Sample Test: Logical Reasoning - CLAT MCQ

It cannot be stressed enough the richness and inclusiveness of Derrida's archive considerations. Of particular interest to archivists and records managers is Derrida's examination of inscription technology, from tablets to email. Here he is concerned with inscription technology's relationship to both the psychic apparatus and archives. Concerning the former relationship, Derrida questions if Freud's conception of the psychic apparatus is still informed, if indeed archiving and reproduction technology affect the structures of the mind.
Concerning the latter, Derrida asserts that archiving technology determines "the very institution of the archivable event," (18) informing as well the conception of the future and possibly the future itself. Record managers and archivists may well accept this notion as it certainly lends the profession expansive power and responsibility. Included in this notion however is the fluid relationship between the archive and what it archives. The archive, its structure, formulation and operation is informed by its contents along with any number of external bodies of knowledge. Derrida asserts then that the archive cannot remain outside what it memorializes. This removes some of the objectivity with which records and archival documents are typically treated.

Which of the following is necessary for an archivable event to take place?

It cannot be stressed enough the richness and inclusiveness of Derrida's archive considerations. Of particular interest to archivists and records managers is Derrida's examination of inscription technology, from tablets to email. Here he is concerned with inscription technology's relationship to both the psychic apparatus and archives. Concerning the former relationship, Derrida questions if Freud's conception of the psychic apparatus is still informed, if indeed archiving and reproduction technology affect the structures of the mind.
Concerning the latter, Derrida asserts that archiving technology determines "the very institution of the archivable event," (18) informing as well the conception of the future and possibly the future itself. Record managers and archivists may well accept this notion as it certainly lends the profession expansive power and responsibility. Included in this notion however is the fluid relationship between the archive and what it archives. The archive, its structure, formulation and operation is informed by its contents along with any number of external bodies of knowledge. Derrida asserts then that the archive cannot remain outside what it memorializes. This removes some of the objectivity with which records and archival documents are typically treated.

Which of the following is close to Derrida's concerns regarding the creation of an archive?

There's a reason why you feel hungry all the time. According to Eric Edmeades, there are six forms of human hunger which we experience - but they're not all created equal. Only one of these six forms is genuine. This is called Nutritional Hunger. As the name suggest, this hunger occurs when the body is asking for specific nutrients. However, our bodies have been taught to eat anything in sight, so be careful -nutritional hunger is not always communicated in an honest way. The other five forms of hunger are as follows Thirst: Our ancestors didn't used to be able to fill up bottles of water- so our water mostly came from the food we ate.
Now, when your body is thirsty, it instead communicates hunger. Variety: This form of craving is an ancient mechanism our body developed to ensure we have a balanced diet.
Low blood sugar: This results in low energy levels and our body interprets as hunger.
Emotional hunger: W e start associating different food with different emotions and this is potentially the most common and dangerous form of dysfunctional eating. Empty stomach hunger: It is a survival strategy and it came into being because for most of our history regular food was a luxury and people used to live in a feast and famine cycle. Its best to ignore this craving.
Once you understand these and learn to identify the right form of your cravings, you'll be able to the difference between being actually hungry or your body just playing tricks on you. And this will transform your life.

Which of the following, if true, will strengthen the author's claim?

There's a reason why you feel hungry all the time. According to Eric Edmeades, there are six forms of human hunger which we experience - but they're not all created equal. Only one of these six forms is genuine. This is called Nutritional Hunger. As the name suggest, this hunger occurs when the body is asking for specific nutrients. However, our bodies have been taught to eat anything in sight, so be careful -nutritional hunger is not always communicated in an honest way. The other five forms of hunger are as follows Thirst: Our ancestors didn't used to be able to fill up bottles of water- so our water mostly came from the food we ate.
Now, when your body is thirsty, it instead communicates hunger. Variety: This form of craving is an ancient mechanism our body developed to ensure we have a balanced diet.
Low blood sugar: This results in low energy levels and our body interprets as hunger.
Emotional hunger: W e start associating different food with different emotions and this is potentially the most common and dangerous form of dysfunctional eating. Empty stomach hunger: It is a survival strategy and it came into being because for most of our history regular food was a luxury and people used to live in a feast and famine cycle. Its best to ignore this craving.
Once you understand these and learn to identify the right form of your cravings, you'll be able to the difference between being actually hungry or your body just playing tricks on you. And this will transform your life.

Which of the following is an implicit assumption made by the author?

There's a reason why you feel hungry all the time. According to Eric Edmeades, there are six forms of human hunger which we experience - but they're not all created equal. Only one of these six forms is genuine. This is called Nutritional Hunger. As the name suggest, this hunger occurs when the body is asking for specific nutrients. However, our bodies have been taught to eat anything in sight, so be careful -nutritional hunger is not always communicated in an honest way. The other five forms of hunger are as follows Thirst: Our ancestors didn't used to be able to fill up bottles of water- so our water mostly came from the food we ate.
Now, when your body is thirsty, it instead communicates hunger. Variety: This form of craving is an ancient mechanism our body developed to ensure we have a balanced diet.
Low blood sugar: This results in low energy levels and our body interprets as hunger.
Emotional hunger: W e start associating different food with different emotions and this is potentially the most common and dangerous form of dysfunctional eating. Empty stomach hunger: It is a survival strategy and it came into being because for most of our history regular food was a luxury and people used to live in a feast and famine cycle. Its best to ignore this craving.
Once you understand these and learn to identify the right form of your cravings, you'll be able to the difference between being actually hungry or your body just playing tricks on you. And this will transform your life.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

There's a reason why you feel hungry all the time. According to Eric Edmeades, there are six forms of human hunger which we experience - but they're not all created equal. Only one of these six forms is genuine. This is called Nutritional Hunger. As the name suggest, this hunger occurs when the body is asking for specific nutrients. However, our bodies have been taught to eat anything in sight, so be careful -nutritional hunger is not always communicated in an honest way. The other five forms of hunger are as follows Thirst: Our ancestors didn't used to be able to fill up bottles of water- so our water mostly came from the food we ate.
Now, when your body is thirsty, it instead communicates hunger. Variety: This form of craving is an ancient mechanism our body developed to ensure we have a balanced diet.
Low blood sugar: This results in low energy levels and our body interprets as hunger.
Emotional hunger: W e start associating different food with different emotions and this is potentially the most common and dangerous form of dysfunctional eating. Empty stomach hunger: It is a survival strategy and it came into being because for most of our history regular food was a luxury and people used to live in a feast and famine cycle. Its best to ignore this craving.
Once you understand these and learn to identify the right form of your cravings, you'll be able to the difference between being actually hungry or your body just playing tricks on you. And this will transform your life.

Which of the following, if true, will weaken the author's claims?

There's a reason why you feel hungry all the time. According to Eric Edmeades, there are six forms of human hunger which we experience - but they're not all created equal. Only one of these six forms is genuine. This is called Nutritional Hunger. As the name suggest, this hunger occurs when the body is asking for specific nutrients. However, our bodies have been taught to eat anything in sight, so be careful -nutritional hunger is not always communicated in an honest way. The other five forms of hunger are as follows Thirst: Our ancestors didn't used to be able to fill up bottles of water- so our water mostly came from the food we ate.
Now, when your body is thirsty, it instead communicates hunger. Variety: This form of craving is an ancient mechanism our body developed to ensure we have a balanced diet.
Low blood sugar: This results in low energy levels and our body interprets as hunger.
Emotional hunger: W e start associating different food with different emotions and this is potentially the most common and dangerous form of dysfunctional eating. Empty stomach hunger: It is a survival strategy and it came into being because for most of our history regular food was a luxury and people used to live in a feast and famine cycle. Its best to ignore this craving.
Once you understand these and learn to identify the right form of your cravings, you'll be able to the difference between being actually hungry or your body just playing tricks on you. And this will transform your life.

Select the statement that best reflects the main idea of the passage?

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the national population, but for 48% of its patents and 33% of its gross domestic product. But why has human activity become increasingly concentrated? Here we use data on scientific papers, patents, employment and gross domestic product, for 353 metropolitan areas in the United States, to show that the spatial concentration of productive activities increases with their complexity. Complex economic activities, such as biotechnology, neurobiology and semiconductors, concentrate disproportionately in a few large cities compared to less-complex activities, such as apparel or paper manufacturing. We use multiple proxies to measure the complexity of activities, finding that complexity explains from 40% to 80% of the variance in urban concentration of occupations, industries, scientific fields and technologies.
Using historical patent data, we show that the spatial concentration of cutting-edge technologies has increased since 1850, suggesting a reinforcing cycle between the increase in the complexity of activities and urbanization.
These findings suggest that the growth of spatial inequality may be connected to the increasing complexity of the economy.

Which of the following sentences BEST conveys the central idea of the passage?

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the national population, but for 48% of its patents and 33% of its gross domestic product. But why has human activity become increasingly concentrated? Here we use data on scientific papers, patents, employment and gross domestic product, for 353 metropolitan areas in the United States, to show that the spatial concentration of productive activities increases with their complexity. Complex economic activities, such as biotechnology, neurobiology and semiconductors, concentrate disproportionately in a few large cities compared to less-complex activities, such as apparel or paper manufacturing. We use multiple proxies to measure the complexity of activities, finding that complexity explains from 40% to 80% of the variance in urban concentration of occupations, industries, scientific fields and technologies.
Using historical patent data, we show that the spatial concentration of cutting-edge technologies has increased since 1850, suggesting a reinforcing cycle between the increase in the complexity of activities and urbanization.
These findings suggest that the growth of spatial inequality may be connected to the increasing complexity of the economy.

Which of the following is not an example of complex economic activity?

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the national population, but for 48% of its patents and 33% of its gross domestic product. But why has human activity become increasingly concentrated? Here we use data on scientific papers, patents, employment and gross domestic product, for 353 metropolitan areas in the United States, to show that the spatial concentration of productive activities increases with their complexity. Complex economic activities, such as biotechnology, neurobiology and semiconductors, concentrate disproportionately in a few large cities compared to less-complex activities, such as apparel or paper manufacturing. We use multiple proxies to measure the complexity of activities, finding that complexity explains from 40% to 80% of the variance in urban concentration of occupations, industries, scientific fields and technologies.
Using historical patent data, we show that the spatial concentration of cutting-edge technologies has increased since 1850, suggesting a reinforcing cycle between the increase in the complexity of activities and urbanization.
These findings suggest that the growth of spatial inequality may be connected to the increasing complexity of the economy.

Which of the following statements weakens the authors argument?

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the national population, but for 48% of its patents and 33% of its gross domestic product. But why has human activity become increasingly concentrated? Here we use data on scientific papers, patents, employment and gross domestic product, for 353 metropolitan areas in the United States, to show that the spatial concentration of productive activities increases with their complexity. Complex economic activities, such as biotechnology, neurobiology and semiconductors, concentrate disproportionately in a few large cities compared to less-complex activities, such as apparel or paper manufacturing. We use multiple proxies to measure the complexity of activities, finding that complexity explains from 40% to 80% of the variance in urban concentration of occupations, industries, scientific fields and technologies.
Using historical patent data, we show that the spatial concentration of cutting-edge technologies has increased since 1850, suggesting a reinforcing cycle between the increase in the complexity of activities and urbanization.
These findings suggest that the growth of spatial inequality may be connected to the increasing complexity of the economy.

Which of the following can be a reason why using patent data as a measure of complexity may be incorrect?

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the national population, but for 48% of its patents and 33% of its gross domestic product. But why has human activity become increasingly concentrated? Here we use data on scientific papers, patents, employment and gross domestic product, for 353 metropolitan areas in the United States, to show that the spatial concentration of productive activities increases with their complexity. Complex economic activities, such as biotechnology, neurobiology and semiconductors, concentrate disproportionately in a few large cities compared to less-complex activities, such as apparel or paper manufacturing. We use multiple proxies to measure the complexity of activities, finding that complexity explains from 40% to 80% of the variance in urban concentration of occupations, industries, scientific fields and technologies.
Using historical patent data, we show that the spatial concentration of cutting-edge technologies has increased since 1850, suggesting a reinforcing cycle between the increase in the complexity of activities and urbanization.
These findings suggest that the growth of spatial inequality may be connected to the increasing complexity of the economy.

Which of the following statements can be inferred from the given text?