CAT Question of the Day The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the options. - The new wax scales are initially glass-clear and colourless, becoming opaque after mastication by the worker bee.
- Beeswax is produced by young worker bees between 12 and 17 days old in the form of thin scales secreted by glands on the ventral surface of the abdomen.
- The size of these wax glands depends on the age of the worker and after daily flights begin these glands gradually atrophy.
- The wax of honeycomb is nearly white, but becomes progressively more yellow or brown by incorporation of pollen oils and propolis.
- Worker bees have eight wax-producing mirror glands on the inner sides of the sternites (the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body) on abdominal segments 4 to 7.
| OPTIONS | | |  | 2) | BCEDA | | | 3) | BEADC | | | 4) | EBCDA | | | 5) | BECAD |
Tip of the Day Angles subtended by an arc or a chord of a circle, at distinct points on its circumference, in the same segment, are equal. Also, the measure of this angle is half the measure of the angle subtended by the chord or arc at the centre. Last year's Question of the day (26-Mar-11) In Genesis 30, Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah, finds mandrakes in a field. Rachel, Jacob's infertile second wife and Leah's sister, is desirous of the mandrakes and barters with Leah for them. The trade offered by Rachel is for Leah to spend the next night in Jacob's bed in exchange for Leah's mandrakes. Leah gives away the plant to her barren sister, but soon after this (Genesis 30:14-22), Leah, who had previously had four sons but had been infertile for a long while, became pregnant once more and in time gave birth to two more sons, Issachar and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah. Only years after this episode of her asking for the mandrakes did Rachel manage to get pregnant. There are classical Jewish commentaries which suggest that mandrakes help barren women to conceive a child. Although she ate the mandrakes, it states in the Old Testament that Jehovah brought it about that Rachel should have a child.
What of the following can be deduced from the passage?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Rachel is a sweet and caring sister, who wants her infertile sister Leah to get pregnant and experience the blessing of a child. | | | 2) | Rachel is jealous and slanderous, who wants to malign her sister by asking her to do the unthinkable. | | | 3) | Rachel is a classical Jewish commentator who with divine help conceived a child. | | | 4) | Rachel is a lady whose desires know no bounds - she can sacrifice her closest relationships to fulfill her sister's deepest desires. | | | 5) | Rachel as a woman is desirous of being a mother and all that she wants is a child to call her own. |
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