CMAT 2013 Solved Question Paper

Language Comprehension

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-10)
The following questions contains a passage followed by a question. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Question : 60 of 100

Marks: +1, -0

\;\;\;\;\;\;\bo\Passage 10

Nuclear reactors are sometimes built in geologically quiet’ regions, so called by geologists because such regions are distant from plate boundaries and contain only minor faults. Since no minor fault in a geologically quiet region produces an earthquake more often than once in any given 1OOOOO year period, it follows that of all potential nuclear reactor sites in such a region, those that are least likely to be struck by an earthquake are ones located near a fault that has produced an earthquake within living memory.

Q. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

Geologically quiet regions are the least dangerous regions to build nuclear reactors
For any potential nuclear reactor site the likelihood of being struck by an earthquake is the primary determinant of site safety
In a geologically quiet region every potential nuclear reactor site is near at least one minor fault
Nuclear reactors that are located in a geologically quilt regions are built to withstand at least one but not neceesar if more than one earthquake of minor to moderate force

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