List of top Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions asked in CAT

A. With that, I swallowed the shampoo, and obtained most realistic results almost on the spot.
B. The man shuffled away into the back regions to make up a prescription, and after a moment I got through on the shop-telephone to the Consulate, intimating my location.
C. Then, while the pharmacist was wrapping up a six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and inquired whether he could give me something for acute gastric cramp.
D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack, and entering an old-fashioned pharmacy, I asked for a popular shampoo mixture, consisting of olive oil and flaked soap.

Bacon believes that medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.

His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, moving house on three occasions, and severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant stride forward in our country.
Many of these environmentalists proclaim tosave nothing less than the planet itself.
A. Since then, intelligence tests have been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average or bright children, so that special education can be provided to the dull ones.
B. In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age.
C. Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what an average child of a certain age can do -- what a 5-year-old can answer, but a 4-year-old cannot, for instance.
D. Binet developed the first set of such tests in the early 1900s to find out which children in school needed special attention.
E. Intelligence can be measured by tests.
A. He was bone-weary and soul-weary, and found himself muttering, “either I can’t manage this place, or it’s unmanageable.”
B. To his horror, he realized that he had become the victim of an amorphous, unwitting, unconscious conspiracy to immerse him in routine work that had no significance.
C. It was one of those nights in the office when the office clock was moving towards four in the morning and Bennis was still not through with the incredible mass of paper stacked before him.
D. He reached for his calendar and ran his eyes down each hour, half-hour and quarter-hour, to see where his time had gone that day, the day before, the month before.
1. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory.
2. Thus the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure.
3. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be closed totally by the political pursuit of self-interest.
4. The political model holds that individual interests are pursued in organizational life through the exercise of power and influence.
A. Group decision making, however, does not necessarily fully guard against arbitrariness and anarchy, for individual capriciousness can get substituted by collusion of group members.
B. Nature itself is an intricate system of checks and balances, meant to preserve the delicate balance between various environmental factors that affect our ecology.
C. In institutions also, there is a need to have in place a system of checks and balances which inhibits the concentration of power in only some individuals.
D. When human interventions alter this delicate balance, the outcomes have been seen to be disastrous.

Part of this sentence given below has been underlined. You have to select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

Many people mistake familiarity for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random speed.

Part of this sentence given below has been underlined. You have to select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

The management can still hire freely but cannot scold freely.
 

Part of this sentence given below has been underlined. You have to select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

British Airspace has been focusing on building European links.

Part of this sentence given below has been underlined. You have to select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

The 8th-century revival of Byzantine learning is an inexplicable phenomenon, and its economic and military precursors have yet to be discovered.

Part of this sentence given below has been underlined. You have to select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

The appetite of banks for funds was lost under the onslaught of the slowdown, corporates refused to borrow even as bank deposits flourished.
 

Everyone will admit that swindling one's fellow beings is a necessary practice; upon it is based the really sound commercial success formula ________ .

Science is a sort of news agency comparable _______ to other news agencies.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing a large number of people to believe that these leaders are ______ by altruistic desires.

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

Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more ______ than ______ .

To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers ______ of a large class of subjects ______ .

Learning is more efficient when it is _______ . It is less efficient when it is _______ .

When children become more experienced with words as visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making _____ sounds.

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.

Football evokes a ___ response in India compared to cricket, that almost _____ the nation.

Answer the questions based on the following information.
Mr Bankatlal acted as a judge for the beauty contest. There were four participants, viz. Ms Andhra Pradesh, Ms Uttar Pradesh, Ms West Bengal and Ms Maharashtra. Mrs Bankatlal, who was very anxious about the result, asked him about it as soon as he was back home. Mr Bankatlal just told that the one who was wearing the yellow saree won the contest. When Mrs Bankatlal pressed for further details, he elaborated as follows: All of them were sitting in a row.
All of them wore sarees of different colours, viz. green, yellow, white, red. There was only one runner-up and she was sitting beside Ms. Maharashtra. The runner-up was wearing the green saree. Ms West Bengal was not sitting at the ends and was not the runner up. The winner and the runner-up are not sitting adjacent to each other. Ms Maharashtra was wearing white saree. Ms Andhra Pradesh was not wearing the green saree. Participants wearing yellow saree and white saree were at the ends.
Which saree was worn by Ms Andhra Pradesh?