CAT Question 131
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Q.1.
(A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
(B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
(C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation-being low class and being female-that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
(D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
(E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
(1) EABDC
(2) EBDCA
(3) DAEBC
(4) BECDA
Q.2.
(A) When identity is thus ‘defined by contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
(B) Indian religious literature such as the Bhagavad Gita or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from secular writings seen as ‘western’, elicits much greater interest in the West than do other indian writings, including India’s long history of heterodoxy.
(C) There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
(D) Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
(E) The exception is the Kamasutra in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.
(1) BDACE
(2) DEABC
(3) BDECA
(4) BCEDA
Q.3.
(A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe-up to a point.
(B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
(C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
(D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.
(E) This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.
(1) ADCBE
(2) EBDCA
(3) ABDCE
(4) DCBEA