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CAT 2024 Slot 2 RC passage: Unintended consequences of technology

This is passage 2 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2024 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 2024
Slot
2 of 3
Position
Passage 2 of 4
Questions
4
Passage length
about 500 words
Topic
Unintended consequences of technology

Questions in this set

  1. We can assume that the author would support all of the following views EXCEPT:
  2. Carrier, Babbage, and Edison are mentioned in the passage to illustrate the author’s point that
  3. Which of the following best conveys the main point of the first paragraph?
  4. The author lists all of the following examples as “externalities” of major technical advances EXCEPT:

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