CAT 2017 Verbal and Reading Comprehension
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Direction Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
(1) Even the enormous, impregnable stupidity of our High Command on all matters of psychology was penetrated by a vague notion that a few “writing fellows” might be sent out with permission to follow the armies in the field, under the strictest censorship, in order to silence the popular clamour for more news.
(2) We want to know more about their heroism, so that it shall be remembered by their people and known by the world.
(3) Lord Kitchener, prejudiced against them, was being broken down a little by the pressure of public opinion, which demanded more news of their men in the field than was given by bald communiques.
(4) Dimly and nervously they apprehended that in order to stimulate the recruiting of the New Army now being called to the colours by vulgar appeals to sentiment and passion, it might be well to “write up” the glorious side of war as it could be seen at the base and in the organization of transport, without, of course, any allusion to dead or dying men, to the ghastly failures of distinguished generals, or to the filth and horror of the battlefields
(5) In 1915, the War Office at last moved in the matter of war correspondents.
(1) Even the enormous, impregnable stupidity of our High Command on all matters of psychology was penetrated by a vague notion that a few “writing fellows” might be sent out with permission to follow the armies in the field, under the strictest censorship, in order to silence the popular clamour for more news.
(2) We want to know more about their heroism, so that it shall be remembered by their people and known by the world.
(3) Lord Kitchener, prejudiced against them, was being broken down a little by the pressure of public opinion, which demanded more news of their men in the field than was given by bald communiques.
(4) Dimly and nervously they apprehended that in order to stimulate the recruiting of the New Army now being called to the colours by vulgar appeals to sentiment and passion, it might be well to “write up” the glorious side of war as it could be seen at the base and in the organization of transport, without, of course, any allusion to dead or dying men, to the ghastly failures of distinguished generals, or to the filth and horror of the battlefields
(5) In 1915, the War Office at last moved in the matter of war correspondents.
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