CAT 1999 — VARC Question 17
Directions: For each of the two questions, indicate which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unseasonable man in the passage below.
Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted, but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at an arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.
Directions: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
The MP rose up to say that in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on unanimously.
Answer & solution
rose to say that she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
- B
rose up to say that, the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on
- C
rose to say that, in her opinion, she thought that the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
- D
rose to say that, in her opinion, the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on
(a) is the correct answer, as it corrects all the errors in the original sentence. Other options do not.
Redundancy:
(i) ‘rose up’: ‘rise’ includes the idea of upward motion.
(ii) ‘in her opinion, she thought’: use either ‘in her opinion’ or ‘she thought’.
Idiom (iii) ‘passed on’: Bills are always ‘passed’ in Parliament. ‘Pass on’ is a phrasal verb and has its own uses.