CAT 1995 — VARC Question 45
Direction: This section contains statements followed by questions based on the statements. Read the statements and select the best option as the answer.
I have been studying it, consciously and subconsciously, for 40 years and I still find men unaccountable; people I know intimately can surprise me by some action of theirs which I never thought them capable of or by the discovery of some trait which exhibit a side of themselves that I never even suspected.
The idea in this sentence can be best summarised as
Answer & solution
Correct answer: no matter how closely you know somebody there still exists an unknown facet of his personality.
- A
men are inconsistent and therefore one should not be confident even about one's closest friends.
- B
men are unpredictable, one can never tell what they will do next; hence, one should be very careful in one's dealings.
no matter how closely you know somebody there still exists an unknown facet of his personality.
- D
None of these
The passage states that even those whom we intimately know, can surprise us at times with some unknown facet of their personality.