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.
A vast archive of tobacco-industry documents shows that, as early as the 1940s, the tobacco industry had evidence suggesting that smoking causes cancer. In 1953, however, a meeting of the chief executives of major American tobacco companies took a joint decision to deny that cigarettes are harmful. Moreover, once the scientific evidence that smoking causes cancer became public, the industry tried to create the impression that the science was inconclusive, in much the same way that those who deny that human activities are causing climate change deliberately distort the science today. | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | Though evidence was available as early as the 1940s that smoking caused cancer, the American tobacco industry had denied it even by suggesting that science was inconclusive. | | | 2) | Much like the denial of the relationship between human activities and climate change, tobacco industry has historically denied science and evidence to safeguard their interests. | | | 3) | In the 1940s and 50s major tobacco companies in America decided to deny the link between tobacco and cancer in the same way that detractors of climate change do. | | | 4) | Confronted by scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer, tobacco industry, in 1953, decided to deny evidence and science to safeguard their interests. |
Tip of the Day In fill-in-the-blank questions, you can rule out options that result in grammatically incorrect sentences. Further, the correct option will match the style and tone of the sentence, and can be detected on the basis of this. Last year's Question of the day (17-May-11) The pagan Franks, from whom the ancient name of "Francie" was derived, originally settled the North-East of Gaul, but conquered most of northern and central Gaul, under Clovis I. The Frankish King Clovis I was the first Germanic conquerors after the fall of the Roman Empire to convert, in 498, to Catholic Christianity, rather than Arianism; thus France obtained the title "Eldest daughter of the Church" (La fille aînée de l'Église) from the papacy, and the French kings would adopt this as justification for calling their country "the Most Christian Kingdom of France", until the French Revolution. The Franks embraced the Christian Gallo-Roman heritage, and ancient Gaul was progressively renamed Francia ("Land of the Franks"). The Germanic Franks adopted Romanic languages, except in northern Gaul where Roman settlements were less dense and where Germanic languages emerged.
Which of the following didn't eventually lead to France being called the "Most Christian Kingdom of France"?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Frankish King Clovis I was originally a pagan. | | | 2) | The Frankish King Clovis I preferred Catholic Christianity to Arianism. | | | 3) | The papacy called France "La fille aînée de l'Église". | | | 4) | The French Revolution was instrumental in the end of the Catholic Christianity in France. |
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