English Usage Previous Year Questions (CAT) - Set 0010
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Previous years`s CAT questions: English Usage
Post your solutions as reply to respective questions below.
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Question 1
Sam asked me to keep his secret __________
(a) secret
(b) in myself
(c) amongst us
(d) between us (CAT 1994)
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Answer: Option D
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Question 2
Sometimes the greatest inventions ________ an idea of starting simplicity
(a) stumbles upon
(b) hinge upon
(c) starves without
(d) lacks (CAT 1994)
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Answer: Option B
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Question 3
Real friends, genuinely wanting the best for the organization, _______different garbs.
(a) come in
(b) clad in
(c) dressed in
(d) clothed in (CAT 1994)
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Answer: Option A
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Question 4
Select that part which has an error.
(a) You did not wait
(b) for us before you
(c) went to meet him.
(d) Isn’t it? (CAT 1993)
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Answer: Option D
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Question 5
Select that part which has an error.
(a) The police have prevented
(b) Rajan in leaving the
(c) city without informing them
(d) two days in advance. (CAT 1993)
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Answer: Option B
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Question 6
Select that part which has an error..
(a) I would have
(b) given you the
(c) documents yesterday if
(d) you had asked for it. ( CAT 1993 )
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Answer: Option D
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Question 7
Select that part which has an error.
(a) Who have you
(b) invited for the lecture
(c) on astrophysics
(d) this evening? ( CAT 1993 )
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Answer: Option A
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Question 8
Select that part which has an error.
(a) Pakistan was the team
(b) whom most people thought
(c) would win the World Cup
(d) held in 1987. ( CAT 1992 )
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Answer: Option B
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Question 9
Select that part which has an error.
(a) When you turn to your right,
(b) you will find a big house
(c) with a beautiful garden on the front side of it
(d) and that is my residence. ( CAT 1992 )
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Answer: Option D
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Question 10
Select that part which has an error.
(a) I have been postponing calling
(b) on my friend in the hospital,
(c) but I am planning
(d) I would go there tomorrow. ( CAT 1992 )