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CAT 2021 Slot 3

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the numbers as your answer.

Businesses find automation, such as robotic employees, a big asset in terms of productivity and efficiency.

But in recent years, robotics has had increasing impacts on unemployment, not just of manual labour, as computers are rapidly handling some white-collar and service-sector work.

For years politicians have promised workers that they would bring back their jobs by clamping down on trade, off shoring and immigration.

Economists, based on their research, say that the bigger threat to jobs now is not globalisation but automation.

CAT 2018 Slot 2

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the numbers as your answer.

It was his taxpayers who had to shell out as much as $1.6 \text{ bn}$ over $10$ years to employees of failed companies.
Companies in many countries routinely engage in such activities which means that the employees are left with unpaid entitlements.
Deliberate and systematic liquidation of a company to avoid liabilities and then restarting the business is called phoenixing.
The Australian Minister for Revenue and Services discovered in an audit that phoenixing had cost the Australian economy between

$2.9 \text{ bn}$ and $5.1 \text{ bn}$ last year.

CAT 2019 Slot 1

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the numbers as your answer.

Metaphors may map to similar meanings across languages, but their subtle differences can have a profound effect on our understanding of the world.
Latin scholars point out carpe diem is a horticultural metaphor that, particularly seen in the context of its source, is more accurately translated as "plucking the day," evoking the plucking and gathering of ripening fruits or flowers, enjoying a moment that is rooted in the sensory experience of nature, unrelated to the force implied in seizing.
The phrase carpe diem, which is often translated as "seize the day and its accompanying philosophy, has gone on to inspire countless people in how they live their lives and motivates us to see the world a little differently from the norm
It's an example of one of the more telling ways that we mistranslate metaphors from one language to another, revealing in the process our hidden assumptions about what we really value.

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