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Inferential Reasoning

Q.No: 1
Test Name : CAT Paper 2008

The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.

A
Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
B
Other patients don't like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
C
But Perowne himself is not concerned.
D
But others will take their place, he thought.
E
These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
Solution:
In the paragraph the author suggests why the doctor loses some of his patients. Option 5 can be easily eliminated as the pronoun "these" has no antecedent in the para. Option 3 & 4 are farfetched as they are to do with the doctor's attitude towards the problem, which the para does not indicate in any way. Option 1 can also be done away with as it suggests those patients who fail to speak up and not about those who leave his treatment, as indicated in the para. Option 2 fits in perfectly as it speaks of those who have no other alternative but to seek his treatment.
Q.No: 2
Test Name : CAT Paper 2008

Directions for Questions 67 to 70: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of energy-intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source of protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India - in that order.

A
Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
B
OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these two countries.
C
Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and India.
D
Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
E
Today’s climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.
Solution:
Options 1 and 3 are very generalized statements. Option 2 is a repetition of the idea presented in the beginning of the paragraph. The para talks about how developed countries indulge in trade protectionism as a move against China and India’s economic rise , under the guise of climate concern. Option 4 and 5 talk about the same thing but 4 goes along with the subtle suggestive tone of the para while 5 is more curt in its accusation of ‘perpetrators of inequity’.
Q.No: 3
Test Name : CAT Paper 2008

The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Mattancherry is Indian Jewry's most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.

A
Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
B
India's Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers and each other.
C
Jews in India were always tolerant.
D
Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.
E
The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.
Solution:
The para is a description of the Jewry settlement,. (4) can be eliminated as it brings in a hint of skepticism. (3) is a mere repetition of an idea already discussed in the para (that of jews being tolerant). (5) can also be eliminated as it is brings an alien concept - that of Mattancherry's popularity with the tourists . Between (1) and (2), we will eliminate (1) as it has a more conclusive tone, which is not in sync with the descriptive nature of the paragraph.
Q.No: 4
Test Name : CAT Paper 2008

The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Given the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the question of what is ‘Western’ and what is ‘Eastern’ (or ‘Indian’) is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more dialectical terms. The diagnosis of a thought as ‘purely Western’ or ‘purely Indian’ can be very illusory.

A
Thoughts are not the kind of things that can be easily categorized.
B
Though 'occidentalism' and 'orientalism' as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.
C
'East is East and West is West' has been a discredited notion for a long time now.
D
Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable.
E
The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which 'purity' happens easily.
Solution:
Option 1 can be easily eliminated as it is a mere repetition of the ideas presented in the para. Option 2 is a little farfetched as it should come one or two more sentences later in the para . Option 3 does not match with the idea presented in the passage. Option 4 does not match with the tone of the paragraph. Option 5 completes the idea as the emphasis in the last line of the para is that the idea of ‘pure Western and pure Indian thoughts’ is deceptive.



Solution:
In the paragraph the author suggests why the doctor loses some of his patients. Option 5 can be easily eliminated as the pronoun "these" has no antecedent in the para. Option 3 & 4 are farfetched as they are to do with the doctor's attitude towards the problem, which the para does not indicate in any way. Option 1 can also be done away with as it suggests those patients who fail to speak up and not about those who leave his treatment, as indicated in the para. Option 2 fits in perfectly as it speaks of those who have no other alternative but to seek his treatment.


Solution:
Options 1 and 3 are very generalized statements. Option 2 is a repetition of the idea presented in the beginning of the paragraph. The para talks about how developed countries indulge in trade protectionism as a move against China and India’s economic rise , under the guise of climate concern. Option 4 and 5 talk about the same thing but 4 goes along with the subtle suggestive tone of the para while 5 is more curt in its accusation of ‘perpetrators of inequity’.


Solution:
The para is a description of the Jewry settlement,. (4) can be eliminated as it brings in a hint of skepticism. (3) is a mere repetition of an idea already discussed in the para (that of jews being tolerant). (5) can also be eliminated as it is brings an alien concept - that of Mattancherry's popularity with the tourists . Between (1) and (2), we will eliminate (1) as it has a more conclusive tone, which is not in sync with the descriptive nature of the paragraph.


Solution:
Option 1 can be easily eliminated as it is a mere repetition of the ideas presented in the para. Option 2 is a little farfetched as it should come one or two more sentences later in the para . Option 3 does not match with the idea presented in the passage. Option 4 does not match with the tone of the paragraph. Option 5 completes the idea as the emphasis in the last line of the para is that the idea of ‘pure Western and pure Indian thoughts’ is deceptive.





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