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CAT Exam 2025 Slot 2 Paper

Section: VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

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Question : 7 of 68

Marks: +1, -0

DIRECTIONS for the question 7: The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1, 2, 3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.
Paragraph: Once upon the silty banks of the Meghna River, a miracle was spun - a fabric so light it was called "baft-hawa", or woven air. This was Dhaka Muslin - the world's most coveted cloth.
____ (1) ____ . Handspun from a rare cotton called Phuti Karpas, found nowhere else on Earth, and woven with a 16 -step sacred ritual - beginning with cleaning the cotton using the teeth of a river catfish! ____ (2) ____ . Every spring, the maple-like leaves pushed up through the grey, silty soil to produce a single daffodilyellow flower twice a year, which gave way to a snowy floret of cotton fibres. ____ (3) ____ . Spun at dawn on boats by sharp-eyed young women, its threads were so fine the elderly could barely see them. Motifs of wildflowers, river breeze, and soul were etched into each piece - some so light, a 91 -metre bolt could pass through a ring, or a 60′ length fit inside a snuffbox. It draped Greek goddesses, Roman nobles, Mughal emperors, and European aristocrats. Marie Antoinette, Empress Joséphine - even Jane Austen adored its floating grace. ____ (4) ____ .
Sentence: The region's Western customers found it hard to believe that Dhaka muslin could possibly have been made by human hands - there were rumour that it was woven by mermaids, fairies and even ghosts.

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