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This is the CAT Previous Year Question Papers for English:


SECTION II
Sub-Section II-A
Number of Questions : 10
Note: Questions 1 to 10 carry one mark each.
DIRECTIONS for Q.1 to Q4:
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
A game of strategy, as currently conceived in game theory, is a situation in which two or more "players" make choices among available alternatives (moves). The totality of choices determines the outcomes of the game, and it is assumed that the rank order of preferences for the outcomes is different for different players. Thus the "interests" of the players are generally in conflict. Whether these interests are diametrically opposed or only partially opposed depends on the type of game.
Psychologically, most interesting situations arise when the interests of the players are partly coincident and partly opposed, because then one can postulate not only a conflict among the players but also inner conflicts within the players. Each is torn between a tendency to cooperate, so as to promote the common interests, and a tendency to compete, so as to enhance his own individual interests.
Internal conflicts are always psychologically interesting. What we vaguely call "interesting" psychology is in very great measure the psychology of inner conflict. Inner conflict is also held to be an important component of serious literature as distinguished from less serious genres. The classical tragedy, as well as the serious novel, reveals the inner conflict of central figures. The superficial adventure story, on the other hand, depicts only external conflict; that is, the threats to the person with whom the reader (or viewer) identifies stem in these stories exclusively from external obstacles and from the adversaries who create them. On the most primitive level this sort of external conflict is psychologically empty. In the fisticuffs between the protagonists of good and evil, no psychological problems are involved or, at any rate, none are depicted in juvenile representations of conflict.
The detective story, the "adult" analogue of a juvenile adventure tale, has at times been described as a glorification of intellectualized conflict. However, a great deal of the interest in the plots of these stories is sustained by withholding the unraveling of a solution to a problem. The effort of solving the problem is in itself not a conflict if the adversary (the unknown criminal) remains passive, like Nature, whose secrets the scientist supposedly unravels by deduction. If the adversary actively puts obstacles in the detective's path toward the solution, there is genuine conflict. But the conflict is psychologically interesting only to the extent that it contains irrational components such as a tactical error on the criminal's part or the detective's insight into some psychological quirk of the criminal or something of this sort. Conflict conducted in a perfectly rational manner is psychologically no more interesting than a standard Western. For example, Tic-tac-toe, played perfectly by both players, is completely devoid of psychological interest. Chess may be psychologically interesting but only to the extent that it is played not quite rationally. Played completely rationally, chess would not be different from Tic-tac-toe.
In short, a pure conflict of interest (what is called a zero-sum game) although it offers a wealth of interesting conceptual problems, is not interesting psychologically, except to the extent that its conduct departs from rational norms.
1. According to the passage, internal conflicts are psychologically more interesting than external conflicts because
• a. internal conflicts, rather than external conflicts, form an important component of serious literature as distinguished from less serious genres.
• b. only juveniles or very few "adults" actually experience external conflict, while internal conflict is more widely prevalent in society.
• c. in situations of internal conflict, individuals experience a dilemma in resolving their own preferences for different outcomes.
• d. there are no threats to the reader (or viewer) in case of external conflicts.
• e.Not Attempted
2.Which, according to the author, would qualify as interesting psychology?
• a. A statistician's dilemma over choosing the best method to solve an optimisation problem.
• b. A chess player's predicament over adopting a defensive strategy against an aggressive opponent.
• c. A mountaineer's choice of the best path to Mt. Everest from the base camp.
• d. A finance manager's quandary over the best way of raising money from the market.
• e.Not Attempted
3. According to the passage, which of the following options about me application of game theory to a conflict-of-interest situation is true?
• a. Assuming that the rank order of preferences for options is different for different players.
• b. Accepting that the interests of different players are often in conflict.
• c. Not assuming that the interests are in complete disagreement.
• d. All of the above.
• e.Not Attempted
4.The problem solving process of a scientist is different from that of a detective because
• a. scientists study inanimate objects, while detectives deal with living criminals or law offenders.
• b. scientists study known objects, while detectives have to deal with unknown criminals or law offenders.
• c. scientists study phenomena that are not actively altered, while detectives deal with phenomena that have been deliberately influenced to mislead.
• d. scientists study psychologically interesting phenomena, while detectives deal with "adult" analogues of juvenile adventure tales.
• e.Not Attempted
DIRECTIONS for Q.5 to Q.7:
The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
5. (A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
(B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
(C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation - being low class and being female - that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
(D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
(E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
• a. EABDC
• b. EBDCA
• c. DAEBC
• d. BECDA
• e.Not Attempted
6. (A) When identity is thus 'defined by contrast', divergence with the West becomes central. (B) Indian religious literature such as the Bhagavad Gita or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from secular writings seen as 'western', elicits much greater interest in the West than do other Indian writings, including India's long history of heterodoxy. (C) There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics. (D) Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging. (E) The exception is the Kamasutra in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest
• a. BDACE
• b. DEABC
• c. BDECA
• d. BCEDA
• e.Not Attempted
7. (A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe - up to a point. (B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics. (C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable. (D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations. (E) This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.
• a. ADCBE
• b. EBDCA
• c. ABDCE
• d. DCBEA
• e.Not Attempted
DIRECTIONS for Q.8 to Q.10:
In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, numbered A to D.
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
8. NEAR
• a. I got there just after you left - a near miss!
• b. She and her near friend left early.
• c. The war led to a near doubling of oil prices.
• d. They came near to tears seeing the plight of the victims.
• e.Not Attempted
9. HAND
• a. I have my hand full, I cannot do it today.
• b. The minister visited the jail to see the breach at first hand.
• c. The situation is getting out of hand here!
• d. When the roof of my house was blown away, he was willing to lend me a hand.
• e.Not Attempted
10. FOR
• a. He has a great eye for detail.
• b. We are waiting for the day.
• c. I can’t bear for her to be angry.
• d. It couldn’t be done for ever.
• e.Not Attempted
SECTION II
Sub-Section II-B
Number of Questions : 20
Note: Questions 11 to 30 carry two marks each.
Directions for Questions 11 to 18:
Each of the two passages given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
PASSAGE I
Crinoline and croquet are out. As yet, no political activists have thrown themselves in front of the royal horse on Derby Day. Even so, some historians can spot the parallels. It is a time of rapid technological change. It is a period when the dominance of the world's superpower is coming under threat. It is an epoch when prosperity masks underlying economic strain. And, crucially, it is a time when policy-makers are confident that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Welcome to the Edwardian Summer of the second age of globalisation.
Spare a moment to take stock of what's been happening in the past few months. Let's start with the oil price, which has rocketed to more than $65 a barrel, more than double its level 18 months ago. The accepted wisdom is that we shouldn't worry our little heads about that, because the incentives are there for business to build new production and refining capacity, which will effortlessly bring demand and supply back into balance and bring crude prices back to S25 a barrel. As Tommy Cooper used to say, 'just like that'. Then there is the result of the French referendum on the European Constitution, seen as thick-headed luddites railing vainly against the modern world. What the French needed to realise, the argument went, was that there was no alternative to the reforms that would make the country more flexible, more competitive, more dynamic. Just the sort of reforms that allowed Gate Gourmet to sack hundreds of its staff at Heathrow after the sort of ultimatum that used to be handed out by Victorian mill owners. An alternative way of looking at the French non" is that our neighbours translate "flexibility" as "you're fired".
Finally, take a squinl at the United States. Just like Britain a century ago, a period of unquestioned superiority is drawing to a close. China is still a long way from matching America's wealth, but it is growing at a stupendous rate and economic strength brings geopolitical clout. Already, there is evidence of a new scramble for Africa as Washington and Beijing compete for oil stocks. Moreover, beneath the surface of the US economy, all is not well. Growth looks healthy enough, but the competition from China and elsewhere has meant the world's biggest economy now imports far more than it exports. The US is living beyond its means, but in this time of studied complacency a current account deficit worth 6 percent of gross domestic product is seen as a sign of strength, not weakness. In this new Edwardian summer, comfort is taken from the fact that dearer oil has not had the savage inflationary consequences of 1973-74, when a fourfold increase in the cost of crude brought an abrupt end to a postwar boom that had gone on uninterrupted for a quarter of a century. True, the cost of living has been affected by higher transport costs, but we are talking of inflation at 2.3 per cent and not 27 per cent. Yet the idea that higher oil prices are of little consequence is fanciful. If people are paying more to fill up their cars it leaves them with less to spend on everything else, but there is a reluctance to consume less. In the 1970s unions were strong and able to negotiate large, compensatory pay deals that served to intensify inflationary pressure. In 2005, that avenue is pretty much closed off, but the abolition of all the controls on credit that existed in the 1970s means that households are invited to borrow more rather than consume less. The knock-on effects of higher oil prices are thus felt in different ways - through high levels of indebtedness, in inflated asset prices, and in balance of payments deficits.
There are those who point out, rightly, that modern industrial capitalism has proved mightily resilient these past 250 years, and that a sign of the enduring strength of the system has been the way it apparently shrugged off everything - a stock market crash, 9/11, rising oil prices - that have been thrown at it in the half decade since the millennium. Even so, there are at least three reasons for concern. First, we have been here before. In terms of political economy, the first era of globalisation mirrored our own. There was a belief in unfettered capital flows, in free trade, and in the power of the market. It was a time of massive income inequality and unprecedented migration. Eventually, though, there was a backlash, manifested in a struggle between free traders and protectionists, and in rising labour militancy.
Second, the world is traditionally at its most fragile at times when the global balance of power is in flux. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain's role as the hegemonic power was being challenged by the rise of the United States, Germany, and Japan while the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires were clearly in rapid decline, Looking ahead from 2005, it is clear that over the next two or three decades, both China and India - which together account for half the world's population - will flex their muscles. Finally, there is the question of what rising oil prices tell us. The emergence of China and India means global demand for crude is likely to remain high at a time when experts say production is about to top out. If supply constraints start to bite, any declines in the price are likely to be short-term cyclical affairs punctuating a long upward trend
11. By the expression 'Edwardian Summer', the author refers to a period in which there is
• a. unparalleled luxury and opulence.
• b. a sense of complacency among people because of all-round prosperity.
• c. a culmination of all-round economic prosperity.
• d. an imminent danger lurking behind economic prosperity.
• e.Not Attempted
12. What, according to the author, has resulted in a widespread belief in the resilience of modern capitalism?
• a. Growth in the economies of Western countries despite shocks in the form of increase in levels of indebtedness and inflated asset prices.
• b. Increase in the prosperity of Western countries and China despite rising oil prices
• c. Continued growth of Western economies despite a rise in terrorism, an increase in oil prices and other similar shocks.
• d. The success of continued reforms aimed at making Western economies more dynamic, competitive and efficient.
• e.Not Attempted
13. Which of the following best represents the key argument made by the author?
• a. The rise in oil prices, the flux in the global balance of power and historical precedents should make us question our belief that the global economic prosperity would continue.
• b. The belief that modern industrial capitalism is highly resilient and capable of overcoming shocks will be belied soon.
• c. Widespread prosperity leads to neglect of early signs of underlying economic weakness, manifested in higher oil prices and a flux in the global balance of power.
• d. A crisis is imminent in the West given the growth of countries like China and India and the increase in oil prices.
• e.Not Attempted
14. What can be inferred about the author's view when he states, 'As Tommy Cooper used to say "just like that'"?
• a. Industry has incentive to build new production and refining capacity and therefore oil prices would reduce.
• b. There would be a correction in the price levels of oil once new production capacity is added.
• c. The decline in oil prices is likely to be short-term in nature.
• d. It is not necessary that oil prices would go down to earlier levels.
• e.Not Attempted
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