The following questions are from Text Completion for Verbal Ability for CAT. Text Completion questions often feature in the CAT. A couple of sentences with blanks are given, along with word options for each blank. You need to choose the right combination of words that make sense in the given context. If you would like to take these questions as a Quiz, head on here to take these questions in a test format, absolutely free.
______________ Muhmud of Ghazni made 17 raids of India, he did not make any_____________effort to capture India. ___________, he may be seen as the founder of Turkish rule in India to the extent that his expeditions opened India to conquest from the north-west.
Systemic relates to a system whereas systematic means orderly or methodical. In this sentence, systemic does not make sense. “To the extent that” tells us that the correct choice of word here is however or nevertheless, not therefore or consequently. Hence B is the correct answer.
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The following questions are from Text Completion for Verbal Ability for CAT. Text Completion questions often feature in the CAT. A couple of sentences with blanks are given, along with word options for each blank. You need to choose the right combination of words that make sense in the given context. If you would like to take these questions as a Quiz, head on here to take these questions in a test format, absolutely free.
Citing an improvement in exports and government spending, the nation’s central bank has said that an ________economic recovery is under way. However, many economists remain skeptical as to whether the economy is picking up after more than a year of ________ economic growth.
Options that make sense are incipient and slow. But as the article preceding the blank is “an”, we can’t use “slow”. In blank 2, since the “economists are sceptical” infers negative sense, it cannot take “steady”.
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The following questions are from Text Completion for Verbal Ability for CAT. Text Completion questions often feature in the CAT. A couple of sentences with blanks are given, along with word options for each blank. You need to choose the right combination of words that make sense in the given context. If you would like to take these questions as a Quiz, head on here to take these questions in a test format, absolutely free.
In measuring electrical activity in different parts of the brain, researchers found that people who describe themselves as generally happy have more activity in the left prefrontal lobe of their brains than do other people. Therefore, a medication for ____________ the left prefrontal lobe of the brain would be an ____________ treatment for clinical depression.
If people are happy when there is more activity in a lobe, why should we suppress that lobe? ‘Improving’ doesn’t make much sense here either. A medication to stimulate that lobe makes sense, not ‘challenge’ the lobe.
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The following questions are from Text Completion for Verbal Ability for CAT. Text Completion questions often feature in the CAT. A couple of sentences with blanks are given, along with word options for each blank. You need to choose the right combination of words that make sense in the given context. If you would like to take these questions as a Quiz, head on here to take these questions in a test format, absolutely free.
Unfettered free speech is good for humanity. Defending free speech means defending speech you __________________; otherwise it’s just _________________, not principle.
The word unfettered means unrestricted. First sentence talks about that free speech is good for humanity. Hence it follows that defending free speech is defending speech that you don’t like.
Partisanship means to be biased hence it is the correct choice here- because if you do not defend speech that you don’t like, it is just biased support for speech you like, not principle.
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The following questions are from Text Completion for Verbal Ability for CAT. Text Completion questions often feature in the CAT. A couple of sentences with blanks are given, along with word options for each blank. You need to choose the right combination of words that make sense in the given context. If you would like to take these questions as a Quiz, head on here to take these questions in a test format, absolutely free.
The Western culture’s relationship with luxury is ____________ from that in emerging markets.___________ great shows of ostentatious wealth are considered crass in the UK, they are de rigueur in Russia.
The word “crass” means vulgar and “de rigueur” means required by etiquette. According to the second sentence ostentatious wealth is considered crass or vulgar in the UK but de rigueur or required by etiquette Russia. Hence “not different” or “marginally different” can be eliminated. “Whereas or whilst” are the obvious choices here. We can rule out whilst as “marginally different” has been eliminated earlier.
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