Test: Reading Comprehension - 3 - CLAT MCQ

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Sally overslept. Therefore, she did not eat breakfast. She realized that she was late for school, so she ran as fast as she could and did not see a hole in the ground which was in her path. She tripped and broke her ankle. She was then taken to the hospital and while lying in bed was visited by her friend, who wanted to know why she had got up so late.

Which of the following conclusions can be made from the above passage?

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

The function of a food technologist in a large marketing chain of food stores is to ensure that all foodstuffs which are offered for sale in the various retail outlets meet certain standard criteria for non perishability, freshness, and fitness for human consumption.

It is the technologist’s job to visit the premises of suppliers and food producers (factory or farm), inspect the facilities and report thereon. His responsibility also includes receiving new products from local and foreign suppliers and performing exhaustive quality control testing on them. Finally, he should carry out surprise spot checks on goods in the marketing chain’s own workhouses and stores.

What conclusion can best be drawn from the preceding paragraph?

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

In the human body, platelets promote blood clotting by clumping together.

Aspirin has been found to prevent clotting by making platelets less sticky.

Research has now shown that heart attacks and strokes caused by blood clots could be avoided by taking one aspirin a day. Statistics show that the incidence of second heart attacks has been reduced by 21% and overall mortality rates by 15% as a result of taking aspirin.

Unfortunately, the drug has several unpleasant side-effects, including nausea, gastric bleeding, and, in severe cases, shock. In children, it has been linked to Reye’s syndrome, a rare, but occasionally fatal, childhood illness.

On balance, however, for men aged 40 and over, an aspirin a day may present an excellent prophylactic measure for a disease that affects 1.5 million American yearly and claims the lives of about 540,000.

Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn from the information above?

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Every town with a pool hall has its share of unsavoury characters. This is because the pool hall attracts gamblers and all gamblers are unsavoury.

Which of the following, if true, cannot be inferred from the above?

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Average family income is right where it was 20 years ago, even though, in most families these days, husbands and wives are working.

The above statement implies all of the following EXCEPT:

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Partly because of bad weather,but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

In national surveys taken between 1970 and 1985, the percentage of respondents who reported that they usually attended weekly religious services rose from 28 per cent to 34 per cent. However, statistics compiled during the same period by the nation’s major religious denominations showed a gradual decline in attendance at weekly services.

Each of the following, if true, could help explain the apparent contradiction in the statements above EXCEPT

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Last year, the number of cases of rape reported by women in this city increased by twenty per cent. Ironically, these statistics have been cited with approval by advocates of women’s rights.

Which of the following, if true, would logically explain the seemingly paradoxical approval of the women’s rights advocates?

Statement: The captain of the school football team selected only fourteen players to play all the eight matches of the interschool football competition. 
Assumptions: 
I. There may be adequate number of football players for all the matches. 
II. The captain may be able to play in all the matches.

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Young people who imagine that the life of the writer is one of glamour, riches or fame soon discover not only the difficulties of the craft but the long odds against achieving any measure of recognition or financial security.

Upon being asked, “Aren’t most editors failed writers?”, T.S. Eliot is said to have remarked, “Yes, but so are most writers.”

The statement by T.S. Eliot conveys which of the following ideas?

Those in the business community who decry government regulation claim that it increases the costs of doing business and reduces beneficial competition, ultimately harming both business and the community as a whole. They point to industries such as trucking, airlines, and telecommunications, in which deregulation has apparently brought greater economic efficiency. These commentators ignore the industries, such as financial services, in which government regulation is essential; indeed, without government intervention in the 1930s, some whole segments of that industry might have permanently collapsed.

The author’s point is made primarily by

Directions: In the following questions tests your ability to derive conclusions from complex situations. Read each question carefully and answer the questions that follow.

The owners of a local supermarket have decided to make use of three now-redundant check-out counters. They believe that they will attract those customers who have lately been put off by the long check-out lines during the mid-morning and evening rush hours. The owners have concluded that in order to be successful, the increased revenue from existing and added counters will have to be more than the increase in maintenance costs for the added counters.

The underlying goal of the owners can be summarised thus: