Free Verbal Practice Test - CAT 

The speaker of this poem is most likely

Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?

Which of the following is most similar to the actions of nineteenth-century ethnologists in their editing of the life stories of Native Americans?

According to the passage, collecting life stories can be a useful methodology because:

According to the passage, most consumer-goods markets share which of the following characteristics?

I. Customers who differ significantly from each other

II. Large number of potential customers

III. Customers who each represent a small percentage of potential sales

The author mentions “trousers” (1st paragraph) most likely in order to:

Which of the following best exemplifies the situation described in the last two sentences of the passage?

Distinct 
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"A”: Our state is considering raising the age at which a person can get a driver's license to eighteen.

This is unfair because the age has been sixteen for many years and sixteen-year-olds today are no less responsible than their parents and grandparents were at sixteen.Many young people today who are fourteen and fifteen years old are preparing to receive their licenses by driving with a learner's permit and a licensed driver, usually one of their parents. It would not be fair to suddenly say they have to wait two more years.

"B”: It is true that people have been allowed to receive a driver's license at sixteen for generations.

However, in recent years, the increase in traffic means drivers face more dangers than ever and must be ready to respond to a variety of situations. The fact that schools can no longer afford to teach drivers' education results in too many young drivers who are not prepared to face the traffic conditions of today.

What is the point at issue between "A” and "B”?

It is mistaken to attribute Novi's failure to the publicity about the supposedly inhuman working conditions in the foreign factories that furnish Novi with many of its parts. Novis failure has more to do with defects in its products than with any boycott on moral grounds. After all, plenty of other companies are supplied by factories with working conditions just as bad as those in Novi's suppliers, and the public does not hesitate to buy their products.

The argument in the passage is based on which of the following assumptions?

Therapists use a variety of techniques to help individuals cope with work related stress. One of these is 'positive' memory', where you are encouraged to think of a happy, life-enhancing memory whenever you feel overwhelmed by stress. A similar approach is 'positive imaging', where you are directed by the therapist to look at the best-case scenario. When we are stressed it is too easy to take the overwhelmingly negative viewpoint - to see everything in terms of black and grey. Positive imaging encourages individuals to think about the good things that can come out of any situation

There are two techniques used by therapists to cope with work related stress.= One is positive memory, when a person who is stressed out is made to think of a happy memory.= Another approach which is different from positive memory, is positive imaging, where a person is made to look at the most positive scenario.

B. Among the various techniques used by therapists to help people combat work related stress are 'positive memory' and 'positive imaging'. In the former technique the stressed out person is made to think of a happy memory. The latter is similar to the former, here the stress victim is made to look at the best case scenario thereby preventing the person from falling a pray to negative thinking.

C. One can suppress one's negative feelings with the help of positive memory and positive imaging where a person is made to imagine a positive situation that is likely to take place in the future.

D. Therapists help individuals to cope with related stress using two different techniques, positive memory and positive imaging.With the help of these techniques the individual is made to suppress his negative thoughts and live in an imaginary would of positive thinking.

In paragraph two, the author states that in their "democracy” students in the  multiplicity stage are directionless. The writer describes multiplicity students as being in a "democracy” because

Which one of the following kinds of thinking is NOT described in the passage?

If students were asked to write essays on the different concepts of tragedy as exemplified by Cordelia and Antigone, and they all responded by showing how each character exemplified a traditional definition of tragedy, we could, according to the passage, hypothesize which one of the following about these students?

The author states that in a "kindlier version” of multiculturalism, minorities discover "that they can play a part in molding the larger culture even as they are molded by it.” If no new ethnic groups were incorporated into the American culture for many centuries to come, which one of the following would be the most probable outcome of this "kindlier version”?

The author speaks about the "politics of identity” that Phillip Green, a political scientist at Smith, notes is all-consuming for many of the students. Considering the subject of the passage, which one of the following best describes what the author means by "the politics of identity”?

"Multiculturalist relativism” is the notion that there is no such thing as impartial or objective knowledge. The author seems to be grounding his criticism of this notion on:

It can be inferred from the passage that a woman with a Ph.D. in psychology who gives a lecture to a group of students is probably MOST concerned with:

The passage portrays women as:

Which one of the following is NOT implied by the passage?

Choose the grammatically correct option of the underlined part given below. 

If the claims of coastal nations to 200-mile territorial seas were accepted on a worldwide basis, more than thirty per cent of the world's ocean area would come under the jurisdiction of one or other national states.

The peaks of a mountain range, acting like rocks in a streambed, produce ripples in the air flowing over them; the resulting flow pattern, with crests and troughs that remain stationary although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, are know

In mental work one advantage of adhesive-bonding over spot-welding is that the contact, and hence the bonding, is effected continuously over a broad surface instead of a series of a regularly spaced points with no bonding in between.

For years, Mt. Desert Island, particularly its major settlement, Bar Harbor, afforded summer homes for the wealthy. Recently though, Bar Harbor has become a burgeoning arts community as well. But, the best part of the island is the unspoiled forest land known as Acadia National Park ._____________________

In such a flat environment, disputes will have to be resolved by new rules of the game. For, the existing legal principles are predicated on the theory of territorial supremacy of the nation states and the laws are essentially territorial in their application.This will give way to the denationalisation of justice. Irrespective of nationality or location, participants in the web-enabled global playing field will opt to be governed by a new set of rules, contractually accepted by them, and not their national laws. ______________

News like that makes people stop and think about pay, reward, and merit. Where to begin? The first rule should always be transparency. The BBC should reveal all fees to ensure there really is a genuine market in talent out there. And that should be a general rule, not just in public bodies but everywhere. People do know more or less what everyone else earns in the public sector, so why not make it compulsory for all?________

1. Jumping a fence of prickly pears, Gumat Hussain, a local chief in the driest district of North Wollo, Ethiopia's most drought-prone province, walks gloomily through his sorghum.
2. This was because of a particularly strong El Niño effect, which this year made swathes of Africa drier than usual, along with a longer-term drying of Ethiopia's climate, especially in the north and east.
3. In many lowland parts of North Wollo, a day's drive north of Addis Ababa, the capital, the annual midsummer rains lasted for under a week.
4. "The crops have not produced grain. They are useless even for the animals,” he sighs. "My oxen and goats will soon die. Our people will wait only for the government to respond.”
5. Now it is harvest time and the tall, green crops belie their fruitlessness.
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1. However, just how much they actually required would not be known until the European Central Bank (ECB conducts a probe into their books together with a stress test examining how they would be affected if the economy turned even sourer than expected in 2015-17.
2. Greek banks had been undermined for over half a year as deposits drained out of them, on worries about a possible exit from the euro once Syriza, a radical left party, won the election held in January 2015.
3. Even so, the notion that they would need as much as €25 billion to offset the damage and put them on a sound footing appeared unduly pessimistic.
4. They had been further hurt by the harm done to the economy and thus to their loans arising from Syriza's ill-judged attempt to outbluff its official creditors.
5. When the third Greek bail-out was outlined in principle after an extraordinarily fraught summit of euro-zone leaders, between €10 billion and €25 billion out of the total sum of up to €86 billion of help was set aside for bank recapitalisation.
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1.These stricter standards are needed to give a better account of who did what and when in a world where market crashes can happen in a flash.

2.The scientists therefore met with regulators, banks and trade bodies from all over Europe, to discuss how to implement the directive.

3.The purpose of the high-tech clock is to tell banks and trading services exactly what the time is, so that they can comply with a new set of accounting rules, called the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, which will come into force in 2017.

4.Such atomic clocks were first proposed to be used in the New York stock exchange before the advent of the Second World War.

5.   Among many other things, this directive drastically tightens rules on the time-stamping of transactions.___

1. They quickly clarified that they have no intention of closing the border.
2. As her poll numbers fall, calls are growing for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to do exactly that.
3. But they also have said they will not be able to leave it open if Germanydecides it can no longer handle an influx that brought more than a half-million asylum seekers to the country during the first nine months of the year.
4. The Austrian government has decided to call a Europe wide convention to decide on the number of refugees each country admit. 
5. Austrian officials said last week that they are planning barriers to better regulate the movement of migrants coming across from Slovenia.
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1. A large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999, according to a review of statistics that shows a sharp reversal in decades of progress toward longer lives.
2. An increase in the mortality rate for any large demographic group in an advanced nation has been virtually unheard of in recent decades, with the exception of Russian men after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
3. The rising death rate was accompanied by an increase in the rate of illness, the authors wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
4. The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and suicide, the researchers concluded. Before then, death rates for that group dropped steadily, and at a faster pace.
5. Drug addiction experts have warned that increased addiction to drugs by such a large segment of the population can pose a huge social burden on the next generation of Americans.
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Enter the correct option sequence for the words given in the paragraph below. 

Scraps of tantalizing(A)/gnawing(B) but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula last weekend, killing all 224 aboard. Investigators have not yet officially said whether the plane disintegrated in midair over the Sinai, scattering debris(A)/trash(B) over seven square miles of desert, due to a technical malfunction, act of terror, or another reason. A public quarrel erupted Monday after Metrojet, the small Russian airline vying(A)/scrambling(B) to protect its reputation after the devastating crash, said that external factors were the cause of the plane's disintegration rather than technical issues or pilot error.

The correct sequence is___ .

Enter the correct option sequence 
Parmenides was a native of Elea, south of Italy, and flourished in the first half of the fifth century B.C. According to Plato, Socrates in his youth had an interview with Parmenides, then an old man, and learnt much from him. Whether or not this interview is historical, we may at least infer, what is otherwise evident, that Plato himself was influenced by the doctrines of Parmenides. The south Italian and Sicilian philosophers were more inclined to mysticism and religion than those of Ionia, who were on the whole scientific and skeptical(A)/dissenting(B) in their tendencies. But mathematics, under the influence of Pythagoras, flourished more in Magna Graecia than in Ionia; mathematics at that time, however, was fettered(A)/entangled(B) with mysticism. Parmenides was influenced by Pythagoras, but the extent of this influence is disputable(A)/conjectural(B). What makes Parmenides historically important is that he invented a form of metaphysical argument that, in one form or another, is to be found in most subsequent metaphysicians down to and including Hegel. He is often said to have invented logic, but what he really invented was metaphysics based on logic.

The correct sequence is___