CAT Question 183
There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.
Q. Their achievement in the field of literature is described as … ; sometimes it is even called …
1. insignificant, influential
2. insignificant, influential
3. unimportant, trivial
4. magnificent, irresponsible
Q. From the time she had put her hair up, every man she had met had groveled before her and she had acquired a mental attitude toward the other sex which was a blend of … and …
1. admiration, tolerance
2. indifference, contempt
3. impertinence, temperance
4. arrogance, fidelity
Q. This simplified … to the decision-making process is a must read for anyone … important real estate, personal, or professional decisions.
1. tract, enacting
2. primer, maximizing
3. guide, facing
4. introduction, under
Q. Physicians may soon have … to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the … nerves that once controlled their muscles.
1. instruments, detrimental
2. ways, damaged
3. reason, involuntary
4. impediments, complex
Q. The Internet is a medium where users have nearly … choices and … constraints about where to go and what to do.
1. choking, shocking
2. unlimited, minimal
3. unbalanced, nonexistent
4. embarrassing, no
Q. The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious, for when punctuation, or lack of it, …. itself, it is usually because it …
1. conceals, recedes
2. obtrudes, offends
3. enjoins, fails
4. effaces, counts
Q. The argument that the need for a looser fiscal policy to … demand outweighs the need to … budget deficits is persuasive.
1. restrain, conceal
2. outstrip, eliminate
3. stimulate, control
4. assess, minimize
Q. The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had … to sit at home and think about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and … the world.
1. me, ignore
2. leisure, explore
3. ability, suffer
4. temerity, understand
November 12th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
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