Whether the number of students studying European languages was likely

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Question 10 Direction - Arrange the following in logical order:
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Mark 0.00 out of 1. Caffeine increases adrenaline levels in the blood.

1.00 2. Adrenaline is the hormone that’s meant to be released when we are under stress and need to muster energy to, say, outrun a
bear or lift a fallen boulder off our climbing partner.
3. When we sense danger, for example, the pituitary gland activates the adrenal glands to secrete epinephrine, or adrenaline, into
our blood.
4. Caffeine is the most consumed stimulant in the world.
5. The chemical induces reactions throughout the body that normally occur in intense situations.

Select one:
a. 31542

b. 34251
c. 43521

d. 45321

The correct answer is: 45321

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Question 11 In the question below, there is a sentence with jumbled up parts. Rearrange these parts which are labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4….. to
Correct produce a grammatically correct and coherent sentence:

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1.00 The effectiveness of a show….
1. the needs of the audience
2. is judged by
3. and by its relation to
4. its theme.

Select one:
a. 1234

b. 1423

c. 2431
d. 2314

The correct answer is: 2431

Question 12 Complete the phrasal verbs with the correct particles:I don't know where my book is. I must look___ it.
Correct
Select one:
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1.00 a. For
b. Out with

c. In with
d. Down

The correct answer is: For

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Question 13 Choose the most appropriate meaning from the options given below for the idiom/phrase given in bold:
Incorrect He is the person you would like to have around when the chips are down.
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1.00 Select one:
a. behave recklessly

b. trigger a feeling
c. when a situation is urgent or desperate.

d. fresh start

The correct answer is: when a situation is urgent or desperate.

Question 14 Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Correct Jules Rimet Cup was awarded ___ Brazil after ___ third World Cup triumph in Mexico in 1970.
Mark 1.00 out of
1.00 Select one:
a. to, his

b. for, its

c. to, its

The correct answer is: to, its

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Question 15 Choose the word or set of words for each blank in the following questions that best fits the meaning of the sentence.
Correct

Mark 1.00 out of Every sensible citizen abides --------- the law of the country.
1.00
Select one:
a. from

b. with

c. by
d. to

The correct answer is: by

Question 16 Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Correct

Mark 1.00 out of My teacher and your teacher ___ French and English.
1.00

Select one:
a. Knowed
b. Know

c. Knows
d. Is knowing

The correct answer is: Know

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Question 17 Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Incorrect

Mark 0.00 out of My mother is a compulsive shopper, so it's not surprising that she (buy) ______ four pairs of shoes yesterday.
1.00

Select one:
a. Brought

b. Bought

c. Will buy

The correct answer is: Bought

Question 18 Choose the option with a grammatical error among the following. In the absence of error choose the option "no error":
Incorrect
Select one:
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1.00 a. The customer handed over
b. a hundred-rupees note
c. to the shopkeeper

d. no error

The correct answer is: a hundred-rupees note

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Question 19 Choose the option with a grammatical error among the following. In the absence of error choose the option "no error":
Incorrect
Select one:
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1.00 a. On the busy Ring Road

b. we witnessed a collusion

c. between a truck and an auto.

d. No error

The correct answer is: we witnessed a collusion

Question 20 Choose the option with a grammatical error among the following. In the absence of error choose the option "no error":
Correct
Select one:
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1.00 a. The house with all its
b. furniture and exotic plants

c. were sold for Rs. 50,000

d. No error

The correct answer is: were sold for Rs. 50,000

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