1.  
So how big is the potential market?
A.   But he ends up spending thousands
more each year on hardware upgrades and software overhauls.
B.   Analysts say the new machines will
appeal primarily to corporate users.
C.   An individual buyer can pick up a
desktop computer for less than $2000 in America.
D.   For them, the NCs' best drawing
card is its promise of much lower maintenance costs.
6.   NCs, which automatically load the
latest version of whatever software they need, could put an end all.

(CAT 1996)

A.   It begins with an ordinary fever and a
moderate cough.
B.   India could be under attack from a
class of germs that cause what are called atypical pneumonias.
C.   Slowly, a sore throat progresses to
bronchitis and then pneumonia and respiratory complications.
D.   It appears like the ordinary flu,
but baffled doctors find that the usual drugs don't work.

(CAT1997)

A.   Chemists mostly don't stock it only a few
government hospitals do but in limited quantities.
B.   Delhi's building boom is creating a
bizarre problem: snakes are increasingly biting people as they emerge from
their disturbed underground homes.
C.   There isn't enough anti-snake
serum, largely because there is no centralized agency that distributes the
product.
D.   If things don't improve, more
people could face paralysis, and even death

(CAT1997)

A.   Good advertising can make people buy your
products even if it is a fiasco.
B.   A dollar spent on brainwashing is
more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
C.   That's important because it takes
pressure off you to make good products.
D.   Obviously, there's a minimum
quality that every product has to achieve:    
it should be able to withstand the shipping process without becoming unrecognizable

(CAT 1997)

A.   After several routine elections there comes
a 'critical' election which redefines the basic pattern of political
loyalties, redraws political geography and opens up the frozen political
space.
B.   In psychological jargon they call
it realignment.
C.   Rather, since 1989, there have been
a series of semi-critical elections.
D.   On a strict definition, none of the
recent Indian elections qualifies as a critical election.

(CAT 1997)

A.   But the last decade has witnessed greater
voting and political participation by various privileged sections.
B.   If one goes by the earlier record
of mid-term elections, it is likely that the turnout in 1998 will drop by
anything between four and six percentage points over the already low polling
of 58 percent in 1996.
C.   If this trend offsets the mid-term
poll fatigue; the fall may not be so steep.
D.   Notwithstanding a good deal of
speculation on this issue, it is still not clear as to who benefits from a
lower turnout

(CAT1997)

A.   Trivial pursuits, marketed by the Congress,
is a game imported from Italy.
B.   The idea is to create an imaginary
savior in times of crisis so that the party doesn't fall flat on its
collective face.
C.   Closest contenders are Mani Shankar
Aiyar, Who still hears his master's
voice, and V, Geoge, who is frustrated by the fact that his political future
remains Sonia and yet so far.
D.   The current champion is Arjun Singh
for whom all roads lead to Rome, or in this case, 10 Janpath.

(CAT 1997)

A.   But, clearly, the government still has the
final say.  
B.   In the past few years, the Reserve Bank
of India might have wrested considerable powers from the government when it
comes to monetary policy.
C.   The RBI's announcements on certain
issues become effective only after the government notifies them.
D.   Isn't it time the government vested
the RBI with powers to sanction such changes, leaving their ratification for
later?

(CAT 1997)

1.   The problem of improving Indian agriculture
is both a sociological and an administrative one.
A.   It also appears that there is a
direct relationship between the size of a state and development.
B.   The issues of Indian development,
and the problems of India's agricultural sector, will remain with us long
into the next century.
C.   Without improving Indian
agriculture, no liberalization and delicensing will be able to help India.
D.   At the end of the day, there has to
be a ferment and movement of life and action in the vast segment of rural
India.
6.   When it starts marching, India will
fly

(CAT 1998)

A.   Perhaps the best known is the Bay Area
Writing Project, founded by James gray in 1974.
B.   The decline in writing skills can
be stopped.
C.   Today's back-to-basics movement has
already forced some schools to place renewed emphasis on the three Rs.
D.   Although the inability of some
teachers to teach writing successfully remains a big stumbling block, a
number of programmes have been developed to attack this problem

(CAT 1997)