CAT 2004 — VARC Question 20
Fill up the blanks A, B, C ... F, in the two passages below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.
"Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I did not file any income tax returns". With that ______A______ statement, Ramesh embarked on an account of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs. 20,000 in unpaid taxes. With _____B________ and _______C______, the 20,000 became 60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust funds can be ______D_______; automobiles may be _______E______, and auctioned off. Nothing belongs to the ______F_______ until the case is settled."
Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.
- The two neighbours never fought each other.
- Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
- They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
- We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
- We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.
Answer & solution
BEDAC
- B
DEBAC
- C
BDCAE
- D
BCEDA
The ‘they’ in sentence C refers to the two neighbours in sentence A. Therefore, AC is a pair. Therefore options 3 and 4 can be eliminated.
Sentence D introduces the concept of a resident joined by a neighbour in fighting an intruder. Thus, D precedes AC making DAC a mandatory sequence. That leaves us with option 1.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.