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CAT Questions

• 1.

  Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  • Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.
  • Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
  • He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests.
  • The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation text in 1975.
  • As such, we ought to view their interests alongside and equal to human interests, which results in humans having direct moral duties towards animals.
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• 2.

  Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  • The UK is a world leader in developing cultivated meat and the approval of a cultivated pet food is an important milestone.
  • If we're to realise the full potential benefits of cultivated meat the government must invest in research and infrastructure.
  • The first UK applications for cultivated meat produced for humans remain under assessment with the Food Standards Agency.
  • The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human consumption.
  • It underscores the potential for new innovation to help reduce the negative impacts of intensive animal agriculture.
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• 3.

  The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
  Lyric poetry is a genre of private meditation rather than public commitment. The impulse in Marxism toward changing a society deemed unacceptable in its basic design would seem to place demands on lyric poetry that such poetry, with its tendency toward the personal, the small scale, and the idiosyncratic, could never answer. There is within Marxism, however, also a strand of thought that would locate in lyric poetry alternative modes of perception and description that call forth a vision of worlds at odds with a repressive reality or that draw attention to the workings of ideology within the hegemonic culture. The poetic imagination may indeed deflect larger social concerns, but it may also be implicitly critical and utopian.

  • Marxism has internal contradictions due to which one strand of Marxism sees no merit in lyric poetry while another appreciates the alternative modes of perception in poetry.
  • The focus of lyric poetry as personal may not seem compatible with Marxism. However, it is possible to envisage lyric poetry as a symbol of resistance against an oppressive culture.
  • Marxism makes unreasonable demands on lyric poetry. However, lyric poetry has its own merits that are largely ignored by Marxism due to its personal nature.
  • The focus of lyric poetry is largely personal while that of Marxism is bringing change in society. Unless the difference is resolved, poetry will remain largely utopian.
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• 4.

  Let $x$, $y$, and $z$ be real numbers satisfying
  \(4(x^2 + y^2 + z^2) = a,\)
  \(4(x - y - z) = 3 + a.\)
  Then $a$ equals ?

  • 3
  • 4
  • 1
  • $1\frac{1}{3}$
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• 5.

  When $10^{100}$ is divided by 7, the remainder is ?

  • 6
  • 3
  • 1
  • 4
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• 6.

  The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
  John Cleese told Fox News Digital that comedians do not have the freedom to be funny in 2022. “There’s always been limitations on what they’re allowed to say,” Cleese said. “I think it’s particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom, where you’re not checking everything you say critically before you move on. What you have to be able to do is to build without knowing where you’re going because you’ve never been there before. That’s what creativity is — you have to be allowed to build. And a lot of comedians now are sitting there and when they think of something, they say something like, ‘Can I get away with it? I don’t think so. So and so got into trouble, and he said that, oh, she said that.’ You see what I mean? And that’s the death of creativity.”

  • Comedians must not check what they think and say. They must go where no one has gone before.
  • Comedians are being prevented from saying what they want and that is the death of this art form.
  • Creativity and critical thinking cannot work together. Comedians must first be creative, and later be critical.
  • Freedom and creativity are essential for comedy. Fear about offending people hinders originality.
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