DU LLB Mock Test - 8 (New Pattern) - CLAT MCQ

Direction: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active Voice/Passive Voice, Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/ Active Voice.

Q. The burglar destroyed several items in the room. Even the carpet has been torn.

Direction: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Q. You cannot learn music overnight. It is a _______ process.

Direction: Some parts of the sentence have errors and some are correct. Find out which part has an error and mark that part as your answer. If there are no errors, mark 'No error' as your answer.

Q. The movie who came out last week was really good.

Direction: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Solemn

Direction: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Contempt

Direction: Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.

Denounce

Direction: Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.

Slander

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follow.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. I have good memories of St Cyprian's, among a horde of bad ones. Sometimes on summer afternoons, there were wonderful expeditions across the Downs to a village called Birling Gap, or to Beachy Head, where one bathed dangerously among the boulders and came home covered with cuts. And there were still more wonderful mid-summer evenings when, as a special treat, we were not driven off to bed as usual but allowed to wander about the grounds in the long twilight, ending up with a plunge into the swimming bathe at about nine o'clock. There was the joy of waking early on summer mornings and getting in an hour's undisturbed reading (Ian Hay, Thackeray, Kipling, and H. G. Wells were the favourite authors of my boyhood) in the sunlit, sleeping dormitory. There was also cricket, which I was no good at but with which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affair up to the age of about eighteen. And there was the pleasure of keeping caterpillars — the silky green and purple puss-moth, the ghostly green poplar-hawk, the privet-hawk, large as one's third finger, specimens of which could be illicitly purchased for sixpence at a shop in the town and when one could escape long enough from the master who was ‘taking the walk’, there was the excitement of dredging the dew-ponds on the Downs for enormous newts with orange-coloured bellies. This business of being out for a walk, coming across something of fascinating interest, and then being dragged away from it by a yell from the master, as a dog jerked onwards by the leash, is an important feature of school life and helps to build up the conviction, so strong in many children, that the things you most want to do are always unattainable.

Q. We can infer that the writer was a-

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follow.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. I have good memories of St Cyprian's, among a horde of bad ones. Sometimes on summer afternoons, there were wonderful expeditions across the Downs to a village called Birling Gap, or to Beachy Head, where one bathed dangerously among the boulders and came home covered with cuts. And there were still more wonderful mid-summer evenings when, as a special treat, we were not driven off to bed as usual but allowed to wander about the grounds in the long twilight, ending up with a plunge into the swimming bathe at about nine o'clock. There was the joy of waking early on summer mornings and getting in an hour's undisturbed reading (Ian Hay, Thackeray, Kipling, and H. G. Wells were the favourite authors of my boyhood) in the sunlit, sleeping dormitory. There was also cricket, which I was no good at but with which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affair up to the age of about eighteen. And there was the pleasure of keeping caterpillars — the silky green and purple puss-moth, the ghostly green poplar-hawk, the privet-hawk, large as one's third finger, specimens of which could be illicitly purchased for sixpence at a shop in the town and when one could escape long enough from the master who was ‘taking the walk’, there was the excitement of dredging the dew-ponds on the Downs for enormous newts with orange-coloured bellies. This business of being out for a walk, coming across something of fascinating interest, and then being dragged away from it by a yell from the master, as a dog jerked onwards by the leash, is an important feature of school life and helps to build up the conviction, so strong in many children, that the things you most want to do are always unattainable.

Q. “Where one bathed dangerously”. Why does the writer call bathing dangerous?

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follow.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. I have good memories of St Cyprian's, among a horde of bad ones. Sometimes on summer afternoons, there were wonderful expeditions across the Downs to a village called Birling Gap, or to Beachy Head, where one bathed dangerously among the boulders and came home covered with cuts. And there were still more wonderful mid-summer evenings when, as a special treat, we were not driven off to bed as usual but allowed to wander about the grounds in the long twilight, ending up with a plunge into the swimming bathe at about nine o'clock. There was the joy of waking early on summer mornings and getting in an hour's undisturbed reading (Ian Hay, Thackeray, Kipling, and H. G. Wells were the favourite authors of my boyhood) in the sunlit, sleeping dormitory. There was also cricket, which I was no good at but with which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affair up to the age of about eighteen. And there was the pleasure of keeping caterpillars — the silky green and purple puss-moth, the ghostly green poplar-hawk, the privet-hawk, large as one's third finger, specimens of which could be illicitly purchased for sixpence at a shop in the town and when one could escape long enough from the master who was ‘taking the walk’, there was the excitement of dredging the dew-ponds on the Downs for enormous newts with orange-coloured bellies. This business of being out for a walk, coming across something of fascinating interest, and then being dragged away from it by a yell from the master, as a dog jerked onwards by the leash, is an important feature of school life and helps to build up the conviction, so strong in many children, that the things you most want to do are always unattainable.

Q. Which of the following did the boys not do on summer mornings?

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follow.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. I have good memories of St Cyprian's, among a horde of bad ones. Sometimes on summer afternoons, there were wonderful expeditions across the Downs to a village called Birling Gap, or to Beachy Head, where one bathed dangerously among the boulders and came home covered with cuts. And there were still more wonderful mid-summer evenings when, as a special treat, we were not driven off to bed as usual but allowed to wander about the grounds in the long twilight, ending up with a plunge into the swimming bathe at about nine o'clock. There was the joy of waking early on summer mornings and getting in an hour's undisturbed reading (Ian Hay, Thackeray, Kipling, and H. G. Wells were the favourite authors of my boyhood) in the sunlit, sleeping dormitory. There was also cricket, which I was no good at but with which I conducted a sort of hopeless love affair up to the age of about eighteen. And there was the pleasure of keeping caterpillars — the silky green and purple puss-moth, the ghostly green poplar-hawk, the privet-hawk, large as one's third finger, specimens of which could be illicitly purchased for sixpence at a shop in the town and when one could escape long enough from the master who was ‘taking the walk’, there was the excitement of dredging the dew-ponds on the Downs for enormous newts with orange-coloured bellies. This business of being out for a walk, coming across something of fascinating interest, and then being dragged away from it by a yell from the master, as a dog jerked onwards by the leash, is an important feature of school life and helps to build up the conviction, so strong in many children, that the things you most want to do are always unattainable.

Q. What is the ‘moral’ the boy draws from his childhood experiences?

Direction: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment. If no substitution is required select ‘No substitution’

Q. The assignment was so difficult for Mohit to do on his own.

Direction: The sentences given below are grammatically incorrect. Pick out the best suitable option to correct the sentence.

Q. A student was arrested for displaying an indecently art work in public.

Direction: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Q. I cannot believe they live ____ begging.

Direction: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active Voice/Passive Voice, Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/ Active Voice.

We must respect the elders.

Direction: Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. if there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

Q. My friend did not understand the story. She asked me for explain it her.

Direction: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Fortify

Direction: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Enthral

Direction: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Keep your shirt on

Direction: Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.

Hasty

Direction: In the following question, a sentence is given with a blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Q. We had to ________ the meeting as the electricity went off.

Direction: In the following question statements are given and these statements are followed by conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:

All the bottles are boxes.

All the boxes are bags.

Some bags are trays.

Conclusions:

I. Some bottles are trays.

II. Some trays are boxes.

III. All the bottles are bags.

IV. Some trays are bags.

Direction: In the following question, one statement is given followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to consider the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.

Statement:

Self-discipline is the key to order in society.

Conclusions:

I. Disturbances in society are due to people without self-discipline.

II. There is nobody with self-discipline in society.

Direction: In the question select the related word from the given alternatives.

Breeze : Cyclone : : Drizzle : ?

Direction: One statement is given followed by two assumptions, I and II. You have to consider the statement to be true, even if it seems to be at variance from commonly known facts. You are to decide which of the given assumptions can definitely be drawn from the given statement.

Statement:

Some people are uneducated and therefore, superstitious.

Assumptions:

I. Education increases rational thinking.

II. Some people don’t go to schools.

Direction: In the question are given two statements I and II. These statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statements. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choice correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements.

Statements:

I. Standard of living among the middle-class society is constantly going up for part of few years.

II. Indian Economy is observing remarkable growth.