CAT 2002 — VARC Question 35
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.
- Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive hedging.
- Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
- Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent due to financial markets will also reduce that risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourages excessive hedging.
- Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent to financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
Answer & solution
- A
A
B
- C
C
- D
D
The action is by the government and not of the government. That helps us to rule out sentences A and D. Also, ‘hedging’ is not correct in sentence A. Hedge is ‘a means of protection or defense, especially against financial losses.
‘Gambling’ is more appropriate (reduce risk and encourage gambling) in the context of the sentence. Sentence C has a verbose segment –‘reduce that risk that private …’ It should be ‘reduce the/those risks…’ B is the most appropriate.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.