List of top Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions asked in CAT

In the question, a part of the paragraph or sentences has been underlined. From the choices given to you, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.
Victory is everything in the Indian universe and Tendulkar will be expected to translate his genius to that effect. To contemplate any other option is to contemplate the risk of failure

In the question, four sentences are given between the sentences numbered 1 and 6. You are required to arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph.
Hiss was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(a) Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938.
(b) When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials.
(c) Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers.
(d) He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1930s was Hiss.
Then, bizarrely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.

Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a logically coherent paragraph.
A.Still, Sophie might need an open heart surgery later in life and now be more prone to respiratory infections.
(b) But with the news that his infant daughter Sophie has a hole in her heart, he appears quite vulnerable.
(c) While the condition sounds bad, it is not life threatening, and frequently corrects itself.
(d) Sylvester Stallone has made millions and built a thriving career out of looking invincible.

Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a logically coherent paragraph.
A.The Saheli Programme, run by the US Cross-Cultural Solutions, is offering a three week tour of India that involves a lot more than frenzied sightseeing.
(b) Participants interested in women's issues will learn about arranged marriages, dowry and infanticide.
(c) Holiday packages include all sorts of topics, but female infanticide must be the first for tourism.
(d) Interspersed with these talks and meetings are visits to cities like New Delhi and Agra, home to the Taj Mahal.

Given below are six statements followed by sets of three. You are to mark the option in which the statements are most logically related.
1. Some paper is wood
2. All wood is good
3. All that is good is wood
4. All wood is paper
5. All paper is good
6. Some paper is good

In the question a pair of capitalised words is followed by four pair of words. You are required to mark as the answer the pair of words which have a relationship between them most similar to the relationship between the capitalised pair
Malapropism : Words — Find the pair most similar in relationship to the capitalised pair.

In the question, four sentences are given between the sentences numbered 1 and 6. You are required to arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph.
Am I one of the people who are worried that Bill Clinton’s second term might be destroyed by the constitutional crisis?
(a) On the other hand, ordinary citizens have put the campaign behind them.
(b) In other words, what worries me is that Bill Clinton could exhibit a version of what George Bush used to refer to as Big Mo.
(c) That is, he might have so much campaign momentum that he may not be able to stop campaigning.
(d) Well, it’s true that I’ve been wondering whether a President could be impeached for refusing to stop talking about the bridge we need to build to the 21st century.
They now prefer to watch their favourite soaps and ads on TV rather than senators.

Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a logically coherent paragraph.
A.That Hollywood is a man's world is certainly true, but it is not the whole truth.
(b) Even Renaissance film actress, Jodie Foster, who hosts this compendium of movie history, confesses surprise at this.
(c) She says that she had no idea that women were so active in the industry even in those days.
(d) During the silent era, for example, female scriptwriters outnumbered males 10 to 1.

In the question a pair of capitalised words is followed by four pair of words. You are required to mark as the answer the pair of words which have a relationship between them most similar to the relationship between the capitalised pair
Dulcet : Raucous — Find the pair most similar in relationship to the capitalised pair.

In the question a pair of capitalised words is followed by four pair of words. You are required to mark as the answer the pair of words which have a relationship between them most similar to the relationship between the capitalised pair
Brick : Building — Find the pair most similar in relationship to the capitalised pair.

In the question, four sentences are given between the sentences numbered 1 and 6. You are required to arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph.
Historically, stained glass was almost entirely reserved for ecclesiastical spaces.
(a) By all counts, he has accomplished that mission with unmistakable style.
(b) “It is my mission to bring it kicking and screaming out of that milieu,” says Clarke.
(c) The first was the jewel-like windows he designed for a Cistercian Church in Switzerland.
(d) Two recent projects show his genius in the separate worlds of the sacred and the mundane.
The second was a spectacular, huge skylight in a shopping complex in Brazil.

In the question a pair of capitalised words is followed by four pair of words. You are required to mark as the answer the pair of words which have a relationship between them most similar to the relationship between the capitalised pair
Action : Reaction — Find the pair most similar in relationship to the capitalised pair.