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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following statements best expresses the overall argument of this passage?
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In the first paragraph, Bradshaw uses the term "violence" to describe the recent change in the human-elephant relationship because, according to him
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage makes all of the following claims EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following measures is Bradshaw most likely to support to address the problem of elephant aggression?
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In paragraph 4, the phrase, "The fabric of elephant society . . . ha[s] effectively been frayed by . . ." is:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In the first paragraph, the author laments the fact that:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author lists all of the following as outcomes of the Second World War EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The phrase "mood music" is used in the second paragraph to indicate that the Second World War is viewed as:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author suggests that a major reason why India has not so far acknowledged its role in the Second World War is that it:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author claims that omitting mention of Indians who served in the Second World War from the new National War Memorial is:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following interventions would the author most strongly support:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author lists all of the following as negative effects of the use of plastics EXCEPT the:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In the first paragraph, the author uses "lie" to refer to the:
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In the second paragraph, the phrase "what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper" means:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
It can be inferred that the author considers the Keep America Beautiful organisation:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the author, wearable technologies and social media are contributing most to:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author's view would be undermined by which of the following research findings?
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In the author's opinion, the shift in thinking in the 1970s:
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From the passage we can infer that the author would like economists to:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the author, Dubai:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage uses the metaphor of a dog walker to argue that evolutionary adaptation is most comprehensively understood as being determined by:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following options best describes the author's argument?
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The Emory University experiment with mice points to the inheritance of:
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which of the following, if found to be true, would negate the main message of the passage?
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position. Artificial embryo twinning is a relatively low-tech way to make clones. As the name suggests, this techni…
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position. Production and legitimation of scientific knowledge can be approached from a number of perspectives. To s…
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position. The conceptualization of landscape as a geometric object first occurred in Europe and is historically rel…
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answe…
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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answe…
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answe…
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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answe…
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MBA CAT 2018 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. Displacement in Bengal is thus not very significant in v…
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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our go…
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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. 1. Translators are like bumblebees. 2. Though long since sc…
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