Para-Summary || Verbal Ability || CAT 2021 || 28 April for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.

India’s IT industry has warned about the adverse impact that curbs on outsourcing will have on the U.S. economy, which lacks high-skilled workers. The critical thing for this industry is high-skilled workers and the fact of the matter is that those high-skilled workers are not available in the U.S. If the agenda of creation of jobs needs to be pursued, we feel that current windows will need to be kept open to get the requisite skilled workers. The Indian IT industry provided services to American companies, which helped them to be competitive in the global market. In the U.S., the job creation engine is only corporate America. There is no other way that U.S. economy can generate jobs. And therefore, to keep corporate America fighting fit, ensure that it remains globally competitive, ensure continuous increase in productivity, these services are needed. If you need these services, you need skilled people.

Question 2

Directions: Four alternative summaries are given for the following text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

The Shveta-chattra, the “White Umbrella,” was a symbol of sovereign political authority placed over the monarch's head at the time of the coronation. The ruler so inaugurated was regarded not as a temporal autocrat but as the instrument of protective and sheltering firmament of supreme law. The white umbrella symbol is of great antiquity and its varied use illustrates the ultimate common basis of non- theocratic nature of states in the Indian tradition. As such, the umbrella is found, although not necessarily a white one, over the head of Lord Ram, the Mohammedan sultans and Chatrapati Shivaji.

Question 3

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.

India, projected to be the most populous country over the next decade, will be the world's largest milk producer by 2026 and will account for the biggest increase in wheat production globally, according to a report by the UN and OECD. The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 said the world's population will increase from 7.3 to 8.2 billion over the course of the next decade with India and Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for 56 per cent of total population growth. India's population will grow from 1.3 billion to 1.5 billion, an increase of almost 150 million. India will overtake China and is projected to be the most populous country in the world by 2026. The report said that given their strong population growth, India and Sub-Saharan Africa will also drive a large share of global demand. It further said that over the first quarter of the 21st century, milk production in India will be nearly tripled.

1. China will overtake India in milk production by 2026.
2. India will not be contributing to population increase.
3. Milk production will increase only due to increase in India's population.

Question 4

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.

In a way, globalization has contributed towards increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Rich and wealthy people are able to exercise more control over the national resources through the application of science and technology. Globalization increases the transfer of non-skilled and skilled jobs from developing nations to well developed countries as huge corporations seek for cheap labor. This economic trend can also increase the likelihood of economic disrupt in a single nations, which could affect all nations. Local businesses, hand-loom industry, cottage and small-scale industry suffer a lot due to globalization. The highly specialized and efficient multi-national companies take advantages of large-scale production and put products at throwaway prices. The local industries could not compete with their global counterpart. The global economy is now inter-connected. The economic downfall of one major economic nation adversely affects the entire global community.

Question 5

Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us, leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces.

Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

Which of the following is certainly not implied in the above verse?

Question 6

Read the following passage carefully and then answer the question that follows it:
Who does not deplore the fecklessness and venality of India’s politicians? The country is teeming with problems, but a decade under a coalition led by the ruling party has left it rudderless. Growth has fallen by half, to about 5% – too low to provide work for the millions of young Indians. Reforms go undone, roads and electricity remain unavailable, children are left uneducated. Meanwhile politicians and officials are reckoned to have taken bribes worth between $4 billion and $12 billion during the ruling party’s tenure. The business of politics, Indians conclude, is corruption.
No wonder that the overwhelming favourite to become India’s next prime minister is Narendra Modi. He could not be more different from Rahul Gandhi, his rival. The great-grandson of India’s first premier, Mr. Gandhi would ascend to office as if by divine right. Mr. Modi is a former tea-seller propelled to the top by sheer ability. Mr. Gandhi’s coalition is tainted by corruption. By comparison Mr. Modi is clean. Despite that, I cannot bring myself to back Mr. Modi for India’s highest office.
Which of the following options would the author most likely agree with?

Question 7

Go through the caselets given below and answer the questions that follow:
Burdon's Syndrome is a debilitating disease that affects one in every two thousand people in the United States and has an almost 100% rate of fatality. However, there might be hope. A certain new medical doping method has been established which can help detect this disease up to seven months earlier than what is now the norm. This needs to be widely publicised as this test will surely help save several lives in the future.

Which of the following, if true, helps weaken the author's argument that this test will help save several lives in the future?

Question 8

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

Nowhere is such a perceived lack greater, perhaps, than in the realm of human rights. Post-colonial states are routinely critiqued by Western governments and human rights NGOs for their failure to uphold what are declared to be universal values. Such critiques are often spurred by, and help to reinforce, underlying assumptions about the incivility of racial “others”. This is not to say that such critiques should not be made. Nor that human rights abuses or attempts to deny them should not be challenged and fought vociferously against. But there is something disconcerting about the Western move to denounce the human rights records of post-colonial states. After all, similar assertions about the purported lack of civility of non-Western peoples were central to the justifications made by European colonial states for their conquest and colonisation of vast swathes of the planet.

Question 9

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

In essence, the Syrian conflict has become more than just a battle between those for or against Mr. Assad. A key factor has been the intervention of regional and world powers, including Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Their military, financial and political support for the government and opposition has contributed directly to the intensification and continuation of the fighting, and turned Syria into a proxy battleground. Russia, for whom President Assad's survival is critical to maintaining its interests in Syria, launched an air campaign in September 2015 with the aim of "stabilising" the government after a series of defeats. Moscow stressed that it would target only "terrorists", but activists said its strikes mainly hit Western-backed rebel groups.

Question 10

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

The moment that the Indian government was waiting for a decade has finally arrived. The single biggest indirect tax regime has kicked into force, dismantling all the inter-state barriers with respect to trade. The GST rollout, with a single stroke, has converted India into a unified market of 1.3 billion citizens. Fundamentally, the $2.4-trillion economy is attempting to transform itself by doing away with the internal tariff barriers and subsuming central, state and local taxes into a unified GST. The rollout has renewed the hope of India’s fiscal reform program regaining momentum and widening the economy. Then again, there are fears of disruption, embedded in what’s perceived as a rushed transition which may not assist the interests of the country.