CAT Sample Questions

Verbal Section : Sentence Completion Sample Questions

21. The - tones of the flute succeeded in - his tense nerves.
    1. rhapsodic - minimising
    2. blatant - enhancing
    3. hovendous - calming
    4. vibrant - portraying
    5. mellifluous - soothing.

    Ans :E

22. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is - and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in thercopy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to - it.
    1. lost - forget
    2. implicit - extend
    3. impaired - sacrifise
    4. ambiguous - apply
    5. assumed - examine.

    Ans :C

23. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look -they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the - of natural beauty and human glory.
    1. great - immutability
    2. joyful - mortality
    3. conventional - wildness
    4. cheerful - transitoriness
    5. colorful - abstractness.

    Ans :D

24. Despite the - of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for - the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
    1. pedantry - reinstating
    2. enthusiasm - symbolizing
    3. skepticism - deciphering
    4. antipathy - involving
    5. discernment - evaluating.

    Ans :C

25. If duty is the natural - of one's the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
    1. outgrowth - control over
    2. arbiter - responsibility for
    3. correlate - understanding of
    4. determinant - involvement in
    5. mitigant - preoccupation with .

    Ans :A

26. Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory - it should do.
    1. supposed - asserted
    2. voubted -warranted
    3. assumed - deduced
    4. demonstrated - predicted
    5. estimated - accepted

    Ans :D

27. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the - of creation.
    1. variety
    2. economy
    3. profusion
    4. clarity
    5. precision.

    Ans :B

28. It is a great - to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with - effects.
    1. Disappointment - superfluous
    2. Convenience - exquisite
    3. Advantage - deleterious
    4. Accomplishment - profound
    5. Misfortune - unpredictable.

    Ans :C

29. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective - were simply not available.
    1. indeterminable - safeguards
    2. unusual - alternatives
    3. inconsequential - substitutes
    4. proven - antidotes
    5. increasing - procedures.

    Ans :C

30. Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that - sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of - facts.
    1. emotional - impersonal
    2. familiar : symbolic
    3. disturbing - ordinary
    4. material - remote
    5. defenitive - controvoisial.

    Ans :D