NinetynineCAT 2018 Slot 1 VARC Q34 Para Jumbles
Question 34 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2018 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
1. Translators are like bumblebees.
2. Though long since scientifically disproved, this factoid is still routinely trotted out.
3. Similar pronouncements about the impossibility of translation have dogged practitioners since Leonardo Bruni’s De interpretatione recta, published in 1424.
4. Bees, unaware of these deliberations, have continued to flit from flower to flower, and translators continue to translate.
5. In 1934, the French entomologist August Magnan pronounced the flight of the bumblebee to be aerodynamically impossible
2. Though long since scientifically disproved, this factoid is still routinely trotted out.
3. Similar pronouncements about the impossibility of translation have dogged practitioners since Leonardo Bruni’s De interpretatione recta, published in 1424.
4. Bees, unaware of these deliberations, have continued to flit from flower to flower, and translators continue to translate.
5. In 1934, the French entomologist August Magnan pronounced the flight of the bumblebee to be aerodynamically impossible
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- Sentence 1 sets up the analogy: translators are like bumblebees.
- Sentence 5 gives the bee side: in 1934 Magnan declared bumblebee flight aerodynamically impossible. Sentence 3 gives the translator side ('Similar pronouncements about the impossibility of translation ...'). Sentence 4 resolves both: bees keep flying and translators keep translating.
- So 1-5-3-4 builds the parallel of 'declared impossible, yet done anyway'.
- Sentence 2 is an aside about the factoid still being repeated after it was disproved. That is a point about the persistence of myths, not part of the parallel, and it sits awkwardly between 5 and 3's 'Similar pronouncements'. So 2 is the odd one out.