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GATE 2021 CH – Question 5

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Grammar and Vocabulary · 1 mark · Multiple choice

_____ is to surgery as writer is to _____. Which one of the following options maintains a similar logical relation in the above sentence?

  1. Plan, outline
  2. Hospital, library
  3. Doctor, book
  4. Medicine, grammar

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Correct answer: (C) Doctor, book

Explanation

The relation is between a person and the work that the person performs or produces: a **doctor** performs surgery, and a **writer** writes a **book**.

The other pairs involve a plan, a place or an associated subject rather than the corresponding practitioner and output. **Answer: C (Doctor, book).**