Parajumbles (w/o options) || Verbal Ability || CAT 2021 || 14 April (App update required to attempt this test)

1) In the era of smart world, however, ‘Universal Basic Income’ is an ineffective instrument which cannot address the potential breakdown of the social contract when large swathes of the population would effectively be unemployed.

2) In the era of industrial revolution, the abolition of child labour, poor laws and the growth of trade unions helped families cope with the pressures of mechanised work.

3) Growing inequality could be matched by a creeping authoritarianism that is bolstered by technology that is increasingly able to peer into the deepest vestiges of our lives.

4) New institutions emerge which recognise ways in which workers could contribute to and benefit by economic growth when, rather than if, their jobs are automated.

1) Self-management is thus defined as the ‘individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic condition’.

2) Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care for as long as possible.

3) Having control means, among other things, that patients themselves perform self-management activities.

4) Supporting people in decisions and actions that promote self-management is called self-management support requiring a cooperative relationship between the patient, the family, and the professionals.

1) We are made of the same substance as every other being and we will eventually merge with it. The idea, then, is not save nature, but to align with it and understand how we are one.

2) We are connected not just in an abstract way but in a very real manner. What we inhale comes from plants and what we exhale goes to them, creating incredible cycles of life. Even the hemoglobin that we thrive on actually came from stars that exploded millennia ago.

3) The idea of saving nature presumes that we are outside of it. Or, that we actually have some control over it. Can anyone prevent the sun from rising?

4) Hindu philosophy and nature are similar in their essence -- the vision of oneness, ideas of interconnectedness and the intelligent laws that govern the universe.

5) Or, stop the cells in our bodies from multiplying every second? We are tiny, beautiful specks in the vast and incredible scheme of coexistence that we call nature.

1) The Devil’s solution was to have intermediaries do his evil bidding by using witches as his indirect link to people they would corrupt.

2) One answer: God allows it as a test of men’s souls. Yield to its temptations, go to Hell; resist its temptations, and be invited into Heaven.

3) It was required to be read by the Inquisition judges. It begins with a conundrum to be solved: How can evil continue to exist in a world governed by an all good, all-powerful God?

4) However, God restricted the Devil’s direct influence over people because of his earlier corruption of Adam and Eve.

5) One of the first documented sources of the widespread use of the dispositional view to understand evil and rid the world of its pernicious influence is found in a text that became the bible of the Inquisition, the Malleus Maleficarum, or “The Witches’ Hammer.”

1) The feminist stage of women's writing involves an emphasis on the rights and values of minority as well as a valorization of their difference.

2) Just stop for a minute and take another look at the distinction between the terms "female" and "feminine".

3) Elaine Showalter, however offers a completely different usage of these terms in the area of women's writing, in the process also providing a perspective on feminism.

4) You will remember that the two words were respectively used to refer to a set of biological characteristics, and a set of culturally defined ones.

5) She suggests in "A literature of Their Own" that the feminine stage of women's writing involves a period when the prevalent, dominant standards and tradition are imitated and internalized.

1) The concept of disruption is a way for companies, the press or simply individuals to think about questions of continuity and discontinuity –

2) Among the most influential of these phrases is undoubtedly “disruption”.

3) There are certain phrases that are central to the sway the tech industry holds over our collective imagination:

4) They do not simply reflect our experience, they frame how we experience it in the first place.

5) What lasts and what doesn’t, what is genuinely new and what is just the next version of something older. There is a lot at stake in how we think about these issues.

1) The ground felt deceptively soft under his feet and made him simultaneously uncertain and unwary. “In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful …”

2) So he had risen in the bitter cold of four-fifteen, washed himself in the prescribed fashion, dressed and put on his father’s astrakhan cap;

3) The exordium, spoken with hands joined before him like a book, comforted a part of him, made another, larger part feel uneasy.

4) After which he had carried the rolled cheroot of the prayer-mat into the small lakeside garden in front of their old dark house and unrolled it over the waiting tussock.

5) On the morning when the valley, gloved in a prayer-mat, punched him on the nose, he had been trying, absurdly, to pretend that nothing had changed.

Direction: The four sentences (labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order of sentences and key in the sequence of sentence numbers through virtual key Pad on screen.

1.Old words keep acquiring new meanings and there is a constant shift.

2.This is the cause of what may be called the natural change.

3.The reason lies perhaps in the fact that so many persons ,millions ,in fact speak a language under varying conditions and in different situations.

4.An interesting question is: why do languages break up and fragment into different dialects ,sub dialects, varieties and other languages?

5.Languages also start changing when they come in contact with each other.

1) The US has undermined the WTO's ability to carry out one of its main functions - settling trade disputes between member countries

2) Two of the biggest commercial powers on the planet - China and the US - are embroiled in bitter trade conflict.

3) The US has some substantial concerns about the WTO; Many of them pre-date President Trump, but his administration has taken a less collaborative approach to pursuing them.

4) But the WTO is an organisation under stress.

1) Thick smoke is visible on satellite images and distinguishable from every-day clouds across vast areas of the Arctic.

2) The satellite images on the left below show the fires as red dots. The globe on the right shows the concentration of black carbon particles - or soot - released by the fires.

3) The wildfires are not just having an impact on the ground; They release harmful pollutants and toxic gases into the atmosphere.

4) Nasa has traced the megatons of harmful particles in that smoke - and where they have gone.