CMAT Mock Test - 6 (New Pattern) - CAT MCQ

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

All the material composing the content of a dream is somehow derived from the experience. It is either reproduced or remembered in the dream – this at least may be accepted as an incontestable fact. Yet, it would be wrong to assume that such a connection between the dream-content and reality will be easily obvious from a comparison between the two. On the contrary, the connection must be carefully sought and in quite a number of cases, it may for a long while elude discovery. The reason for this is to be found in a number of peculiarities evinced by the faculty of memory in dreams. Peculiarities which, though generally observed, have hitherto defied explanation. It will be worth our while to examine these characteristics exhaustively. To begin with, it happens that certain material appears in the dream, content which cannot be subsequently recognised, in the waking state as being part of one's knowledge and experience. One remembers clearly enough having dreamed of the thing in question but one cannot recall the actual experience or the time of its occurrence. The dreamer is therefore in the dark as to the source which the dream has tapped and is even tempted to believe in an independent productive activity on the part of the dream, until, often long afterwards, a fresh episode restores the memory of that former experience, which had been given up for lost and so, reveals the source of the dream. One is therefore forced to admit that in the dream, something was known and remembered and that cannot be remembered in the waking state. One of the sources from which dreams draw material for reproduction, material of which some part is not recalled or utilised in our waking thoughts, is to be found in childhood.

Q. Which of the following is true about the contents of a dream?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

All the material composing the content of a dream is somehow derived from the experience. It is either reproduced or remembered in the dream – this at least may be accepted as an incontestable fact. Yet, it would be wrong to assume that such a connection between the dream-content and reality will be easily obvious from a comparison between the two. On the contrary, the connection must be carefully sought and in quite a number of cases, it may for a long while elude discovery. The reason for this is to be found in a number of peculiarities evinced by the faculty of memory in dreams. Peculiarities which, though generally observed, have hitherto defied explanation. It will be worth our while to examine these characteristics exhaustively. To begin with, it happens that certain material appears in the dream, content which cannot be subsequently recognised, in the waking state as being part of one's knowledge and experience. One remembers clearly enough having dreamed of the thing in question but one cannot recall the actual experience or the time of its occurrence. The dreamer is therefore in the dark as to the source which the dream has tapped and is even tempted to believe in an independent productive activity on the part of the dream, until, often long afterwards, a fresh episode restores the memory of that former experience, which had been given up for lost and so, reveals the source of the dream. One is therefore forced to admit that in the dream, something was known and remembered and that cannot be remembered in the waking state. One of the sources from which dreams draw material for reproduction, material of which some part is not recalled or utilised in our waking thoughts, is to be found in childhood.

Q. The dreamer can

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

All the material composing the content of a dream is somehow derived from the experience. It is either reproduced or remembered in the dream – this at least may be accepted as an incontestable fact. Yet, it would be wrong to assume that such a connection between the dream-content and reality will be easily obvious from a comparison between the two. On the contrary, the connection must be carefully sought and in quite a number of cases, it may for a long while elude discovery. The reason for this is to be found in a number of peculiarities evinced by the faculty of memory in dreams. Peculiarities which, though generally observed, have hitherto defied explanation. It will be worth our while to examine these characteristics exhaustively. To begin with, it happens that certain material appears in the dream, content which cannot be subsequently recognised, in the waking state as being part of one's knowledge and experience. One remembers clearly enough having dreamed of the thing in question but one cannot recall the actual experience or the time of its occurrence. The dreamer is therefore in the dark as to the source which the dream has tapped and is even tempted to believe in an independent productive activity on the part of the dream, until, often long afterwards, a fresh episode restores the memory of that former experience, which had been given up for lost and so, reveals the source of the dream. One is therefore forced to admit that in the dream, something was known and remembered and that cannot be remembered in the waking state. One of the sources from which dreams draw material for reproduction, material of which some part is not recalled or utilised in our waking thoughts, is to be found in childhood.

Q. The connection between the dream-content and reality

Directions: In the following question, a sentence/a part of a sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part, which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose 'No Improvement' option.

Having run there and here in rage, he stood defeated, his cries suppressed into sobs.

Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.

He _________ himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.

Directions: The given sentence may contain only one error in grammar usage, diction (choice of words) or idiom. Select the numbered part that, according to you, contains the error. If there is no error, the answer is (D), i.e. No error.

The library members were asked (A)/ to return back the books (B)/ to the library. (C)/ No error (D)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence/a part of a sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part, which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose 'No Improvement' option.

One night they sank through the shiny water, and for the first time since he has known them, began to quickly swim.

Directions: Read the passage carefully and select the best answer out of the given four alternatives.

The first thing is that the rich people of the world should start living in communes. Let those communes be of the rich! So they will not be dragged down from their standard of life, their comforts, and their luxuries. Let there be, around the world, hundreds of communes of rich people – that is, rich communes.

And to me, wealth is a certain kind of creativity. If five thousand rich people who have all created wealth individually are together, they can create wealth a millionfold.

Their standard will not go lower; their standard could go even higher. Or they can start sharing. They can start inviting people who are not rich but who are creative in some other way, who will enhance the life of their commune although they may be poor.

Five thousand rich people, together with their genius for creating wealth, are capable of creating so much wealth that they can invite thousands of other people who may not be rich in the sense of being wealthy, but who may be rich as painters, poets, dancers, singers.

What are you going to do only with wealth? You cannot play music on money; you cannot dance just because you have so much cash in the bank. And these rich communes can start becoming bigger, absorbing more and more creative people. They can make beautiful places all around the world, and slowly, new people can be absorbed.

For example, you will need plumbers, however rich you may be; you will need mechanics; technicians; you will need shoemakers. Invite them – and they come to you not as servants, but as members of the commune. Slowly, we can transform the whole world – without any bloodshed and without any dictatorship.

A communism that comes out of love, out of intelligence, out of generosity, will be real. A communism that comes through force is going to be unreal. There is not a single man in the world, howsoever poor, who has nothing to contribute. Around the world all the rich communes will need people; and slowly, slowly your commune will become bigger and bigger.

The rich will not become poor, but the poor will become rich, and respectable, and equal – in no way inferior to anybody else – because they are also functioning in the same way as anybody else. And whatever they are doing is needed as much as anybody else's expertise is needed.

Q. According to the passage, what is an advantage of rich people living in communes?

Directions: Read the passage carefully and select the best answer out of the given four alternatives.

The first thing is that the rich people of the world should start living in communes. Let those communes be of the rich! So they will not be dragged down from their standard of life, their comforts, and their luxuries. Let there be, around the world, hundreds of communes of rich people – that is, rich communes.

And to me, wealth is a certain kind of creativity. If five thousand rich people who have all created wealth individually are together, they can create wealth a millionfold.

Their standard will not go lower; their standard could go even higher. Or they can start sharing. They can start inviting people who are not rich but who are creative in some other way, who will enhance the life of their commune although they may be poor.

Five thousand rich people, together with their genius for creating wealth, are capable of creating so much wealth that they can invite thousands of other people who may not be rich in the sense of being wealthy, but who may be rich as painters, poets, dancers, singers.

What are you going to do only with wealth? You cannot play music on money; you cannot dance just because you have so much cash in the bank. And these rich communes can start becoming bigger, absorbing more and more creative people. They can make beautiful places all around the world, and slowly, new people can be absorbed.

For example, you will need plumbers, however rich you may be; you will need mechanics; technicians; you will need shoemakers. Invite them – and they come to you not as servants, but as members of the commune. Slowly, we can transform the whole world – without any bloodshed and without any dictatorship.

A communism that comes out of love, out of intelligence, out of generosity, will be real. A communism that comes through force is going to be unreal. There is not a single man in the world, howsoever poor, who has nothing to contribute. Around the world all the rich communes will need people; and slowly, slowly your commune will become bigger and bigger.

The rich will not become poor, but the poor will become rich, respectable, and equal – in no way inferior to anybody else – because they are also functioning in the same way as anybody else. And whatever they are doing is needed as much as anybody else's expertise is needed.

Q. Who all have something to contribute towards the making of the communes?

Directions: Read the passage carefully and select the best answer out of the given four alternatives.

The first thing is that the rich people of the world should start living in communes. Let those communes be of the rich! So they will not be dragged down from their standard of life, their comforts, and their luxuries. Let there be, around the world, hundreds of communes of rich people – that is, rich communes.

And to me, wealth is a certain kind of creativity. If five thousand rich people who have all created wealth individually are together, they can create wealth a millionfold.

Their standard will not go lower; their standard could go even higher. Or they can start sharing. They can start inviting people who are not rich but who are creative in some other way, who will enhance the life of their commune although they may be poor.

Five thousand rich people, together with their genius for creating wealth, are capable of creating so much wealth that they can invite thousands of other people who may not be rich in the sense of being wealthy, but who may be rich as painters, poets, dancers, singers.

What are you going to do only with wealth? You cannot play music on money; you cannot dance just because you have so much cash in the bank. And these rich communes can start becoming bigger, absorbing more and more creative people. They can make beautiful places all around the world, and slowly, new people can be absorbed.

For example, you will need plumbers, however rich you may be; you will need mechanics; technicians; you will need shoemakers. Invite them – and they come to you not as servants, but as members of the commune. Slowly, we can transform the whole world – without any bloodshed and without any dictatorship.

A communism that comes out of love, out of intelligence, out of generosity, will be real. A communism that comes through force is going to be unreal. There is not a single man in the world, however poor, who has nothing to contribute. Around the world all the rich communes will need people; and slowly, slowly your commune will become bigger and bigger.

The rich will not become poor, but the poor will become rich, respectable, and equal – in no way inferior to anybody else – because they are also functioning in the same way as anybody else. And whatever they are doing is needed as much as anybody else's expertise is needed.

Q. According to the passage, what kind of communism would we prefer?

Directions: The sentence has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for the blanks which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

I ______ a friend named Raj who ________ a horse ranch which lies just outside the city.

Directions: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

One who changes sides

Directions: Find the correct word to represent the phrase given below.

A disease peculiar to country

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

Alice pulled a _______ face when she was told that she could not go to the cinema.

Directions: The given sentence may contain only one error in grammar usage, diction (choice of words) or idiom. Select the numbered part that, according to you, contains the error. If there is no error, the answer is (D), i.e. No error.

Neither the girl nor her parents (A)/ was present (B)/ to receive the award. (C)/ No error (D)

Directions: Four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

When he asked me the way to the cafeteria, I told him to follow his nose.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

John had _______ such heavy debts that nothing short of a miracle could save him from bankruptcy.

Find the least number of oranges needed to satisfy the thirst of 23 football players if one glass of juice requires 5 oranges and each player drinks 2 glasses of juice.

A candidate is to be selected for an interview for two posts. The number of candidates for the first post is 5 and that for the second post is 6. Find the probability of getting at least one job.

A square tile has a side of 2 m. What is the number of tiles required to cover the floor of a room with dimensions 16 m x 3 m?

In ΔABC, AB = AC. If P is a point taken on the side AB such that AP = PC = CB, then the measure of angle A is

Which of the following expressions is the largest?

(4⁴), 444, 44⁴, (4²)^-4

Which of the following statements regarding quadratic equations is/are true?

(A) The quadratic equation 2x² + ax + a = 0 has real and equal roots and the values of a are 0 and 8.

(B) The sum and the product of the roots of the equation x² - 5x + 6 = 0 are 5 and 6, respectively.

(C) The roots 2 and - 1/2 form the equation 2x² - 3x - 2 = 0.

Two clocks begin to strike together. The first clock strikes every 3 seconds, while the second clock strikes every 2 seconds. What is the interval between the first clock's fifth stroke and the second clock's seventh stroke?

If the 4th term and 8th term of a GP respectively are 32 and 512, find out the 9th term of the GP.

If 3 - 3 cos A - 2 sin² A = 0, then the measure of angle A is

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

The number of products produced by different companies and the percentage of the three products produced by those companies are given below:

Q. The total number of cosmetics produced by company A and C is approximately what percent of the total number of products produced by the various companies together?