CAT Question of the Day From among the options, choose the summary of the passage that is written in the same style as that of the passage
Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other's way. Which way do you step? The answer is almost certainly to the right. Replay the same scene in many parts of Asia, however, and you would probably move to the left. It is not obvious why. There is no instruction to head in a specific direction. There is no simple correlation with the side of the road on which people drive: Londoners funnel to the right on pavements, for example. Instead, this is a behaviour brought about by probabilities. If two opposing people guess each other's intentions correctly, each moving to one side and allowing the other past, then they are likely to choose to move the same way the next time they need to avoid a collision. The probability of a successful manoeuvre increases as more and more people adopt a bias in one direction, until the tendency sticks. Whether it's right or left does not matter; what does is that it is the unspoken will of the majority.
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | Pedestrians in France would step to the right and Asians to the left to avoid collision with others depending on the side on which one is expected to drive. | | | 2) | The specific direction in which one turns in order to avoid collisions depends on the bias that people adopt based on the history of past successful manoeuvres. | | | 3) | Pedestrians' ability to avoid collision with each other by turning to the left or right is based on past successful manoeuvres forming a bias in more and more people of a society. | | | 4) | The reason for pedestrian avoiding collision with other pedestrians by stepping to the right or left is not obvious and may have to do with the side a society is expected to drive. |
Tip of the Day The formula for calculating permutations is used when the order of the selected items matters while that of combinations is used when only the number of selected items matters, they may be selected in any random order. Last year's Question of the day (15-Apr-11) On the same day, Ben Ali fled the country for Malta under Libyan protection and landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after France rejected a request for the plane to land on its territory. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi then briefly took over as acting president. Saudi Arabia cited "exceptional circumstances" for their heavily criticised decision to give him asylum saying it was also "in support of the security and stability of their country." The Saudi decision was "not out of sympathy" for Ben Ali (who had long fought against Islamists in Tunisia). Saudi Arabia demanded Ben Ali remain "out of politics" as a condition for accepting him. On the morning of January 15, Tunisian state TV announced that Ben Ali had officially resigned his position and Ghannouchi had handed power over to parliamentary speaker Fouad Mebazaa.
Which of the following summarises the passage most effectively?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Ben Ali fled Tunisia and found asylum in Saudi Arabia for which the country was heavily criticized. It defended its decision by saying that it was motivated not by sympathy, but by the desire for stability of the country; also that Ali can't remain in politics were he to stay. | | | 2) | Ben Ali fled Malta and found asylum in Saudi Arabia for which the country was heavily criticized. It defended its decision by saying that it was motivated not by sympathy, but for stability of their country; also that Ali can't remain in politics were he to stay. | | | 3) | Ben Ali fled his home country and sought asylum in Malta, but the French wouldn't let him land on its territory. Thus he went to Saudi Arabia. Ghannouchi took over as acting president, and then passed on power to parliamentary speaker Fouad Mebazaa. | | | 4) | Ben Ali fled his home country and sought asylum in Malta, but the French wouldn't let him land on its territory. Thus he went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. | | | 5) | Ben Ali sought asylum in Saudi Arabia, as Tunisia was first taken over by Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi and the later parliamentary speaker Fouad Mebazaa. |
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