XAT 2020 Question Paper | Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning

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Question 3 : Carefully read the paragraph below:
A map is a useful metaphor for our brain when talking about _______ because at its most basic level our brain __________to be our atlas of sorts, a system of routes _______to navigate us toward just one destination: staying alive!
From the options below, choose the set that MOST appropriately fills up the blanks.

1. Understanding, progressed, shaped
2. Comprehension, metamorphosed, designed
3. Connections, changed, molded
4. Design, developed, shaped
5. Perception, evolved, designed

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Explanatory Answer

From the given blanks we can understand that, a map is seen as a metaphor for our brain because it acts as an atlas, with routes, which helps us navigate to the one destination called staying alive i.e. it helps us to stay alive.

A metaphor is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else. Since we symbolically represent our brain as a map, the right choice for the first blank is ‘perception’. The right answer choice is E, ‘Perception, evolved, designed’.

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Choice E is the correct answer.