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CAT 2025 Lesson : Verbal: Nov '25 to Dec '25-2025 - OMET PJ & CR - 12 Dec 2025
1) Read the following statement carefully.
[XAT 2025]
A. Whatever that might be on Europa—far from the Sun, and beneath kilometres of ice—it will not be sunlight.
B. The final ingredient for a habitable world is a source of energy for life to exploit.
C. On Earth almost every living thing ultimately depends on photosynthesis for its energy, including the rich ecosystems in the ocean depths, discovered in the 1980s and which helped the idea of life on Europa gain a foothold.
D. Their inhabitants do not benefit from sunlight directly, but their metabolisms are powered by chemicals created in the photosynthesising, oxygen-rich surface oceans far above.
E. That is a bit of a problem.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.
(1) E, D, B, C, A
(2) B, A, E, C, D
(3) C, E, B, A, D
(4) D, E, C, B, A
(5) A, B, E, D, C
2) Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
A. Back then, they were owned by companies and installed on their premises.
B. Rooms and servers began to replace computer mainframes in the 1990’s.
C. These were supplemented by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance of PC semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.
D. They mostly ran on chips made by IBM and HP, the big tech of the day.
E. Things started to change once again around a decade ago, when Amazon began selling some of its spare server capacity.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. E, A, D, C, B
3. B, A, D, C, E
4. E, D, C, B, A
5. B, E, C, D, A
3) Go through the statements below and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
A. Maybe you have survived major trauma and have a hard time feeling safe.
B. You’ll probably discover that your fear and struggles make sense on account of what you’ve lived through.
C. Instead of beating yourself up for reacting in ways you don’t understand, you can develop compassion for yourself and what you’ve been through.
D. Perhaps you have experienced a sudden death, and you are often anxious about the health of your loved ones.
E. You may also find out that you have more strength than you knew, the same strength that has sustained you this far.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?
1. B, A, D, C, E
2. E, B, A, D, C
3. E, A, D, C. B
4. D, C, B, A, E
5. E, D, C, B, A
4) Arrange the following sentences in a LOGICAL sequence:
[XAT 2022]
1. In America, primary-age pupils are on average five months behind where they would usually be in maths, and four months in reading, according to McKinsey, a consultancy.
2. As a new school year gets under way in many countries, the harm caused by months of closure is becoming ever clearer.
3. The crisis will accelerate that trend.
4. The damage is almost certainly worse in places such as India and Mexico, where the disruption to schooling has been greater.
5. Even before pandemic, parents around the world were growing more willing to pay for extra lessons in the hope of boosting their children's education.
(1) 3,5,2,4,1
(2) 2,3,1,4,5
(3) 5,3,2,1,4
(4) 5,1,3,2,4
(5) 2,1,4,5,3
5) Arrange the following sentences in a LOGICAL sequence:
[XAT 2022]
1. But when it comes to companies that lack computer programmers, the government is far more sympathetic.
2. As a result, limited access to foreign talent is a common gripe of tech founders and venture capitalists.
3. And, demand for the latter has soared among British startups.
4. This is less inconsistent than it may seem.
5. An HGV driver takes between six and ten weeks to train; a competent coder several years.
(1) 1,4,5,3,2
(2) 3,5,4,2,1
(3) 3,5,1,2,4
(4) 1,2,5,3,4
(5) 3,4,2,1,5
6) Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
[XAT 2023]
1. I’m not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I’ve immersed myself in computer and related technologies, I’ve sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I’ve become aware of a transforming event looming in the first half of the twenty first century.
4. I’d have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality.
(A) 3, 1, 4, 2, 5
(B) 1, 3, 4, 5, 2
(C) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(D) 4, 1, 2, 3, 5
(E) 4, 3, 1, 5, 2
7) Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
[XAT 2023]
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists, chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup, whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of five gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
(A) 1, 4, 2, 3
(B) 1, 3, 4, 2
(C) 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 3, 1, 2, 4
(E) 1, 2, 3, 4
1) Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2025]
Employees complaining about mundane tasks are often ignored. There is a listlessness that settles around them. A bored employee may continue to produce good results, but that can also be because the tasks are repetitive, and the outcomes are expected.
Which of the following options can be BEST inferred from the passage?
(1) Good performance makes organizations overlook their employees’ state of mind.
(2) A bored employee must be a bad performer for the organization to take notice.
(3) Boredom is a serious problem that needs immediate attention.
(4) Mundane tasks create listlessness around good performers.
(5) Listlessness settles around good performers who are bored.
2) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2025]
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Which of the following options can be BEST concluded from the passage?
(1) Unless we are put to test for our beliefs, we do not know what our true beliefs are.
(2) To claim to know anything we must apply it in a situation and then judge ourselves.
(3) Most of the population does not know what being bad or being good actually is.
(4) To claim to be good people, we should know what temptation means.
(5) How we label ourselves depends entirely on how much we have fought for that label.
3) Observe the cartoon below carefully and answer the question that follows.
Which of the following options BEST explains the underlying message depicted in the cartoon?
(1) Love is about caring for others even if it wears you out.
(2) Our sense of identity is based on how others interpret us.
(3) Our interpretation of others’ reality is mostly arbitrary.
(4) Our sense of duty for others can overwhelm our sense of self.
(5) Our understanding of others, based on our beliefs, may not be true.
4) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
Fear is the greatest motivator of all time. Conflict born of fear is behind our every action, driving us forward like the cogs of a clock. Fear is desire’s dark dress, its doppelgänger. “Love and dread are brothers,” says Julian of Norwich. As desire is wanting and fear is not-wanting, they become inexorably linked; just as desire can be destructive (the desire for power), fear can be constructive (fear of hurting another); fear of poverty becomes desire for wealth.
Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the paragraph?
1. A positive action generally has a foundation of fear underneath.
2. The interplay of fear and desire helps in guiding one’s action.
3. Fear is a powerful motivator that leads to extraordinary achievements.
4. While fear is perceived as negative, it can be a force for good.
5. Fear paves the way to positive transformation when paired with desire.
5) Read the following paragraphs and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
Paragraph 1:
Here are some handy rules of thumb. Anyone who calls themselves a thought leader is to be avoided. A man who does not wear socks cannot be trusted. And a company that holds an employee-appreciation day does not appreciate its employees.
Paragraph 2:
It is not just that the message sent by acknowledging staff for one out of 260-odd working days is a bit of a giveaway (there isn’t a love-your-spouse day ... for the same reason). It is also that the ideas are usually so tragically unappreciative. You have worked hard all year so you get a slice of cold pizza or a rock stamped with the words “You rock”?
Which of the following BEST describes the relationship of the first paragraph with the second paragraph?
1. The first paragraph is redundant, in the presence of the second paragraph.
2. The first paragraph is humorous, while the second paragraph is sarcastic.
3. The second paragraph gives evidence to the claims made by the first paragraph.
4. Without the second paragraph the first paragraph is meaningless.
5. The first paragraph evokes interest, the second paragraph elaborates.
6) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
How do we choose one discovery over any other? The physician Lewis Thomas made a choice. He bluntly asserts: “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.”
The science writer Timothy Ferris agrees: “Our ignorance, of course, has always been with us, and always will be. What is new is our awareness of it, our awakening to its fathomless dimensions, and it is this, more than anything else, that marks the coming of age of our species.”
It is an odd, unsettling thought that the culmination of our greatest century of discovery should be the confirmation of our ignorance. How did such a thing come about?
Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the above passage?
1. Humans know more when they know they know very little.
2. Humans became scientists when they realized that they were ignorant.
3. Humans progressed because they knew that they knew very little.
4. The realization that humans are ignorant led them to invent new things.
5. That they do not know enough make humans seek to know more.
7) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.
Based on the above information, which of the following statements MUST be true?
1. If she wants to master knowledge, she must reflect on the information.
2. If she reflects on the information, she will master the knowledge.
3. If she has not mastered knowledge, she must have not reflected on information.
4. If she has mastered the knowledge, she might have reflected on the information.
5. If she is a master of knowledge, it is because she is a reflector of information.
8) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
That’s how life plays out for all of us. We lose some. Like sportspersons, we too pack our gear and go to work. But unlike them, the gaze of the world is not upon us. Most of us do our business in anonymity, very few of us are emotionally wired to the outcomes of our day jobs. We don’t come back feeling like winners. Or losers. As sports fans we can summon empathy for those who stretch their bodies and minds to the limit in the pursuit of athletic excellence and provide such joys in the process.
But we will never experience the highs that are their reward. And we will never know the depth of their lows, which are their burden.
Still, no one will know better than Rohit and Dravid that its already a new day. There might never be a World Cup win for them. But there are loved ones to go to. Life awaits still.
Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the above passage?
1. Life moves on, and as sports fans, we should do too.
2. The wins and loss in sports do not exist in other professions.
3. We should treat winning and losing as imposters.
4. Just because we enjoy sports does not mean we understand the sportspersons.
5. We should put ourselves in others shoes rather than judge them for performance.
9) Read the following excerpt carefully.
[XAT 2023]
In the future, hydrogen may form a significant part of our energy systems. Today it is mostly used in oil refineries and fertiliser but in the future hydrogen could power our cars, heat our homes, and fuel industry. A recent McKinsey study suggested that in less than 25 years, hydrogen could account for 18% of global energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from current levels by some 6 gigatons. . . .
Which of the following sentences will MOST logically complete the above excerpt?
A. The impact of such a change in the energy system would be huge, potentially generating 2,500 billion in revenue globally and creating more than 30 million jobs.
B. Despite the potential, 90% of the general population knew nothing about hydrogen technology.
C. Earlier, experts thought that hydrogen fuel would be too expensive.
D. Hydrogen can be made through reformation, electrolysis, or pyrolysis, comes labelled in different colours from simple green to more complicated turquoise, can be stored as a gas, cryogenic liquid, converted to ammonia or even borane and then finally made useful through a fuel cell, engine, or burner.
E. Germany unsuccessfully experimented with trains fuelled by hydrogen.
10) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2023]
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits filed in the entire US court system. On its sixth birthday, the Huffington Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost 164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural firm Gramazio & Kohler used a group of autonomous flying robots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting firm Accenture has 750 hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000 professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence. What could the author be trying to prove?
A. What old firms can do to survive.
B. How professionals are getting replaced by technology.
C. How new organizational forms are emerging.
D. How old firms are dying.
E. How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
[XAT 2025]
A. Whatever that might be on Europa—far from the Sun, and beneath kilometres of ice—it will not be sunlight.
B. The final ingredient for a habitable world is a source of energy for life to exploit.
C. On Earth almost every living thing ultimately depends on photosynthesis for its energy, including the rich ecosystems in the ocean depths, discovered in the 1980s and which helped the idea of life on Europa gain a foothold.
D. Their inhabitants do not benefit from sunlight directly, but their metabolisms are powered by chemicals created in the photosynthesising, oxygen-rich surface oceans far above.
E. That is a bit of a problem.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.
(1) E, D, B, C, A
(2) B, A, E, C, D
(3) C, E, B, A, D
(4) D, E, C, B, A
(5) A, B, E, D, C
2) Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
A. Back then, they were owned by companies and installed on their premises.
B. Rooms and servers began to replace computer mainframes in the 1990’s.
C. These were supplemented by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance of PC semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.
D. They mostly ran on chips made by IBM and HP, the big tech of the day.
E. Things started to change once again around a decade ago, when Amazon began selling some of its spare server capacity.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?
1. A, B, C, D, E
2. E, A, D, C, B
3. B, A, D, C, E
4. E, D, C, B, A
5. B, E, C, D, A
3) Go through the statements below and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
A. Maybe you have survived major trauma and have a hard time feeling safe.
B. You’ll probably discover that your fear and struggles make sense on account of what you’ve lived through.
C. Instead of beating yourself up for reacting in ways you don’t understand, you can develop compassion for yourself and what you’ve been through.
D. Perhaps you have experienced a sudden death, and you are often anxious about the health of your loved ones.
E. You may also find out that you have more strength than you knew, the same strength that has sustained you this far.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?
1. B, A, D, C, E
2. E, B, A, D, C
3. E, A, D, C. B
4. D, C, B, A, E
5. E, D, C, B, A
4) Arrange the following sentences in a LOGICAL sequence:
[XAT 2022]
1. In America, primary-age pupils are on average five months behind where they would usually be in maths, and four months in reading, according to McKinsey, a consultancy.
2. As a new school year gets under way in many countries, the harm caused by months of closure is becoming ever clearer.
3. The crisis will accelerate that trend.
4. The damage is almost certainly worse in places such as India and Mexico, where the disruption to schooling has been greater.
5. Even before pandemic, parents around the world were growing more willing to pay for extra lessons in the hope of boosting their children's education.
(1) 3,5,2,4,1
(2) 2,3,1,4,5
(3) 5,3,2,1,4
(4) 5,1,3,2,4
(5) 2,1,4,5,3
5) Arrange the following sentences in a LOGICAL sequence:
[XAT 2022]
1. But when it comes to companies that lack computer programmers, the government is far more sympathetic.
2. As a result, limited access to foreign talent is a common gripe of tech founders and venture capitalists.
3. And, demand for the latter has soared among British startups.
4. This is less inconsistent than it may seem.
5. An HGV driver takes between six and ten weeks to train; a competent coder several years.
(1) 1,4,5,3,2
(2) 3,5,4,2,1
(3) 3,5,1,2,4
(4) 1,2,5,3,4
(5) 3,4,2,1,5
6) Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
[XAT 2023]
1. I’m not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity.
2. In the almost half century that I’ve immersed myself in computer and related technologies, I’ve sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have witnessed at many levels.
3. Gradually, I’ve become aware of a transforming event looming in the first half of the twenty first century.
4. I’d have to say it was a progressive awakening.
5. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality.
(A) 3, 1, 4, 2, 5
(B) 1, 3, 4, 5, 2
(C) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(D) 4, 1, 2, 3, 5
(E) 4, 3, 1, 5, 2
7) Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
[XAT 2023]
1. Our knowledge about life developed over the centuries thanks to the many philosophers, physicists, chemists and biologists, who examined such complex matters according to their different points of view.
2. Out of this long history, I wish to quote here only one date, the year 1953.
3. In that year, Miller and Urey carried out their famous experiment about the primordial universal soup, whose foundations had already been expounded by the Russian chemist Alexandre Oparin in 1924.
4. From a mixture of five gases, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and water vapor, and an electric discharge as the source of energy, complex molecules were produced, including amino acids.
(A) 1, 4, 2, 3
(B) 1, 3, 4, 2
(C) 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 3, 1, 2, 4
(E) 1, 2, 3, 4
1) Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2025]
Employees complaining about mundane tasks are often ignored. There is a listlessness that settles around them. A bored employee may continue to produce good results, but that can also be because the tasks are repetitive, and the outcomes are expected.
Which of the following options can be BEST inferred from the passage?
(1) Good performance makes organizations overlook their employees’ state of mind.
(2) A bored employee must be a bad performer for the organization to take notice.
(3) Boredom is a serious problem that needs immediate attention.
(4) Mundane tasks create listlessness around good performers.
(5) Listlessness settles around good performers who are bored.
2) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2025]
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
Which of the following options can be BEST concluded from the passage?
(1) Unless we are put to test for our beliefs, we do not know what our true beliefs are.
(2) To claim to know anything we must apply it in a situation and then judge ourselves.
(3) Most of the population does not know what being bad or being good actually is.
(4) To claim to be good people, we should know what temptation means.
(5) How we label ourselves depends entirely on how much we have fought for that label.
3) Observe the cartoon below carefully and answer the question that follows.
Which of the following options BEST explains the underlying message depicted in the cartoon?
(1) Love is about caring for others even if it wears you out.
(2) Our sense of identity is based on how others interpret us.
(3) Our interpretation of others’ reality is mostly arbitrary.
(4) Our sense of duty for others can overwhelm our sense of self.
(5) Our understanding of others, based on our beliefs, may not be true.
4) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
Fear is the greatest motivator of all time. Conflict born of fear is behind our every action, driving us forward like the cogs of a clock. Fear is desire’s dark dress, its doppelgänger. “Love and dread are brothers,” says Julian of Norwich. As desire is wanting and fear is not-wanting, they become inexorably linked; just as desire can be destructive (the desire for power), fear can be constructive (fear of hurting another); fear of poverty becomes desire for wealth.
Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the paragraph?
1. A positive action generally has a foundation of fear underneath.
2. The interplay of fear and desire helps in guiding one’s action.
3. Fear is a powerful motivator that leads to extraordinary achievements.
4. While fear is perceived as negative, it can be a force for good.
5. Fear paves the way to positive transformation when paired with desire.
5) Read the following paragraphs and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
Paragraph 1:
Here are some handy rules of thumb. Anyone who calls themselves a thought leader is to be avoided. A man who does not wear socks cannot be trusted. And a company that holds an employee-appreciation day does not appreciate its employees.
Paragraph 2:
It is not just that the message sent by acknowledging staff for one out of 260-odd working days is a bit of a giveaway (there isn’t a love-your-spouse day ... for the same reason). It is also that the ideas are usually so tragically unappreciative. You have worked hard all year so you get a slice of cold pizza or a rock stamped with the words “You rock”?
Which of the following BEST describes the relationship of the first paragraph with the second paragraph?
1. The first paragraph is redundant, in the presence of the second paragraph.
2. The first paragraph is humorous, while the second paragraph is sarcastic.
3. The second paragraph gives evidence to the claims made by the first paragraph.
4. Without the second paragraph the first paragraph is meaningless.
5. The first paragraph evokes interest, the second paragraph elaborates.
6) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
How do we choose one discovery over any other? The physician Lewis Thomas made a choice. He bluntly asserts: “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.”
The science writer Timothy Ferris agrees: “Our ignorance, of course, has always been with us, and always will be. What is new is our awareness of it, our awakening to its fathomless dimensions, and it is this, more than anything else, that marks the coming of age of our species.”
It is an odd, unsettling thought that the culmination of our greatest century of discovery should be the confirmation of our ignorance. How did such a thing come about?
Which of the following statements can be BEST concluded from the above passage?
1. Humans know more when they know they know very little.
2. Humans became scientists when they realized that they were ignorant.
3. Humans progressed because they knew that they knew very little.
4. The realization that humans are ignorant led them to invent new things.
5. That they do not know enough make humans seek to know more.
7) Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.
Based on the above information, which of the following statements MUST be true?
1. If she wants to master knowledge, she must reflect on the information.
2. If she reflects on the information, she will master the knowledge.
3. If she has not mastered knowledge, she must have not reflected on information.
4. If she has mastered the knowledge, she might have reflected on the information.
5. If she is a master of knowledge, it is because she is a reflector of information.
8) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2024]
That’s how life plays out for all of us. We lose some. Like sportspersons, we too pack our gear and go to work. But unlike them, the gaze of the world is not upon us. Most of us do our business in anonymity, very few of us are emotionally wired to the outcomes of our day jobs. We don’t come back feeling like winners. Or losers. As sports fans we can summon empathy for those who stretch their bodies and minds to the limit in the pursuit of athletic excellence and provide such joys in the process.
But we will never experience the highs that are their reward. And we will never know the depth of their lows, which are their burden.
Still, no one will know better than Rohit and Dravid that its already a new day. There might never be a World Cup win for them. But there are loved ones to go to. Life awaits still.
Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the above passage?
1. Life moves on, and as sports fans, we should do too.
2. The wins and loss in sports do not exist in other professions.
3. We should treat winning and losing as imposters.
4. Just because we enjoy sports does not mean we understand the sportspersons.
5. We should put ourselves in others shoes rather than judge them for performance.
9) Read the following excerpt carefully.
[XAT 2023]
In the future, hydrogen may form a significant part of our energy systems. Today it is mostly used in oil refineries and fertiliser but in the future hydrogen could power our cars, heat our homes, and fuel industry. A recent McKinsey study suggested that in less than 25 years, hydrogen could account for 18% of global energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from current levels by some 6 gigatons. . . .
Which of the following sentences will MOST logically complete the above excerpt?
A. The impact of such a change in the energy system would be huge, potentially generating 2,500 billion in revenue globally and creating more than 30 million jobs.
B. Despite the potential, 90% of the general population knew nothing about hydrogen technology.
C. Earlier, experts thought that hydrogen fuel would be too expensive.
D. Hydrogen can be made through reformation, electrolysis, or pyrolysis, comes labelled in different colours from simple green to more complicated turquoise, can be stored as a gas, cryogenic liquid, converted to ammonia or even borane and then finally made useful through a fuel cell, engine, or burner.
E. Germany unsuccessfully experimented with trains fuelled by hydrogen.
10) Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
[XAT 2023]
More people signed up for Harvard’s online courses in a year, for example, than have attended the university in its 377 years of existence. In the same spirit, there are more unique visits each month to the WebMD network, a collection of health websites, than to all the doctors working in the United States. In the legal world, three times as many disagreements each year amongst eBay traders are resolved using ‘online dispute resolution’ than there are lawsuits filed in the entire US court system. On its sixth birthday, the Huffington Post had more unique monthly visitors than the website of the New York Times, which is almost 164 years of age. The British tax authorities use a fraud-detection system that holds more data than the British Library (which has copies of every book ever published in the UK). In 2014, the US tax authorities received electronic tax returns from almost 48 million people who had used online tax preparation software rather than a tax professional to help them. The architectural firm Gramazio & Kohler used a group of autonomous flying robots to assemble a structure out of 1500 bricks. The consulting firm Accenture has 750 hospital nurses on its staff, while Deloitte, founded as an audit practice 170 years ago, now has over 200,000 professionals and its own full-scale corporate university set in a 700,000-square-foot campus in Texas.
The author of the above paragraph is trying to conclude something by citing different pieces of evidence. What could the author be trying to prove?
A. What old firms can do to survive.
B. How professionals are getting replaced by technology.
C. How new organizational forms are emerging.
D. How old firms are dying.
E. How automation is taking away jobs traditionally done by humans.
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