CAT 2025 Parajumbles: Essential Practice Questions

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Question

1

Arrange:

1. Contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.
2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.
3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.
4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.

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2

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1. Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the University of New South Wales, believes there is a new way of solving this problem.
2. Her vision is for automated drones and robots to pick out components, put them into a small furnace and smelt them at specific temperatures to extract the metals one by one before they are sent off to manufacturers for reuse.
3. E-waste contains huge quantities of valuable metals, ceramics and plastics that could be salvaged and recycled, although currently not enough of it is.
4. She plans to build microfactories that can tease apart the tangle of materials in mobile phones, computers and other e-waste. 3412

3

Arrange:

1. The package arrived two days early.
2. She had been worried it would come late.
3. Relief washed over her.

4

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1. Women may prioritize cooking because they feel they alone are responsible for mediating a toxic and unhealthy food system.
2. Food is commonly framed through the lens of individual choice: you can choose to eat healthily.
3. This is particularly so in a neoliberal context where the state has transferred the responsibility for food onto individual consumers.
4. The individualized framing of choice appeals to a popular desire to experience agency, but draws away from the structural obstacles that stratify individual food choices. 2431

5

Arrange:

1. He learned that setbacks often offered hidden lessons.
2. After the collapse of his first startup, he took time off.
3. Rather than rushing into another venture, he read widely and taught himself finance.
4. When he finally launched again, the new company was more resilient.

6

Arrange:

1. The village pond had once been the centre of their festivals.
2. Decades of neglect had turned it into a weed-choked marsh.
3. A local NGO organised a clean-up and trained volunteers.
4. Children now swim there again during summer.
5. The mayor, impressed, promised municipal support.

7

Arrange:

1. Her research combined archival work with oral histories.
2. She discovered patterns that surprised even seasoned scholars.
3. For years, the archive had lain uncatalogued in a basement.
4. Interviewing elderly residents provided color and contradiction to the records.
5. The paper she published shifted the debate on local governance.

Question Number

Question

1

4312

2

3412

3

213

4

2431

5

2314

6

12354

7

31425