CAT4MBA

Fill in the blanks with one of the choices provided below.
Q1. Brian's pale Irish skin was ______ to burn if he spent too much time in the sun.
a. prone   b.urbane  c.eminent  d. erect

Q2.  The movie offended many of the parents of its younger viewers by including unnecessary ______ in the dialogue.
a. vulgarity  b. verbosity    c.vocalizations  d.garishness

Q3 ______ : bedrock :: cement : foundation
a. mica  b. water   c. lava       d. sand

Q4 Which of these words is closest in meaning to the word provided?
saccharine
a.leave       b. sweet      c. arid        d. quit

Q5 His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him to backyard barbeques.
a. insentient   b. magisterial     c. reparatory   d. restorative

6. ____ a business is all about proper decision making.
a. Finishing b. Catching c. Running d. Laundering

7. Any business calls for two ____ functions.
a. critical b. rudimentary c. innate d. None of these

8. Buying and selling, they would say. However, great businesses ____ another important function.
a. comprise b. consist of c. collect d. entail

9. Establishing relationships. Can you or can you not ____ a relation with all the stakeholders, is what is critical.
a. propagate b. motivate c. cultivate d. instigate

10. The best business managers ____ that business is 90 per cent relations and 10 per cent perspiration.
a. compound b. predict c. propound d. None of these

11. There have been many instances of great business empires that have been ____ by bad management.
a. ruined b. saved c. created d. toppled

12. Dhirubhai Ambani called his company Reliance, since Reliance stood for trust and hence the ____ of
success.
a. cornerstone b. pitfall c. preamble d. meaning

13. Trust takes a lifetime to generate and only one mistake to ____.
a. forget b. squander c. Both (a) and (b) d. vanish

14. Incidents like Enron, Arthur Anderson and WorldCom will ____ the people who have lost their money and
jobs for the rest of their lives.
a. chase b. suffer c. threaten d. haunt

15. Any business is not without a face. It only matters whether the face is ____ or intimidating.
a. intimate b. intimating c. intimation d. None of these