Paragraph Completion - Surgeon Hands
CAT 2008 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Medium · Reading Comprehension
This is a medium Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2008 Slot 1 paper. It tests Reading Comprehension. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door. [_____]
- A.
Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
- B.
Other patients don't like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
- C.
But Perowne himself is not concerned.
- D.
But others will take their place, he thought.
- E.
These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
B
Explanation
Option (2) seamlessly completes the thought about patients leaving after seeing his hands.
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