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English Usage Previous Year Questions (CAT) - Set 0012

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Previous years`s CAT questions: English Usage

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Question 1
Choose the one that expresses the idea most correctly.

(a) We invited only the people who he said were his friends.
(b) We invited only the people whom he said were his friends.
(c) We invited only the people whom he said was his friends.
(d) We invited only the person whom he said were his friends.Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option A
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Question 2
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) A feasibility survey has now
(b) been completed in India to establish
(c) a network of felicitate contacts
(d) between small and medium enterprises.Â Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option C
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Question 3
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) Privatization generally represents
(b) an ideological response
(c) to the perceived problem
(d) in the public sector. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option C
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Question 4
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) The Indian governmentâs choice
(b) of the EEC as a partner
(c) stem from the fact
(d) that the community is the most important market for India.Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option C
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Question 5
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) A person who earns a
(b) few thousand rupees
(c) and decides to save
(d) many of it must be a miser. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option D
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Question 6
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) Had you been in my
(b) position, you were definitely
(c) shown your displeasure
(d) at the turn of events. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option B
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Question 7
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) I definitely disagree
(b) with the position that
(c) requires that money
(d) is a key motivator. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option C
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Question 8
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) This has slowed the progress
(b) of reforms in many countries
(c) because the choice of either of the extreme
(d) positions inevitably invite criticism. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option D
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Question 9
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) Gavaskar was a great batsman who
(b) having played more than 100
(c) test matches, he then decided
(d) to call it a day. Â Â (CAT 1991)
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Answer: Option C
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Question 10
Choose the part which contains a mistake.

(a) When we sold of all our
(b) furniture, crockery and
(c) other household goods,
(d) the room looked bare.Â Â (CAT 1991)
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