NinetynineCAT 2023 Slot 2 VARC Q23 Para Summary
Question 23 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2023 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Heatwaves are becoming longer, frequent and intense due to climate change. The impacts of extreme heat are unevenly experienced; with older people and young children, those with pre-existing medical conditions and on low incomes significantly more vulnerable. Adaptation to heatwaves is a significant public policy concern. Research conducted among at-risk people in the UK reveals that even vulnerable people do not perceive themselves as at risk of extreme heat; therefore, early warnings of extreme heat events do not perform as intended. This suggests that understanding how extreme heat is narrated is very important. The news media play a central role in this process and can help warn people about the potential danger, as well as about impacts on infrastructure and society.
Heatwaves are becoming longer, frequent and intense due to climate change. The impacts of extreme heat are unevenly experienced; with older people and young children, those with pre-existing medical conditions and on low incomes significantly more vulnerable. Adaptation to heatwaves is a significant public policy concern. Research conducted among at-risk people in the UK reveals that even vulnerable people do not perceive themselves as at risk of extreme heat; therefore, early warnings of extreme heat events do not perform as intended. This suggests that understanding how extreme heat is narrated is very important. The news media play a central role in this process and can help warn people about the potential danger, as well as about impacts on infrastructure and society.
- AProtection from heat waves is important but current reports and public policies seem ineffective.
- BHeatwaves pose an enormous risk; the media plays a pivotal role in alerting people to this danger.
- CPeople are vulnerable to heatwaves caused due to climate change, measures taken are ineffective.
- DNews stories help in warning about heatwaves, but they have to become more effective.
Answer: (B) Heatwaves pose an enormous risk; the media plays a pivotal role in alerting people to this danger. Para Summary MCQ
Solution
- Core: heatwaves are worsening and harm the vulnerable, warnings fail because people don't see themselves at risk, so how heat is narrated matters, and the news media play a central role in warning people.
- B captures both the danger and the media's pivotal warning role.
- D claims news stories must become more effective, which the passage never says (it is early warnings that underperform). A and C drop the media, the passage's endpoint.