Verbal For XAT 2019 - CAT MCQ

Carefully read the following paragraph: 

Who could resist the idea of remembering everything they wanted to, without trying? Learning would be made easy, exams a ______ and you would never forget where you left your keys. And memory-related disorders like Alzheimer’s would have met their match. So, it is of little surprise that scientists have turned their attention to ways of ______ human memory using techniques that ______, supplement or even mimic parts of the brain. The immediate goal is to treat memory disorders, but the idea of a memory ______ for everyday life is gaining ground.

Fill in the blanks in the above paragraph, with the best option from among the following:

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows: 

1. They subjected the residues from sherds of the rhyta- vessels to radiocarbon dating to determine their ages and chromatography -mass spectrometry (GC-MS) - to identify their structure and isotopic composition and found that the vessels were used to store cheese. 

2. In many Neolithic sites near the Adriatic Sea, researchers unearthed cone-shaped clay vessels, known as rhyta, with four legs on the bottom and a round opening on the side. 

3. Fresh milk couldn’t be kept for long without going bad; cheese, on the other hand, could be stored for months at a time, providing much-needed calories to early farmers between harvests. 

4. Archaeologists who used to assume animals such as cows and goats were mainly used for meat early in their domestication history are thus forced to admit that humans might have been using animals for dairy quite early in their domestication history. 

5. “If you kill one cow, you eat meat for about a week until it goes off; but by milking the animals, the farmer would be spreading the food gain from that animal over several months rather than just one week” 

Rank the above five statements so as to make it a logical sequence:

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows: 

1. An in-depth exploration of the Indian case and case studies of early adopters of mobile technology will provide spectrum managers a pragmatic and modern approach whereby they could utilize their resources efficiently and optimally. 

2. Even as spectrum management regimes are moving from a command and control regime to a flexible use regime, new technological developments are suggesting that there are significant opportunities in managing large swathes of spectrum as a common property resource, in addition to flexible use. 

3. Political legacies and market realities in different regimes pose unique challenges for spectrum managers who must negotiate a tricky path to the land promised by technological possibility. 

4. On the other hand, supply of spectrum is restricted due to the competing nature of uses and vested interests of incumbent holders. 

5. The demand for spectrum has never been so acute as today's communication services extend beyond simple voice to complex data and video, augmented by evolving technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, social networking, Fourth and Fifth Generation networks, Big Data, and cloud computing.

Rank the above five statements so as to make it a logical sequence:

Read the poem given below and answer the question that follows it: 

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.

Where do the black trees go that drink here?

Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers. 

Their leaves do not wish us to hurry: 

They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold words shake from the oar.

The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.

A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand; Stars opening among the lilies.

Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?

This is the silence of abandoned souls.

Q. Which of the following options best explains the effect of the images in Line 1?

Read the poem given below and answer the question that follows it: 

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.

Where do the black trees go that drink here?

Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers. 

Their leaves do not wish us to hurry: 

They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold words shake from the oar.

The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.

A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand; Stars opening among the lilies.

Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?

This is the silence of abandoned souls.

Q. Which of the following options presents a convincing evaluation of the line, ‘Stars opening among the lilies’?

Go through the following: 

1. Mood disorders do not lead to creativity 

2. The flexibility of creative occupations makes them more appealing to people with mood disorder 

3. Mood swings in creative professions is less prevalent than in non-creative professions 

Which of the following would undermine the passage’s main argument?

All of the following can be inferred from the passage except:

Which of the following will make the authors contention in the passage fallacious?

Which of the following statements if true, is contrary to the ideas developed in the passage?

An American female politician might not be expected to exhibit the features of public discourse discussed in the passage while ______.

Which one of the following, if true, would make the core argument of the passage irrelevant?

A young man visits a critically acclaimed modern art exhibition in his city and finds that he doesn’t like any of the exhibits. If he were to share his experience with the author of the passage, which of the following is most likely to be the author’s response?

What according to the passage is the prerequisite to appreciate art?

When the writer observes, ‘This is not arrogance; of course, they can absorb in a few moments, and without any effort, the sum of the artist and the art’, he is being _____.

Which of the options below is false according to the passage?

Which of the options will complete the statement given below meaningfully and appropriately, according to the passage?

Disgust is not a self-transcending emotion because it ________.

Which of the options below correctly identifies the function of elevation?

Which of the statements below is least fallacious?

Which option does not reflect the relationship implicit in ‘Emendation : Editor’?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows: 

Empirical observation told us years ago that goats were slowly becoming the new dog, and according to a new study, they are truly qualified to be man’s best friend. The Royal Society released heart-warming research showing that just like humans, goats have no desire to interact with people who come off as angry or upset, and that they’re much more attracted to those with big smiles plastered across their faces. When 12 males and 8 females were released into a pen decorated with images of happy and angry humans, the scientists learned that goats can “distinguish between happy and angry images of the same person,” and in general, they prefer their humans to be happy.

Q. Which of the following statements is definitely true according to the passage?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows: 

An accurate measure of drug efficacy would require comparing the response of patients taking it with that of patients taking placebos; the drug effect could then be calculated by subtracting the placebo response from the overall response, much as a deli counter worker subtracts the weight of the container to determine how much lobster salad you’re getting. In the last half of the 1950s, this calculus gave rise to a new way to evaluate drugs: the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, in which neither patient nor clinician knew who was getting the active drug and who the placebo.

Q. Which of the options is a wrong answer to this Question How does a double-blind ensure a better trial of a new drug?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows: 

Alligators are freshwater reptiles. However, people have come face to face with them in mud in a salt marsh in Georgia. Finding alligators in the salt marsh is not a mystery or a miracle. At least 23 species of predator have been spotted living in surprising habitats. Predators such as alligators, otters, mountain lions, wolves and raptors are thriving in places they shouldn't, revealing some serious misunderstandings about their behaviour and how to protect them. Scientific literature divulges that these creatures are actually returning to places they once occupied. It gives us astonishing insights into the lives of animals and helps conservationists improve the old stomping grounds of these creatures.

Q. Which of the following statements provides the most plausible explanation of the predators' behaviour?

Study the text given below and answer the question that follows it: 

Dense, dirty air laced with grease best describes the atmosphere of most Lagos streets. Drive from one corner of this great west African city to another and in no time you will find surfaces lightly dusted, like a soft sprinkling of icing on cakes. Under the half moons of fingernails, thick grime settles. It’s a scene taken as typically African: polluted, bedraggled, unhealthy. This has only ever been made possible by the exploitation of Africa’s people. This week five west African countries, Nigeria included, announced plans to end the practice of European oil companies and traders exporting “African quality” diesel. “Dirty fuel” has earned the name because it is an imported diesel with sulphur levels as high as 3,000 parts per million when the European maximum is 10 ppm. To be clear, “African quality” fuel is fuel not fit for European humans.

Q. Which of the options is not necessarily the underlying assumption of the author in the paragraph above?