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For the following questions answer them individually

Question 91

Fill in the blanks: Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom —these areas are few of the _ for the _ of proper emotional reactions.

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Option A is incorrect as in the usage of "these areas", things cannot be used. Similarly option C is incorrect. Option B is incorrect because"basis of proper emotional reaction" is an incorrect usage.

Question 92

Fill in the blanks: When children become more experienced with words as visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making ___ sounds.

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Audible means which can be heard. Audible sounds means the sounds which can be heard..

Question 93

Fill in the blanks: Learning is more efficient when it is _. It is less efficient when it is _.

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The two set of words must be opposite to each other. Option A and D are correct in this case. But option A is contextually incorrec as learning cannot be fun if its is fast. The correct answer is D.

Question 94

Fill in the blanks: To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers _ and of a large class of subjects _.

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Option D is incorrect as it contradicts the statements as "rulers do not get ruled." Option A is contextually incorrect as it does not make any sense. Option B is incorrect as powerfully corrupt is grammatically incorrect. Option C is the best match.

Question 95

Fill in the blanks: Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more _ than _.

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Option C is incorrect as impracticality and knowledge cannot be related because they are totally different.

Option B is incorrect as improvisation means to perform spontaneously and improving means to get better which are not related.

Option D is contextually incorrect. Option A is correct as it talks about imitation and invention which are related terms.

Question 96

Fill in the blanks: As a step towards protesting against the spiralling prices, the farmers have decided to stage a picket in an effort to ___.

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Farmers face problems due to the spiralling prices. So they protest in order to make their pleas head. "Virility" means manliness which has no context in this passage. The protest need not curb the prices. It will make their pleas heard. "Topple the government" is an extreme form which does not demand merit in this passage. Option B is the correct answer.

Question 97

Fill in the blanks: Science is a sort of news agency comparable ___ to other news agencies.

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Option A is incorrect as principally is an incorrect usage. Principal means a chief which does not go in this context. Hencee C is incorrect. Among B and D, B is more suitable as in principle means in primary rule which goes with the tone of the passage.

Question 98

Fill in the blanks:
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing a large number of people to believe that these leaders are ___ by altruistic desires.

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Options B and C are incorrect as desires cannot convince or categorise people. Between options A and D, "actuated" which means motivated is a better fit as "led" is generally used for other people and not inanimate objects like "desires".

Question 99

Fill in the blanks: Everyone will admit that swindling one's fellow beings is a necessary practice; upon it is based the really sound commercial success formula — ___.

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Swindle means to use deception to deprive someone's possession. It means that you have an unequal exchange where you didn't give much of your possession and you robbed the other person of his/her possession. Option C summarises it correctly.

Question 100

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of six sentences.

1. Buddhism is a way to salvation.

A. But Buddhism is more severely analytical.

B. In the Christian tradition there is also a concern for the fate of human society conceived as a whole, rather than merely as a sum or network of individuals.

C. Salvation is a property, or achievement of individuals.

D. Not only does it dissolve society into individuals, the individual in turn is dissolved into component parts and instants, a stream of events.

6. In modern terminology, Buddhist doctrine is reductionist.

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Sentence C is the starting sentence as it talks about the as salvation. Sentence B is the next sentence as it mentions the traditions of christanity. A and D differentiates the Buddhism from Christanity. The correct order is CBAD.

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CAT 1998 Question Paper

Fill in the blanks: Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom —these areas are few of the _ for the _ of proper emotional reactions.

Fill in the blanks: When children become more experienced with words as visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making ___ sounds.

Fill in the blanks: Learning is more efficient when it is _. It is less efficient when it is _.

Fill in the blanks: To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers _ and of a large class of subjects _.

Fill in the blanks: Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more _ than _.

Fill in the blanks: As a step towards protesting against the spiralling prices, the farmers have decided to stage a picket in an effort to ___.

Fill in the blanks: Science is a sort of news agency comparable ___ to other news agencies.

Fill in the blanks:
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing a large number of people to believe that these leaders are ___ by altruistic desires.

Fill in the blanks: Everyone will admit that swindling one's fellow beings is a necessary practice; upon it is based the really sound commercial success formula — ___.

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CAT 1998 Question Paper

Fill in the blanks: Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom —these areas are few of the ___ for the ___ of proper emotional reactions.

Fill in the blanks: When children become more experienced with words as visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making ___ sounds.

Fill in the blanks: Learning is more efficient when it is ___. It is less efficient when it is ___.

Fill in the blanks: To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers ___ and of a large class of subjects ___.

Fill in the blanks: Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more ___ than ___.

Fill in the blanks: As a step towards protesting against the spiralling prices, the farmers have decided to stage a picket in an effort to ___.

Fill in the blanks: Science is a sort of news agency comparable ___ to other news agencies.

Fill in the blanks: Most political leaders acquire their position by causing a large number of people to believe that these leaders are ___ by altruistic desires.

Fill in the blanks: Everyone will admit that swindling one's fellow beings is a necessary practice; upon it is based the really sound commercial success formula — ___.

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Fill in the blanks: Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom —these areas are few of the _ for the _ of proper emotional reactions.

Fill in the blanks: Learning is more efficient when it is _. It is less efficient when it is _.

Fill in the blanks: To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers _ and of a large class of subjects _.

Fill in the blanks: Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more _ than _.

Fill in the blanks:
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing a large number of people to believe that these leaders are ___ by altruistic desires.