Mandatory Pairs — CAT Previous-Year Questions

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.

1. In the case of King Merolchazzar’s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch.
2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighbouring princess, dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
4. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
5. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.

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.

1. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.
2. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic 'separation wall' now being built in the West Bank by Israel.
3. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
4. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometres at a stretch.
5. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel's American allies who are going to pay for most of it.

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.

1. Call it the third wave sweeping the Indian media.
2. Now, they are starring in a new role, as suave dealmakers who are in a hurry to strike alliances and agreements.
3. Look around and you will find a host of deals that have been inked or are ready to be finalized.
4. Then the media barons wrested back control from their editors, and turned marketing warriors with the brand as their missile.
5. The first came with those magnificent men in their mahogany chambers who took on the world with their mighty fountain pens.

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.

1. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature as that "Mission Accomplished" banner hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the end of the Iraq war.
2. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities continue unabated.
3. Washington responded to the favourable turn in economic news with enthusiasm.
4. The celebrations and high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be found beyond the Beltway.
5. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2% and the monthly unemployment rate dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US capital.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentences is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
2. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
3. He acknowledges too in fact he returns to the point often that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
4. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
5. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street cleaners.

 

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentences is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
2. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
3. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably  some rules.
4. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.

The questions below consist of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence.

1. It was a fascinating tempting green, like the hue of the great green grasshopper.
2. Her teeth were very white and her voice had a cruel and at the same time a coaxing sound.
3. While she was uncorking the bottle I noticed how green her eyeballs were.
4. I saw, too, how small her hands were, which showed that she did not use them much.