CAT 2002 — VARC Question 33
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
- A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of device, costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated by underhand deals.
- A symbiotic relationship develops among contractors, bureaucracy and politicians, and costs are artificially escalated with a large number of devices and black money is generated through underhand deals.
- A symbiotic relationship develops among contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated on underhand deals.
- A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and politicians, and by large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated by underhand deals.
Answer & solution
- A
A
B
- C
C
- D
D
A large number of anything has to be more than one or has to be plural.
In sentence A, in place of ‘device’, it should be (a large number of) ‘devices’.
Article ‘the’ precedes only ‘politicians’ in sentence C. For consistency, it should precede either each one of them or none at all (as in sentence B).
In sentence D, article ‘a’ is required. It has to be precede ‘large number of’.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.