CAT 2023 Slot 1 Verbal Ability Actual Question Paper

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: The discovery helps to explain archeological similarities between the Paleolithic peoples of China, Japan, and the Americas. Paragraph: The researchers also uncovered an unexpected genetic link between Native Americans and Japanese people. ___(1)___. During the deglaciation period, another group branched out from northern coastal China and travelled to Japan. ___(2)___. "We were surprised to find that this ancestral source also contributed to the Japanese gene pool, especially the indigenous Ainus," says Li. ___(3)___. They shared similarities in how they crafted stemmed projectile points for arrowheads and spears. ___(4)___. "This suggests that the Pleistocene connection among the Americas, China, and Japan was not confined to culture but also to genetics," says senior author Qing-Peng Kong, an evolutionary geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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. 1. In English, there is no systematic rule for the naming of numbers; after ten, we have "eleven" and "twelve" and then the teens: "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen" and so on. 2. Even more confusingly, some English words invert the numbers they refer to: the word "fourteen" puts the four first, even though it appears last. 3. It can take children a while to learn all these words, and understand that "fourteen" is different from "forty". 4. For multiples of 10, English speakers switch to a different pattern: "twenty", "thirty", "forty" and so on. 5. If you didn't know the word for "eleven", you would be unable to just guess it – you might come up with something like "one-teen".

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. 1. Having an appreciation for the workings of another person’s mind is considered a prerequisite for natural language acquisition, strategic social interaction, reflexive thought, and moral judgment. 2. It is a ‘theory of mind’ though some scholars prefer to call it ‘mentalizing’ or ‘mindreading’, which is important for the development of one's cognitive abilities. 3. Though we must speculate about its evolutionary origin, we do have indications that the capacity evolved sometime in the last few million years. 4. This capacity develops from early beginnings in the first year of life to the adult’s fast and often effortless understanding of others’ thoughts, feelings, and intentions. 5. One of the most fascinating human capacities is the ability to perceive and interpret other people’s behaviour in terms of their mental states.

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 1. What precisely are the “unusual elements” that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience? 2 . It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved. 3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that “ordinary” murder doesn’t. 4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer. 1. Algorithms hosted on the internet are accessed by many, so biases in AI models have resulted in much larger impact, adversely affecting far larger groups of people. 2. Though “algorithmic bias” is the popular term, the foundation of such bias is not in algorithms, but in the data; algorithms are not biased, data is, as algorithms merely reflect persistent patterns that are present in the training data. 3. Despite their widespread impact, it is relatively easier to fix AI biases than human-generated biases, as it is simpler to identify the former than to try to make people unlearn behaviors learnt over generations. 4. The impact of biased decisions made by humans is localised and geographically confined, but with the advent of AI, the impact of such decisions is spread over a much wider scale.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.