Verbal Ability Quiz 4 for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

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.
(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
(2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers and each other.
(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.
(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.
(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.

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. Type the correct option number in the given space below.

Question 2

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

You seemed at first to take no notice of your school-fellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against others because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you, and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint.

Question 3

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) He left justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B) At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C) Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D) Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E) Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the Whitehouse does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.

Question 4

The ancient Egyptians believed_________ so that when these objects were magically reanimated through the correct rituals, they would be able to function effectively.

Question 5

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

In a recent report, the gross enrolment ratios at the primary level, that is, the number of children enrolled in classes one of five as a proportion of all children aged 6 to 10, were shown to be very high for most states; in many cases they were way above 100 percent! These figures are not worth anything, since they are based on the official enrolment data compiled from school records. They might as well stand for 'gross exaggeration ratios'.

Question 6

Choose the most logical order of these four sentences for among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences 1 to 6.
(1) Commercially reared chicken can be unusually aggressive, and are often kept in darkened sheds to prevent them pecking at each other.
(A) The birds spent far more of their time-up to a third - pecking at the inanimate objects in the pens, in contrast to birds in other pens which spend a lot of time attacking others.
(B) In low light conditions, they behave less belligerently, but are more prone to ophthalmic disorders and respiratory problem.
(C) In an experiment, aggressive head-pecking was all but eliminated among birds in the enriched environment
(D) Altering the birds’ environment, by adding bales of wood-shavings to their pens, can work wonders.
(6) Bales could diminish aggressiveness and reduce injuries; they might even improve productivity, since a happy chicken is a productive chicken.

Question 7

Passage – III
Last November, I organized a seminar about terrorism in aviation. In order to drive home the potential hazards to the students, we visited a large eastern U.S airport with the intention of acting like a terrorist group looking for targets of opportunity. What we discovered was, at times fascinating and at other frightening.
In general US airports have two areas where the visitors have access : a a public area with little active security measures and a more secure area in the airport waiting and boarding areas. The less secure areas usually contain ticket counters, baggage claim, gift shops, restaurants and other airport services. Getting into the main areas involves going through a screening process that includes X-ray inspection of carry on items and walking through metal detectors. Other security measures include limiting curbside parking at the terminal, securing unattended luggage and requiring that all passengers be identified by the airlines by use of picture identification. In the academic exercise, the group made several notable security observations.
Most of the trash bins in the terminal areas were set within larger concrete containers. An explosive set within one of these containers would likely be directed upward. However, in several cases there were metal and fiberglass containers, sometimes adjacent to the concrete ones; also located around the terminal.
During visit, there were numerous announcements about how untended baggage would be collected by the airport authority. At one point, our party observed an unattended umbrella propped against a wall near one of the screening areas. The umbrella was plain in view and in close proximity to constant foot traffic. It was over 45 minutes before an airport staff member removed the umbrella. Most areas of the terminal were designed such that it was difficult to leave a bag unattended in heavily travelled areas of the terminal without it being seen. Our group specifically observed custodial staff going about their duties to see they were security conscious.
In general, we were quite impressed with the level of security. The most woorisome aspects of what we saw were that the effectiveness of active and passive security measures varied greatly, and that a group of people unschooled in the ways of terrorism could very quickly discover numerous opportunities for committing mayhem without being detected.

Which statement is correct?

Question 8

Which statement/s is/are incorrect?
I. US airports have two insecure areas where the visitors have access.
II. The effectiveness of active and passiv security measures varied greatly.
III. The US airport authorities were quick in collecting the unattended baggage.

Question 9

Given below are sentences, each using the question word different ways. Identify the sentence which uses the question word in a grammatically incorrect manner.
Gut

Question 10

Given below are sentences, each using the question word different ways. Identify the sentence which uses the question word in a grammatically incorrect manner.
Happen