Free English Usage - 06 Practice Test - CAT 

PASSING (CAT 2004)

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(A) The balance of power will shift to the East as China and India evolve.
(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 and South Korea, but neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries.
(D) China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy.

(2005)

(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.

(2005)

(A) When virtuoso teams begin their work, individuals are in and group consensus is out.
(B) As project progresses, however, the individual starts 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.

(2005)

(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 temperaturesallow 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 apart.
(C) Many an offending chemicals have now been banned.
(D) It will still take several decades before these substances have disappeared from the atmosphere.

(2005)

A. Last Sunday, Archana had nothing to do.
B. After waking up, she lay on the bed thinking of what to do.
C. At 11 o'clock she took shower and got ready.
D. She spent most of the day shopping.                   
(CAT 2004)

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.
(CAT 2004)

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.
(CAT 2004)

Physicians may soon have _____ to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the ____ nerves that once controlled their muscles. (CAT 2003)

The Internet is a medium where users have nearly _____ choices and _____ constraints about where to go and what to do. (CAT 2003)

The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious, for when punctuation, or lack of it, _____ itself, it is usually because it _____.

The argument that the need for a looser fiscal policy to _____ demand outweighs the need to _____ budget deficits, is persuasive.

The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had _____ to sit at home and think about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and _____ the world.