CAT 1997 — VARC Question 18
Single BlankEasy
Direction: In each of the following questions, a part of a sentence has been left blank. Select from among the four options given below each question, the one which would best fill in the blank.
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important for companies, but, today, they are ___.
Answer & solution
more crucial than ever
- B
more crucial
- C
much more crucial
- D
very crucial
Solution
'More crucial than ever' shows that though they were important earlier too, now they are even more important. (a) matches the verbal tense in the sentence ‘more crucial than (they have) ever (been)’.