PracticeRCCAT 2021 · Slot 2 · Real RC passage 2 of 4
CAT 2021 Slot 2 RC passage: Oral languages and globalisation
This is passage 2 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2021 Slot 2. It comes with 4 questions in the real exam. Below are the question stems; sign in to read the full passage and practise it with all options, the answer key and explanations.
Passage facts
- Exam
- CAT 2021
- Slot
- 2 of 3
- Position
- Passage 2 of 4
- Questions
- 4
- Passage length
- about 520 words
- Topic
- Oral languages and globalisation
Source of the passage: adapted by CAT from Mark Turin, “Globalization Helps Preserve Endangered Languages”, YaleGlobal Online. Read the original.
Questions in this set
- From the passage, we can infer that the author is in favour of:
- The author lists all of the following as reasons for the decline or disappearance of a language EXCEPT:
- The author mentions the Welsh language to show that:
- We can infer all of the following about indigenous languages from the passage EXCEPT that:
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