Para Completion || VARC || CAT 2021 II 17 September for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best alternative out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

With the user base in hyper-growth mode and Google's massive resources at its disposal, Google Photos is pressing its advantage. It has become one of the best photo storage apps out there. The company however doesn’t want to slow down its growth so it’s working hard to make an already strong app even better. At the Google I/O developer conference today, the team announced useful new features for sharing photos and debuted its first physical goods: printed photo books. ___________________

Question 2

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best alternative out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. Mutual funds have both advantages and disadvantages compared to direct investing in individual securities. The main advantage of mutual funds is that they provide stock diversification and professional investors to manage the account. The main disadvantage is the fees/expenses charged. They are generally the most common investment vehicle for retirement plans, such as the 401(k) in the United States. _______________________

Question 3

Direction: In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

________________. As they say – the only safe investment option is the savings bank account. And even then, your money won’t earn a return. In fact, it won’t even survive the eroding effects of inflation. So you may actually lose money in a savings account in terms of purchasing power. This is the reason why it is of utmost importance that proper time be given to investment decisions. Routine check of the investment portfolio should also be made mandatory for oneself.

Question 4

Direction: In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

__________________ It will go head to head with Siri, and it will be interesting to see if it will be able to convince iPhone users to ditch Apple’s solution and opt for the one offered by Google. Additionally, the search giant now also allows any manufacturer to build Assistant into any product it is making. This will make it even more present than before in everyday life. Google plans to take a huge step towards AI learning through this.

Question 5

Direction: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best alternative out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Take a photo or point the camera on a flower and Google will tell what flower is that. Hover the camera over a restaurant and it will show you reviews and options to book a table. Scan business cards, receipts, connect to Wi-Fi, book movie tickets by pointing the camera at the posters, do it all. Google Lens will be integrated into the Google Assistant. _________________

Question 6

Direction: In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Buoyed by relentless buying by local and offshore investors, India's stock market capitalisation (M-cap) has crossed $2 trillion, making it the ninth-largest equity market globally and second, after China, in the universe of emerging markets, according to Bloomberg data.________________________________________.A runaway bull market looks at ways to endorse the euphoria on the Street. With M-cap-to-GDP at 0.88, analysts believe there is tailwind left in the Indian equity story as markets are perceived to be expensive only when this ratio exceeds 1.

Question 7

Direction: In the given question, a short passage is given with one of its segments missing. The missing part has been represented by a blank. Choose the correct alternative from the given options that can make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

The biggest improvement made by NASA in its twenty-first-century version of chain mail, developed by a team led by Raul Polit Casillas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is how it's manufactured. _________________________.This means it could be produced as needed on the space station, or on other off-Earth habitats, depending on where we travel in the coming decades.

Question 8

Direction: In the given question, a short passage is given with one of its segments missing. The missing part has been represented by a blank. Choose the correct alternative from the given options that can make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

___________ when they believe that their employer is concerned about their growth and provides avenues to reach individual career goals while fulfilling the company's mission. A career development path provides employees with an ongoing mechanism to enhance their skills and knowledge that can lead to mastery of their current jobs, promotions and transfers to new or different positions. Implementing career paths may also have a direct impact on the entire organization by improving morale, career satisfaction, motivation, productivity, and responsiveness in meeting departmental and organizational objectives.

Question 9

Direction: In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Smartphone cameras have improved beyond our expectations. From the grainy VGA cameras the early feature phones came with to the latest Dual Camera stacks that can replicate DSLR-like portrait shots with perfection, smartphone photography has evolved in leaps and bounds. But there is still that one department, where smartphones still can’t match up to the DSLRs- low light photography. But Google intends to change that. OEMs often tout low-light photography as a feature in their phone cameras, but more often than not, it’s little more than a gimmick. ______________________.

Question 10

Direction: In the following question a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple may have a quarter of a trillion dollars in cash stacked abroad. The hoard of cash is unrivalled and is more than the market value of Walmart and Procter & Gamble. Incidentally, it is even more than the foreign currency reserves of Canada and the United Kingdom combined. Around 93 percent of the money is stacked overseas in liquid assets. ____________________________. Apple CEO Tim Cook has also shown interest in bringing some of the cash back to the US if tax conditions are feasible.