CAT Question of the Day In each of the following sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative among them.
Food insecurity can get acute in urban settings, particularly when prices spiral up, as the poor have limited purchasing power and there is no home-grown food to fall back on. With migration from rural to urban areas set to rise further, and most of it in an unplanned manner, the problem would only exacerbate in the years ahead if government response does not see a dramatic change. Making the situation worse is the appalling and unhygienic conditions in which the urban poor live, with limited access to safe drinking water and clean toilets — all of which tells on the health of the urban poor. ______________.
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | Policy failure in managing food security must not be allowed to occur. | | | 2) | But the governments at the Centre and states are yet to address it as a holistic programme | | | 3) | What's required of policymakers is to create convergence between programmes for improving living conditions. | | | 4) | Food security, as commonly understood, is not just about people having enough to eat. |
Tip of the Day Make it a point to be abreast of current affairs while preparing for GD/PI – read one daily newspaper with the business section, and if possible a business newspaper as well. Last year's Question of the day (08-Jan-12) In 1940, Pilecki presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp at Oświęcim (the Polish name of the locality), gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance. Until then, little had been known about the Germans' running of the camp, and it was thought to be an internment camp or large prison rather than a death camp. His superiors approved the plan and provided him a false identity card in the name of "Tomasz Serafiński." On September 19, 1940, he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup (łapanka), and was caught by the Germans along with some 2,000 innocent civilians (among them, Władysław Bartoszewski). After two days of torture in Wehrmacht barracks, he was sent to Auschwitz. Pilecki was tattooed on his forearm with the number 4859.
What do we learn about Pilecki from the passage?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Pilecki was a traitor to his own homeland and was thus part of a dissenting force. | | | 2) | Pilecki was a very brave man. He was willing to undergo torture just to convince the Allies that the holocaust was actually underway. | | | 3) | Pilecki was willing to go to any lengths to gain access to the death camp in Auschwitz. | | | 4) | Pilecki was a brave man who was willing to undergo torture to bring to gather intelligence for his government. | | | 5) | Pilecki was a revolutionary in terms of the resistance movement he started. |
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