Double BlankCAT Previous-Year Questions

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Double Blank · CAT PYQs

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q1.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

Their achievement in the field of literature is described as ______; sometimes it is even called ______.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q2.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

From the time she had put her hair up, every man she had met had grovelled before her and she had acquired a mental attitude toward the other sex which was a blend of _______ and _______.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q3.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

This simplified ________ to the decision-making process is a must read for anyone ______ important real estate, personal, or professional decisions.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q4.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

Physicians may soon have _____ to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the ____ nerves that once controlled their muscles.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q5.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

The Internet is a medium where users have nearly _____ choices and _____ constraints about where to go and what to do.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q6.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious, for when punctuation, or lack of it, _____ itself, it is usually because it _____.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q7.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

The argument that the need for a looser fiscal policy to _____ demand outweighs the need to _____ budget deficits is persuasive.

CAT 2003 Slot 2 · VARC
Q8.

Fill in the blanks in the passage with the most appropriate set of words from the options for each blank.

The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had _____ to sit at home and think about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and _____ the world.

CAT 1998 · VARC
Passage / Data

Direction: Fill in the blanks of the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the options given for each.

Q9.

Football evokes a ___ response in India compared to cricket, that almost ___ the nation.

CAT 1998 · VARC
Passage / Data

Direction: Fill in the blanks of the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the options given for each.

Q10.

Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom — these areas are few of the ___ for the ___ of proper emotional reactions.

CAT 1998 · VARC
Passage / Data

Direction: Fill in the blanks of the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the options given for each.

Q11.

Learning is more efficient when it is ___. It is less efficient when it is ___.

CAT 1998 · VARC
Passage / Data

Direction: Fill in the blanks of the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the options given for each.

Q12.

To a greater or lesser degree all the civilized countries of the world are made up of a small class of rulers ___ and of a large class of subjects ___.

CAT 1998 · VARC
Passage / Data

Direction: Fill in the blanks of the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the options given for each.

Q13.

Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more ___ than ___.