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Daily Free Tests and Live Workshops for CAT Exam | Day 4: Reading Comprehension

In this video, Shashank Prabhu, CAT 100 percentiler discusses 3 Reading Comprehension passages from past CAT papers. As a part of the Daily Drill, there will be daily free tests and live workshops for the CAT exam. You may register for the daily free tests using this link: https://point99.learnyst.com/learn/Da... The entire series playlist can be accessed here:    • Daily Drill for CAT 24   In this video, we looked at the following RC passages from CAT 2017: Passage 1: This year alone, more than 8,600 stores could close, according to industry estimates, many of them the brand -name anchor outlets that real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court. Already there have been 5,300 retail closings this year... Sears Holdings—which owns Kmart—said in March that there's "substantial doubt" it can stay in business altogether, and will close 300 stores this year. So far this year, nine national retail chains have filed for bankruptcy. Local jobs are a major casualty of what analysts are calling, with only a hint of hyperbole, the retail apocalypse. Since 2002, department stores have lost 448,000 jobs, a 25% decline, while the number of store closures this year is on pace to surpass the worst depths of the Great Recession. The growth of online retailers, meanwhile, has failed to offset those losses, with the ecommerce sector adding just 178,000 jobs over the past 15 years. Some of those jobs can be found in the massive distribution centers Amazon has opened across the country, often not too far from malls the company helped shutter. Questions: 1. The central idea of this passage is that: 2. Why does the author say in paragraph 2, 'the massive distribution centers Amazon has opened across the country, often not too far from malls the company helped shutter'? 3. In paragraph 1, the phrase "real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court" suggests that they 4. The author calls the mall an ecosystem unto itself because 5. Why does the author say that the mall has been America's public square? 6. The author describes 'Perfume clouds in the department stores' in order to Passage 2: Scientists have long recognised the incredible diversity within a species. But they thought it reflected evolutionary changes that unfolded imperceptibly, over millions of years. That divergence between populations within a species was enforced, according to Ernst Mayr, the great evolutionary biologist of the 1940s, when a population was separated from the rest of the species by a mountain range or a desert, preventing breeding across the divide over geologic scales of time. Without the separation, gene flow was relentless. But as the separation persisted, the isolated population grew apart and speciation occurred. In the mid-1960s, the biologist Paul Ehrlich - author of The Population Bomb (1968) - and his Stanford University colleague Peter Raven challenged Mayr's ideas about speciation. They had studied checkerspot butterflies living in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in California, and it soon became clear that they were not examining a single population. Through years of capturing, marking and then recapturing the butterflies, they were able to prove that within the population, spread over just 50 acres of suitable checkerspot habitat, there were three groups that rarely interacted despite their very close proximity. Questions: 1. Which of the following best sums up Ehrlich and Raven's argument in their classic 1969 paper? 2. All of the following statements are true according to the passage EXCEPT 3. The author discusses Mayr, Ehrlich and Raven to demonstrate that Passage 3: Do sports mega events like the summer Olympic Games benefit the host city economically? It depends, but the prospects are less than rosy. The trick is converting...several billion dollars in operating costs during the 17-day fiesta of the Games into a basis for long-term economic returns. These days, the summer Olympic Games themselves generate total revenue of $4 billion to $5 billion, but the lion's share of this goes to the International Olympics Committee, the National Olympics Committees and the International Sports Federations. Any economic benefit would have to flow from the value of the Games as an advertisement for the city, the new transportation and communications infrastructure that was created for the Games, or the ongoing use of the new facilities. 1. The central point in the first paragraph is that the economic benefits of the Olympic Games 2. Sports facilities built for the Olympics are not fully utilised after the Games are over because 3. The author feels that the Games place a burden on the host city for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that In this series we will cover CAT level questions on a daily basis and discuss the solutions over a YouTube live session.