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CAT 2023 · Slot 1

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Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following statements is not true about migration in the Indian Ocean world?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following claims contribute to the “remapping” discussed by the passage, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
On the basis of the nature of the relationship between the items in each pair below, choose the odd pair out:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following statements, if true, would weaken the passage’s claim about the relationship between mainstream English-language fiction and Indian Ocean novels EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author mentions Tanzania’s Hadza community to illustrate:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage mentions Galbraith’s “The Affluent Society” to:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage criticises Sahlins’s essay for its:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
We can infer that Sahlins's main goal in writing his essay was to:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following has NOT contributed to the growing wolf population in Lozère?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author presents a possible economic solution to an existing issue facing Lozère that takes into account the divergent and competing interests of:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following statements, if true, would weaken the author’s claims?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The inhabitants of Lozère have to grapple with all of the following problems, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following are advanced by the author as reasons why non-geographers disregard geographic influences on human phenomena EXCEPT their:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author criticises scholars who are not geographers for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The examples of the Inuit and Aboriginal Australians are offered in the passage to show:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: The discovery helps to explain archeological simi…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: This philosophical cut at one’s core beliefs, val…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four number…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four number…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Manipulating information was a feature of history long before modern journalism establishe…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Colonialism is not a modern phenomenon. World history is full of examples of one society g…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
If the author of the passage were to write a book on the Battle of Hastings along the lines of his/her own reasoning, the focus of the historical account would be on:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to this passage, which one of the following statements best describes the significance of archaeology for historians?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following, if true, can weaken the passage’s claim that facts do not speak for themselves, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following describe the “common-sense view” of history, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Based only on information provided in the passage, which one of the following hypothetical Netflix shows would be most successful with audiences across the EU?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author sees the rise of Netflix in Europe as:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Based on information provided in the passage, all of the following are true, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following research findings would weaken the author’s conclusion in the final paragraph?
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage is likely to disagree with all of the following statements, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following statements are evidence of the decline of liberalism today, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage refers to “the Davos elite” to illustrate his views on:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage faults Deneen’s conclusions for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Based on the passage, we can infer that the opposite of fast fashion, ‘slow fashion’, would most likely refer to clothes that:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the author, companies like ThredUP have not caught on in the UK for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The act of “thrifting”, as described in the passage, can be considered ironic because it:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The central idea of the passage would be undermined if:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: And probably much earlier, moving the documentati…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Dualism was long held as the defining feature of…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four number…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four number…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Heatwaves are becoming longer, frequent and intense due to climate change. The impacts of…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if onl…
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 3 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the passage, recent studies on romanticism avoid “a single definition, a specific time, or a specific place” because they:
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MBA CAT 2023 Slot 3 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the romantics, aesthetics:
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