Free Verbal Practice Test - CAT 

The author specifically mentions all of the following as difficulties that particularly affect women who are theoreticians of feminist literary criticism EXCEPT the -

According to the author, the debate mentioned in the passage has special significance for the woman who is a theoretician of feminist literary criticism for which of the following reasons?

Which of the following methods is NOT used extensively by the author in describing his own conception of power?

The author's attitude toward the various kinds of compulsion employed by social institutions is best described as:

According to the passage, states of power are transient because of the:

It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes the conflict among social forces to be:

In which of the following examples do you think the author will agree that you are mindful?

As per the passage, which of the following is true?

A suitable title for the passage is:

Which of the following views are endorsed by the author?

Infer which "one” of the following words can you definitely associate with the word "emotions” as discussed in the passage?

(A)After making a mark on [A] in [B] the medical animation sector, Coimbatore - based Mark IV Animation Studios is in the process to launch [A] / of launching [B] an e-learning system. 
(B) Instead of resisting globalization, there should be an attempt to reap [A] / reaping [B] the the benefits it brings. 
(C) A pragmatic approach that looked at ways and means of tackling [A] / to tackle [B] the problems that globalization ushered in, is required.
(D) Driven [A] / driving [B] to the wall, distributors have found a way to circumvent the regulations.

(A)  In today's [A] / todays' competitive scenario each company should investigate into [A] /investigate [B] ways of increasing productivity.
(B)Teachers in the primary school are responsible for making sure that their pupils do behaveproperly [A] / behave properly [B]
(C)The Short-term course in English provided by the Osmania University should provide more[A] / more of [B] practical sessions.
(D)If a mountainous country has no natural resources, it has [a] so it has [B]to rely heavily onimports from other countries.

Using the phone at her desk, Sylvia in Corporate Sales consistently generates a very steady $\$$1500 per hour in gross revenue for her firm. After all of her firm's costs have been subtracted, Sylvia's sales amount to $\$$100 in bottom line (net) profits every 15 minutes. At 10:00 a.m. one day the desk phone Sylvia uses to make her sales calls breaks. Without the phone Sylvia cannot make any sales. Assume that Sylvia's regular schedule is to begin making sales calls at 8:00 a.m. Assume she works the phone for four hours, takes a one hour lunch exactly at noon, and then returns promptly to her desk for four more hours of afternoon sales. Sylvia loves her work and the broken phone is keeping her from it. If necessary she will try to repair the phone herself.

Which of the following options would be in the best interest of Sylvia's firm to remedy the broken phone problem?

Political scientist: As a political system, democracy does not promote political freedom. There are historical examples of democracies that ultimately resulted in some of the most oppressive societies. Likewise, there have been enlightened despotisms and oligarchies that have provided a remarkable level of political freedom to their subjects. The reasoning in the political scientist's argument is flawed because it

A. This applies to material goods generally and therefore to the greater part of the present economic life of the world. 
B. We may distinguish two sorts of goods, and two corresponding sorts of impulses. 
C. The food and clothing of one man is not the food and clothing of another; if the supply is insufficient, what one man has is obtained at the expense of another man.
D. On the other hand, mental and spiritual goods do not belong to one man to the exclusion of another. 
E. There are goods in regard to which individual possession is possible, and there are goods in which all can share alike.

A. Germany has been less staunch, worrying more than the others that Iran may make good on its threat to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty. 
B. Yet Iran is exhausting the patience of even the friendlier European governments. 
C. Britain and France have told Iran privately that it must fulfill its obligations to the IAEA, and also its original promise of a full suspension of enrichment-related activity. 
D. But, ultimately, it agrees with its European partners that Iran must toe the line. 
E. The reasons for the three countries' stance are not far to seek - An Iran that went nuclear despite repeated European overtures would make a mockery of European claims to be defter at diplomacy than heavy-handed America.

A. But he is also thought to be indecisive and too much of a micro-manager. 
B. He is intellectually curious, more comfortable in the spotlight than Miss Megawati, and widely viewed as a man of integrity who would be strong in times of crisis. 
C. This is amply reflected in the understanding that he won the election on character, not ideology. 
D. Though Indonesia's voters have now signaled that they want change at the top too, it is not clear that Mr. Yudhoyono can deliver on this mandate.
E. Besides these personality traits, his party worries that there is not much to separate him from Miss Megawati on policy.

A. Indians are among the fastest growing immigrant groups in the US. 
B. Mr. Ramanathan is one of them. 
C. In a $0\%$ unemployment economy, corporates are using everything to attract the right candidates. 
D. According to a US Census Bureau, above 44% of Indians who work there hold managerial jobs. 
E. He is among the thousands wooed right out of University campuses by companies. 
F. It could range from an attractive signing bonus to personalized hand holders.

A. What function do they serve?
B. This conceals its body from the eyes of hungry predators.
C. The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as a camouflage, which breaks up the shape of the animal.
D. Despite their vivid appearance in bright sunlight in an open grassland.
E. The zebras are well camouflaged at dawn and dusk.
F. The predators are active during these times when the light is dim.

A. We always think of returns before taking up anything. 
B. Can we imagine what would happen if our mothers thought similarly? 
C. None of us are as selfless as a mother is. 
D. Most transactions of our lives are based on "give and take”. 
E. Probably none of us would have been here.

1.Cubism was a new movement in art that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. Its emergence in France led to new movements in music and literature.
2.George Braque developed Cubic art with Pablo Picasso, and his paintings "Violence and Candlestick” and 'Women with a Guitar' give abstract reality. Objects look broken up, as the artist depicts the subject from multi-dimensional perspective.
3.Cubic art originated in the works of Paul Cezanne who treated the forms of Nature as if they were cones, spheres, and cylinders.

4.The Cubists were experimenters. They disintegrated the subject and depicted a new vision of reality in broken form. The evolution of Czech Cubism has to be understood in this perspective.

1.Mr. Krishna Menon, a popular minister of Nehru's era remained a mystery to the historians and the journalists; he was dubbed as an "intriguer” as his letters were intercepted, and his phone was subjected to checks.
2. Mr. Menon was a frequent visitor to the offices of the Communist Party in London, had connections with the communist leaders like Harry Pollit and Ted Bramley. But he was not a communist and Mr. Nehru knew his psychological flaws; controversial financial dealings; leftist associations; and a succession of love affairs.
3.After Independence, M15, the British Security Agency, discovered that Mr. Menon continued employment of several communists in the Indian High Commission. The M15 found that some workers were passing the secret information to the Communist Party but his pro-communist stance was not confirmed.

4 The MI5 complained to Mr. Nehru. But Nehru's relationship with Mr. Menon was a political compulsion.

(1) It is really sad that the opposition to organized retail has claimed its first victim.
(2) Reliance Retail is likely to handover termination letters to its employees in UP as it prepares to formally exit the state.

(3) At present the company operates 20 stores in NOIDA and Ghaziabad. (4) Reliance is in fact resorting to pressure tactics on the government.

The invention of the cotton gin, being one of the most significant developments of the nineteenth century, had turned cotton cloth into an affordable commodity; it was costly before that.

The Diary of Anne Frank tells the true story of a young girl and her family that were hidden during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands by a gentile Dutch couple, though they were eventually discovered.

Though some education experts claim that the low test scores of children in the city can be raised by hiring more teachers and an increase in the amount of funding for textbooks and other supplies, others insist that doing this cannot guarantee any improvement.

A. They were all shocked at his failure in the competition. 
B. He is too important for tolerating any delay. 
C. There are not many men who are so famous that they are frequently referred to by their short names only. 
D. The small child does whatever his father does.
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Enter the sentence code that is/are grammatically correct in alphabetical order. 

A. The population of Tokyo is greater than that of any other town in the world. 
B. In addition to enhanced reputations through strategic use of philanthropy, companies are sponsoring social initiatives to open new markets. 
C. The police has so far succeeded in recovering only a part of the stolen property. 
D. The intruder stood quietly for a few moments.
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A. Maria unnecessarily picked up a quarrel with Rani and left the party hurried. 
B. Acquisition of certain specific skills can be facilitated by general awareness, education to novel situations. 
C. He confidentially asked the crowd if they thought he was right and the crowd shoutedthat they did. 
D. Why should the candidates be afraid of English Language is not clear.

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Greece has both natural and cultural assets. But it has lacked in infrastructure -- be it inadequate, or unsuitable public transport from the airport, or poor service at a restaurant, or in a shop. Representatives from across the sector of the Greek tourism industry -- hoteliers, restaurant owners, travel agents, tour bus operators, tour guides, ferry companies, and so on -- have long touted the problems they have faced. From its first day in government, the New Democracy indicated its intention to address these problems. And in the first few months it has been in power, it has already gone beyond simply stating its intentions and has actually begun to do something.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and actions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority. It fulfils, therefore, three functions. In the first place, it satisfies man's desire for knowledge; it is here doing the same thing that science attempts to accomplish by its own methods, and here, therefore, enters into rivalry with it. It is to the second function that it performs that religion no doubt owes the greater part of its influence. In so far as religion brushes away man's fear of the dangers and vicissitudes of life, in so far as it assures them of a happy ending, and comforts them in their misfortunes, science cannot compete with it.

1.  Clinical trials have limitations beyond their exorbitant costs and the years or decades it takes them to provide meaningful results.
A.  Randomly subjecting thousands of individuals to second-hand tobacco smoke, pollutants or potentially noxious trans fats presents obvious ethical dilemmas.
B.  Clinical trials invariably enroll subjects who are relatively healthy, who are motivated to volunteer and will show up regularly for treatments and checkups.
C.  They can rarely be used, for instance, to study suspected harmful effects.
D.  And even when these trials are done to study the benefits of a particular intervention, it's rarely clear how the results apply to the public at large or to any specific patient.
6.  Randomized trials are very good for showing that a drug does what the pharmaceutical company says it does but not very good for telling you how big the benefit really is and whatare the harms in typical people.