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CAT 2002 — VARC Question 34

ParallelismEasy
Passage / Data

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.

  1. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create difference of prices at which   goods are traded on the world market and their price within a local market.
  2. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference of prices at which  goods are traded with the world market and their prices in the local market.
  3. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create a difference between prices at  which goods are traded on the world market and their prices within a local market.
  4. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies that they create a difference across prices at  which goods are traded with the world market and their prices within a local market.

Answer & solution

  • A

    A

  • B

    B

  • C

  • D

    D

Solution

Sentences B and D can be eliminated as goods are traded on the world market and not with the world market.
 In sentence A, article ‘a’ should precede ‘difference of prices’.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

CAT 2002 VARC Q34: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best — Solution | TheCATExam