CAT 1998 — VARC Question 32
Inference StatementsEasy
Passage / Data
Direction: Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow.
Efficiency is all right in its place, in the shop, the factory, the store. The trouble with efficiency is that it wants to rule our play as well as our work; it won't be content to reign in the shop, it follows us home.
It can be inferred from the above passage that
Answer & solution
efficiency can become all-pervading.
- B
efficiency does not always pay.
- C
efficiency can be more of a torture than a blessing.
- D
None of these
Solution
As the passage says that efficiency won't be content to reign in the shop, but will follow us home, it implies that efficiency can become all-pervading. (b) is not the focus of the questions. (c) goes beyond the scope of the argument.