CAT 2008 — VARC Question 11
Each of the following questions has a sentence with two blanks. Given below each question are five pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.
Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand, there is his ______________endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including ___________.
Answer & solution
- A
constitutional; weather
congenital; education
- C
personal; climate
- D
economic; learning
- E
genetic; pedagogy
The first word needs to be related to something that is ‘inborn’, because it is an endowment or gift. Two words come close to mean that- ‘congenital’ and ‘genetic’.
‘Congenital’, may be ‘innate’ or ‘inherited’ or caused by the “environment”.
“Genetic,” means ‘pertaining to origins’.
However, the “effect of the environment” is more related to general teaching or ‘education’ than to ‘pedagogy’. ‘Pedagogy’ is ‘the function or work of a teacher’ or ‘science of teaching; education; instructional methods’.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.