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please continue here for the Paragraph Summarization discussions for CAT 2012 
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http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/paragraph-summarization-for-cat-2011-25065121
SET 1
1. WHAT ails the Arabs? The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading. The Arabs are a dynamic and inventive people whose long and proud history includes fabulous contributions to art, culture, science and, of course, religion.
Options
1. A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out.
2.The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation. But there is a fever under the surface.
3. The score of modern Arab states, on the other hand, have been impressive mainly for their consistent record of failure.
4. The UNDP reckons the Arab world must create 50m new jobs by 2020 to accommodate a growing, youthful workforce-virtually impossible on present trends.
5. Arab governments are used to shrugging off criticism.
2.Why are economic commentators so excited about today's GDP figures? Regardless of what the numbers are, they are likely to misleading. Focusing on GDP misses the point - the "health" of the economy is too complex to be summarised in a single number.
Options
1. GDP doesn't tell us how economic activity affects living standards. It fails to distinguish between a bubble and sustainable growth.
2. It doesn't forewarn about inflation.
3. GDP doesn't help the average person on the street know whether they're more likely to become unemployed..
4. Statistics are like bikinis - what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is critical.
5. It would be like reviewing a novel based on the average words per page.
SET 1
1. WHAT ails the Arabs? The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading. The Arabs are a dynamic and inventive people whose long and proud history includes fabulous contributions to art, culture, science and, of course, religion.
Options
1. A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out.
2.The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation. But there is a fever under the surface.
3. The score of modern Arab states, on the other hand, have been impressive mainly for their consistent record of failure.
4. The UNDP reckons the Arab world must create 50m new jobs by 2020 to accommodate a growing, youthful workforcevirtually impossible on present trends.
5. Arab governments are used to shrugging off criticism.
2.Why are economic commentators so excited about todays GDP figures? Regardless of what the numbers are, they are likely to misleading. Focusing on GDP misses the point the health of the economy is too complex to be summarised in a single number.
Options
1. GDP doesnt tell us how economic activity affects living standards. It fails to distinguish between a bubble and sustainable growth.
2. It doesnt forewarn about inflation.
3. GDP doesnt help the average person on the street know whether theyre more likely to become unemployed..
4. Statistics are like bikinis what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is critical.
5. It would be like reviewing a novel based on the average words per page.
set 1
1.3
2.1
Set 1
1) 2
2) 4
SET 1
1. WHAT ails the Arabs? The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading. The Arabs are a dynamic and inventive people whose long and proud history includes fabulous contributions to art, culture, science and, of course, religion.
Options
1. A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out.
2.The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation. But there is a fever under the surface.
3. The score of modern Arab states, on the other hand, have been impressive mainly for their consistent record of failure.
4. The UNDP reckons the Arab world must create 50m new jobs by 2020 to accommodate a growing, youthful workforcevirtually impossible on present trends.
5. Arab governments are used to shrugging off criticism.
2.Why are economic commentators so excited about todays GDP figures? Regardless of what the numbers are, they are likely to misleading. Focusing on GDP misses the point the health of the economy is too complex to be summarised in a single number.
Options
1. GDP doesnt tell us how economic activity affects living standards. It fails to distinguish between a bubble and sustainable growth.
2. It doesnt forewarn about inflation.
3. GDP doesnt help the average person on the street know whether theyre more likely to become unemployed..
4. Statistics are like bikinis what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is critical.
5. It would be like reviewing a novel based on the average words per page.
My Take :-
1) 3
2) 4
Hi Guys,
please continue here for the Paragraph Summarization discussions for CAT 2012
SET 1
1. WHAT ails the Arabs? The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading. The Arabs are a dynamic and inventive people whose long and proud history includes fabulous contributions to art, culture, science and, of course, religion.
Options
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thanks for the reply
Set 1
2
1
Set1
2
1
Post 2:
Nevertheless, photographs still retain some of the magical allure that the earliest daguerreotypes inspired. As objects, our photographs have changed; they have become physically flimsier as they have become more technologically sophisticated. Daguerre produced pictures on copper plates; today many of our photographs never become tangible thins, but instead remain filed away on computers and cameras, part of the digital ether that envelops the modern world. At the same time, our patience for the creation of images has also eroded. Children today are used to being tracked from birth by digital cameras and video recorders and they expect to see the results of their poses and performances instantly. The space between life as it is being lived and life as it is being displayed shrinks to a mere second.
(1) Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.
(2) Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.
(3) Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.
(4) In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.
(5) Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photography's inventions became means of living life through images.
Post 2:
my take is option 1
My take Option 2
SET 1
1. WHAT ails the Arabs? The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) this week published the fifth in a series of hard-hitting reports on the state of the Arab world. It makes depressing reading. The Arabs are a dynamic and inventive people whose long and proud history includes fabulous contributions to art, culture, science and, of course, religion.
Options
1. A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out.
2.The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation. But there is a fever under the surface.
3. The score of modern Arab states, on the other hand, have been impressive mainly for their consistent record of failure.
4. The UNDP reckons the Arab world must create 50m new jobs by 2020 to accommodate a growing, youthful workforcevirtually impossible on present trends.
5. Arab governments are used to shrugging off criticism.
2.Why are economic commentators so excited about todays GDP figures? Regardless of what the numbers are, they are likely to misleading. Focusing on GDP misses the point the health of the economy is too complex to be summarised in a single number.
Options
1. GDP doesnt tell us how economic activity affects living standards. It fails to distinguish between a bubble and sustainable growth.
2. It doesnt forewarn about inflation.
3. GDP doesnt help the average person on the street know whether theyre more likely to become unemployed..
4. Statistics are like bikinis what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is critical.
5. It would be like reviewing a novel based on the average words per page.
my take:
1.3
2.1
Post 2:
my take:
option 1
Post 2:
OA : 1.
Must be a easy one..
Arabs: 3
GDP: 1
Photograph: 1
Post 2:
My take is Option 1...!!
Common guys post something!
Option 2: it talks both similarity and end of it