CTS - Reasoning - 3

CTS – Reasoning - 3

Directions for Questions 1-5:  (Identify the correct sentence in the following)

1.  A) The boy regretted that he had spend a greater part of his vacation in the chair with a plastered leg.

     B) With a plastered leg, the boy regretted that he had spent a greater part of his vacation in the chair

     C) The boy regretted that a plastered leg he had spent a greater part of his vacation in the chair.

     D) The boy with a plastered leg regretted that he had spent a greater part of his vacation in the chair.

     Ans: (D)

2.  A) If You will pay heed to the small details, the general plans will surely succeed.

      B) If you pay heed to the small details, the general plans will surely succeed.

      C) If you would heed the small details, the general plans would have succeed.

      D) If you heeded to the small details, the general plans would surely succeed.

      Ans: (B)

3.   A) It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking in the sunshine on a river bank as long as 90 feet.

      B) It is a pleasure to see an alligator as long as 90 feet basking in the sunshine on a river bank

      C) It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking in the sunshine as long as 90 feet  on a river bank

      D) It is a pleasure to see an alligator basking as long as 90 feet in the sunshine on a river bank.

      Ans: (B)

4.   A) There will be a meeting in the long room at 4 o'clock of all the boys who play cricket and football.

      B) There will be a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football in the long room at 4 o'clock.

      C) There will be in the long room at 4 o'clock a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football

      D) In the long room at 4 o'clock there will be a meeting of all the boys who play cricket and football.

      Ans: (D)

5.  A) We had in this village, some twenty years ago, an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who from a         child showed strong propensity for bees. 

     B) Some twenty years ago, we had an idiot boy in this village, who from a child showed strong propensity for bees, whom I well remember.

     C) We had an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who from a child showed strong propensity for bees, in this village some twenty years ago.

     D) In this village, we had an idiot boy some twenty years ago, who from a child showed strong propensity for bees, whom I well remember.

     Ans: (A)

Directions for Questions 6-9:

In each questions below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.
Give answer

(A) If only conclusion I follows;

(B) If only conclusion II follows;

(C) If either I or II follows;

(D) If neither I nor II follows and

(E) If both I and II follow.

6.   Statements:  Most clocks are fans.  Some fans are walls.

       Conclusions:

       I. Some walls are fans        II. Some clocks are walls

       Ans: (D)

7.   Statements:  All birds are dogs.  Some dogs are cats.

      Conclusions:

      I. Some cats are not dogs               II. All dogs are not birds

      Ans: (D)

8.   Statements:    Some fools are intelligent.   Some intelligent are great.

      Conclusions:

      I. Some fools are great          II. All great are intelligent.

      Ans: (D)

9.  Statements:    All Men are married.  Some men are educated.

     Conclusions:

     I. Some married are educated       II. Some educated are married.

     Ans: (E)

Directions for Questions 10-11:

In each questions below are given two statements followed by conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

10.  Statements:    All bags are chalks.     All chalks are bottles.

        Conclusions: 

I.                    Some bottles are bags. 

II.                  All bags are bottles  

III.                All bottles are bags 

IV.                Some chalks are not bags

        A) Only I , II and IV follow    

        B) Only I , III and IV follow. 

        C) Only II, III and IV follow.    

        D)   All Follow   

        E)  none of these

        Ans: (A)

11.  Statements:      Some trees are buses.       All buses are hats

        Conclusions:

I.                    Some trees are hats   

II.                  Some hats are trees         

III.                All hats are buses   

IV.                Some buses are hats 

       A)  None follow s                    

       B)  Only I, II and IV follow. 

       C)  Only II , III and IV follow.   

       D)  All Follow       

       E)  None of these

      Ans: (B)

Directions for Questions (12-20):

In each of the following questions one word is different from the rest. Find out the word which does not belong to the group

12.          A ) Yokel             B) Upshot            C) Lout                  D) Bumpkin

Ans: (B)

13.            A) Sofa               B) Bed                   C) Diwan              D) Chair                E) Table

Ans: (B)

14.          A) Keraunophobia          B) Tonitrophobia             C) Phonophobia               D) Astraphobia

Ans: (C)

(A, B and D relate to fear of Thunder and Lightning while C relates to fear of Sound)

15.          A) HB                     B) ZU                     C) NI                      D) TO                    E) PK

Ans: (A)

16.          A) Printer            B) Author            C) Publisher        D) Correspondent           E) Reader

Ans: (E)

17.          A) EQL                   B) BHF                   C) KTI                    D) SXD                  E) JWM

Ans: (D)

(The sum of the position of the first and the last letter in the Alphabet gives the position of the middle letter)

18.          A) Curd                                 B) Butter              C) Oil                     D) cream

Ans: (C)

19.          A) Poland            B) Greece            C) Spain                D) Korea

Ans : (D)

20.          A) Copper           B) Tin                     C) Brass                D) ZInc

Ans: (C)

21. Mr. A,   Miss B,   Mr. C and Miss D are sitting around a table and discussing their trades.

1. Mr. A sits opposite to cook      2. Miss B sits right to the barber.

3. The washer man is on the left of the tailor.  4. Miss D sits opposite to Mr. C.

What are the trades of A and B?
A) Tailor and Barber            B) Tailor and cook     C) Barber  and cook     D)  Washer man and cook

Ans: (B)

22.  In a pile of 10 books, there are 3 of History, 3 of Hindi, 2 of mathematics and 2 of English. Taking from above, there is an English book between a history and mathematics book, a history book between Mathematics and an English book, a Hindi book between English and a Mathematics book, a Mathematics book between two Hindi books and two Hindi books between a Mathematic and a History book. Book of which subject is at the sixth position from top?      

A. English     B. Hindi    B. Mathematics         C. History
Ans: (B)

23.  On a man's tombstone, it is said that one sixth of his life was spent in childhood and one twelfth as a teenager. One seventh of his life passed between the time he became an adult and the time he married; five years later, his son was born. Alas, the son died four years before he did. He lived to be twice as old as his son did. How old did the man live to be?

Ans: 84 years (It’s an old puzzle repeated many times in various placement papers)

24.  What two numbers have a product of 48 and, when the larger number is divided by the smaller, a quotient of 3?

Ans: 4 and 12 (A similar question had appeared in the TCS placement paper also)

25.  A drove of sheep and chickens have a total of 99 heads and feet. There are twice as many chickens as sheep. How many of each is there?

Ans: Nine sheep and eighteen chickens

(Similar question comprising of two wheelers and four wheelers had appeared in TCS placement paper)