CAT 2021 Reading Comprehension — Previous Year Question

Year

CAT 2021

Section

Topic

Difficulty

Question

Slot-1

Passage:

Few doctor have any time for the study of philosophy, for their profession is an exacting one, and it is all they can do to keep abreast of its advances. What is true of Medical Science is also true of the whole civilized world. Men at present are so engrossed in their various occupations, in manufacturing goods, in buying and selling, in accumulating wealth or in struggling merely to maintain themselves that they have no time left to wonder what living is all about.

Question 1

The expression "it is all they can do" in the first sentence conveys the idea of all that

doctor can manage to do

philosophers say is good for man

doctors are expected to do

people today are willing to do

Question 2

The expression that "their profession is an exacting one" is the best described by which one of the following statements?

Doctors have to be very precise in their work

Medical Science is a well-defined subject

Doctors have a challenging job with hardly any spare time

Medical Science is a more exact subject than philosophy

Question 3

The author compares medical profession with various other occupation in order to show that

Doctors are much more busy than people in other occupations

Doctor had to read a great deal online people in other occupations

The study of philosophy is particularly important to doctors

People in their occupations have no more time to study philosophy than doctors have

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