AILET Mock Test-6 (New Pattern) - CLAT MCQ

Direction: ​Read the following passage carefully and choose the appropriate answer to the question.

In the 16th century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king’s favour. After he was dismissed from service by the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain. A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally, they found the passage they sought near 50 degrees S latitude. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints, but today it is known as the Strait of Magellan. One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian now known as the International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after 98 days on the Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea, many of Magellan’s men died of starvation and disease. Later, Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship and 17 sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.

Q. Who was the navigator that led his crew successfully to Spain?

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

DEMOLISH

Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct form of the tense.

Q. I ______ the food yet, so you have to wait for some time.

Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct form of the tense.

Q. Naina ________ watching movies for 3 hours when her mother came.

Select the correctly spelt word.

Direction: Given below, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct option accordingly.

S1: The master always says, "Refuse to be miserable".

S6: This is the art of right contact in life.

P: Before you fall into self-pity and blame games, remember that responsibility comes to only those who feel responsible.

Q: Challenges are faced by the strong and courageous, and if life brings you such opportunities, then turn failures into success.

R: Life can be painful, but it need not be sorrowful.

S: If you want to be happy, find occasions to be cheerful.

The correct sequence should be:

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

PRODIGAL

Directions: The following items consist of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as (P), (Q), (R), and (S). You are required to rearrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

Q. as a record of (P) / and suffering of humans (Q) / the achievements, experiments (R) / history is considered (S)

The correct sequence should be:

Directions: The following items consist of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as (P), (Q), (R), and (S). You are required to rearrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

Q. can be invented (P) / it appears (Q) / has been invented (R) / that all that (S)

The correct sequence should be:

Directions: The following items consist of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as (P), (Q), (R), and (S). You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

Q. of all searches for knowledge (P) / should be the beginning (Q) / an exploration into truth (R) / and experiments of life (S)

The correct sequence should be:

Directions: The following items consist of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as (P), (Q), (R), and (S). You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

Q. in service firms (P) / operations strategy (Q) / from the corporate strategy (R) / is generally inseparable (S)

The correct sequence should be:

Directions: The following items consist of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as (P), (Q), (R), and (S). You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

Q. during the last century (P) / Indian social, political and cultural life (Q) / as a testimony of (R) / Indian cinema stands (S)

The correct sequence should be:

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

IRRELEVANT

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and choose the appropriate answer to the question.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, famous for his passionate paintings and a life of extreme talent mixed with tragedy. Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890, after befriending artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Georges Seurat. During his lifetime, Impressionism became widely accepted and artists such as Claude Monet became popular with their soft, pastel palettes and play with light. In contrast, Vincent van Gogh’s intense and often dark paintings were not widely favoured at the time. Van Gogh lived modestly and sold only a few paintings while he was alive. With financial and moral assistance from his beloved brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh was able to survive and pursue his desire to paint. He lived in Paris, then moved to Arles in Provence, France, and was later institutionalized in Saint-Remy, but continued to paint and draw. He was a solitary man, absorbed in, and some say obsessed by, his art. He was also a very compassionate man, giving away many of his possessions to those less fortunate. Originally, Vincent van Gogh had decided to become a minister, like his father. However, he later discovered his passion for painting and in only ten years created over 800 paintings and 800 drawings. Vincent van Gogh found subjects in his surroundings, thus painting portraits, landscapes, and images of places and people he encountered. He would often associate with humble, impoverished people, while he himself often lived in poverty. One of his most famous paintings is “The Potato Eaters,” which depicts peasants and expresses how their lives are intertwined with manual labour and the earth. Many subjects of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings also included beauty found in nature as he would take long walks in wheat fields, along ponds, through fields of flowers, and among giant cypress trees.

Q. Van Gogh was able to pursue his passion because of his:

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and choose the appropriate answer to the question.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, famous for his passionate paintings and a life of extreme talent mixed with tragedy. Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890, after befriending artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Georges Seurat. During his lifetime, Impressionism became widely accepted and artists such as Claude Monet became popular with their soft, pastel palettes and play with light. In contrast, Vincent van Gogh’s intense and often dark paintings were not widely favoured at the time. Van Gogh lived modestly and sold only a few paintings while he was alive. With financial and moral assistance from his beloved brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh was able to survive and pursue his desire to paint. He lived in Paris, then moved to Arles in Provence, France, and was later institutionalized in Saint-Remy, but continued to paint and draw. He was a solitary man, absorbed in, and some say obsessed by, his art. He was also a very compassionate man, giving away many of his possessions to those less fortunate. Originally, Vincent van Gogh had decided to become a minister, like his father. However, he later discovered his passion for painting and in only ten years created over 800 paintings and 800 drawings. Vincent van Gogh found subjects in his surroundings, thus painting portraits, landscapes, and images of places and people he encountered. He would often associate with humble, impoverished people, while he himself often lived in poverty. One of his most famous paintings is “The Potato Eaters,” which depicts peasants and expresses how their lives are intertwined with manual labour and the earth. Many subjects of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings also included beauty found in nature as he would take long walks in wheat fields, along ponds, through fields of flowers, and among giant cypress trees.

Q. What type of people did he associate with?

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

SPONTANEOUS

Direction: Choose the appropriate preposition to complete the given sentence.

Q. I prefer Hindi songs ________ Telugu songs.

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

Up in arms

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

ASSERTION

Direction: In the following questions, four/five alternatives are given for the meaning of the given Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

To pick holes

Direction: Choose the appropriate articles to complete the given sentence.

Q. Any change in _______ risk-o-meter reading with regard to _______ scheme shall be communicated to the unit-holders of that scheme, said SEBI.

Direction: Choose the word that is an antonym to the given word.

PERSIST

Direction: In the following question the 1^st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered S1 and S6 The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.

S1. As a boy, Charles Darwin showed no promise to be a good student.

P. He was a failure at school.

Q. He had a greater interest in flowers, birds, and stories about them.

R. The narrow old fashioned syllabus of his school was dull to him.

S. So he was a problem for his parents.

S6. His father then sent him to study medicine to carry on the family profession.

Choose the correctly spelt word from the given words.

Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Scientists from four Canadian universities used Fitbits and spy mics to record over 14,000 hours of sound from the secret lives of Canada lynx, a medium-sized cat-like North American predator. It is usually found across Canada and the north-American US region. Canada lynx are difficult to study for researchers because of their elusive nature. This led researchers to use the latest miniaturized technology to gain insights into their lives, a first in remote wildlife research. Researchers attached accelerometers and small audio recorders as collars to the animals, which are one of the top predators of the boreal forest of Canada.

On 26 lynx that were the subject of the study, researchers deployed a total of 39 collars with the recording devices that captured over 14,470 hours of data. “The first time going through the audio files… you just hear the chaos. And then click a little bit further along and you hear what you think is bones cracking," said Emily Studd, the lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, in an interview to CBS.

In the recorded audio, the animals can be heard bonding, fighting, cleaning themselves, and even whining after losing a meal. Studd and her colleagues spent five years on the study that offers the science community a peek into the animals’ lives. "I spent three years in the field specifically tracking them, and rarely ever saw them," Studd underscores the challenges of studying the predators’ lives. According to her, because predators need to sneak up on their prey, they are naturally secretive animals.

The new study, which was published in the British Ecological Society’s journal Methods of Ecology and Evolution, opens up a new possibility of using such technologies to study and monitor the hunting behavior of predators. These technologies can make documentation of even the smallest activities of elusive animals possible.

Q. Out of the given words in options, which one is the most similar to elusive?

Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Scientists from four Canadian universities used Fitbits and spy mics to record over 14,000 hours of sound from the secret lives of Canada lynx, a medium-sized cat-like North American predator. It is usually found across Canada and the north-American US region. Canada lynx are difficult to study for researchers because of their elusive nature. This led researchers to use the latest miniaturized technology to gain insights into their lives, a first in remote wildlife research. Researchers attached accelerometers and small audio recorders as collars to the animals, which are one of the top predators of the boreal forest of Canada.

On 26 lynx that were the subject of the study, researchers deployed a total of 39 collars with the recording devices that captured over 14,470 hours of data. “The first time going through the audio files… you just hear the chaos. And then click a little bit further along and you hear what you think is bones cracking," said Emily Studd, the lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, in an interview to CBS.

In the recorded audio, the animals can be heard bonding, fighting, cleaning themselves, and even whining after losing a meal. Studd and her colleagues spent five years on the study that offers the science community a peek into the animals’ lives. "I spent three years in the field specifically tracking them, and rarely ever saw them," Studd underscores the challenges of studying the predators’ lives. According to her, because predators need to sneak up on their prey, they are naturally secretive animals.

The new study, which was published in the British Ecological Society’s journal Methods of Ecology and Evolution, opens up a new possibility of using such technologies to study and monitor the hunting behavior of predators. These technologies can make documentation of even the smallest activities of elusive animals possible.

Q. The passage talks about which predator?

Select the incorrectly spelt word.