CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. Some sources, such as anthropologists James Mellaart, Marija Gimbutas and Barbara Walker, claim that Gaia as the Mother Earth is a later form of a pre-Indo-European Great Mother who had been venerated in Neolithic times, but this point is controversial in the academic community. Belief in a nurturing Earth Mother is often a feature of modern Neopagan "Goddess" worship, which is typically linked by practitioners of this religion to the Neolithic goddess theory.
From the above passage, we can conclude that:
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | Gaia's status as the Mother Earth was debated among ancient Greek historians. | | | 2) | The academic community doesn't believe that a nurturing Great Mother belongs to Ancient Greece as she originated in Neolithic times. | | | 3) | The concept of Gaia arguably originated from a pre-Indo-European Great Mother. | | | 4) | James Mellaart, Marija Gimbutas and Barbara Walker are anthropologists of questionable judgment. | | | 5) | The Neopagans are the first people to believe in the Earth Mother theory. |
Tip of the Day Don't give up on the habit of reading editorial pages, and other material in the last few days before CAT. Continual depth and breadth of reading is what will hold you in good stead during the exam. Last year's Question of the day (14-Jun-11) It is often suggested that there must be something inherently beautiful or logical about the structure of English, in order to explain why it is now so widely used. 'It has less grammar than other languages', some have suggested. 'English doesn't have a lot of endings on its words, nor do we have to remember the difference between masculine, feminine and neuter gender, so it must be easier to learn'. Which of the following does not weaken the explanations for the wide usage of English mentioned in this passage? | OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | No natural language is particularly 'logical', and English has plenty of illogical quirks of its own. | | | 2) | English has other grammatical features that make it harder to learn than many other languages. | | | 3) | The widespread usage of any language – including English – has more to do with sociological, economical, political and historical reasons, than the inherent properties of that language. | | | 4) | In the past, there have been other languages that were just as widespread as English is now, even though they had a lot of endings in their words, or multiple genders. | | | 5) | English is not as popular as may appear at first glance – for example, it has only the third highest number of speakers of any language in the world. |
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