CLAT UG question bank
CLAT UG English Language questions 239-262 of 310, with answer keys and explanations covering central ideas, inference, tone, vocabulary in context, paragraph structure, and passage interpretation.
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Practice passage-based CLAT UG questions with answers for English, current affairs, legal reasoning, logical reasoning, and quantitative techniques.
A museum label often presents an object's category as settled. Yet categories may change when new evidence appears or when communities challenge a name imposed from outside. Changing a label does not alter the physical object. It changes the frame through which visitors encounter it, including what history is treated as relevant and whose terminology is recognised. Constant revision can confuse readers if the reason is hidden. Museums should preserve earlier records, explain significant changes, and distinguish uncertainty from error. Authority is not weakened by showing that knowledge develops. A label can be concise while making its sources and limits visible.
Visible revision can demonstrate that knowledge develops.
Authority requires pretending that categories never change.
Community terminology is always irrelevant.
Every old label was deceptive.
Correct answer: A. Visible revision can demonstrate that knowledge develops.
A reflects the final paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 24, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Object and building
Visitor and curator
Uncertainty and error
History and language
Correct answer: C. Uncertainty and error
C is stated in the third paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 24, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A public dashboard can place thousands of figures within reach while leaving citizens unable to answer a basic question. Availability is not the same as legibility. Users need definitions, dates, units, and a clear account of whether a figure is provisional or final. A graph without this context may produce false comparison. Simplification also creates risk. A single headline number can hide variation across neighbourhoods or groups. Good design allows an overview while preserving a path to detail. Transparency requires more than releasing data. It requires presenting information so that readers can understand its scope, limits, and practical significance.
Public data must be understandable and contextual, not merely available.
Dashboards should contain only one number.
Definitions prevent every error.
All detailed data should be hidden.
Correct answer: A. Public data must be understandable and contextual, not merely available.
A captures the distinction between availability and usable transparency.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Every graph is false.
Users cannot see colours.
Readers may compare figures whose meaning or basis differs.
Provisional data is always final.
Correct answer: C. Readers may compare figures whose meaning or basis differs.
C follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A headline number with no source
An overview linked to definitions and disaggregated detail
A table without units
A graph hiding provisional status
Correct answer: B. An overview linked to definitions and disaggregated detail
B applies the passage's design principles.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
It always increases detail.
It prevents publication.
It guarantees equal outcomes.
It can conceal important variation among groups or places.
Correct answer: D. It can conceal important variation among groups or places.
D follows from the third paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Analytical and practical
Hostile and sarcastic
Entirely celebratory
Personal and nostalgic
Correct answer: A. Analytical and practical
A reflects the constructive evaluation.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A musical score preserves notes, but not every feature of a past performance. Tempo may have varied, instruments may have sounded different, and performers may have followed conventions never written down. Historical reconstruction therefore combines documents, surviving instruments, recordings, and informed judgment. The result can be disciplined without claiming to reproduce one exact original event. Audiences sometimes mistake uncertainty for carelessness. In fact, stating where evidence ends can be a sign of rigour. Competing reconstructions may reveal different plausible choices. The aim is not to erase the distance between past and present. It is to make that distance audible while using evidence responsibly.
Proving that scores preserve every detail
Explaining how historical performance can be reconstructed rigorously despite uncertainty
Rejecting all modern performances
Showing that instruments never change
Correct answer: B. Explaining how historical performance can be reconstructed rigorously despite uncertainty
B captures the qualified account of reconstruction.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Written notes are always wrong.
Music has no tempo.
Recordings replace instruments.
Some conventions and performance choices were never recorded.
Correct answer: D. Some conventions and performance choices were never recorded.
D follows from the first paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Uncertainty proves carelessness.
Only one reconstruction can be plausible.
Acknowledging evidentiary limits can demonstrate rigour.
Judgment has no place in reconstruction.
Correct answer: C. Acknowledging evidentiary limits can demonstrate rigour.
C follows from the third paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Allowing the reconstruction to reveal rather than conceal uncertainty and change
Using maximum volume
Removing all old instruments
Refusing to use evidence
Correct answer: A. Allowing the reconstruction to reveal rather than conceal uncertainty and change
A captures the metaphor in the final paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Dismissive of historical evidence
Reflective and evidence-conscious
Certain that the past can be copied exactly
Comic and exaggerated
Correct answer: B. Reflective and evidence-conscious
B reflects the passage's careful approach.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 25, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A device may belong to its buyer while remaining practically controlled by its manufacturer. Sealed components, unavailable manuals, and software locks can make ordinary repair impossible. Manufacturers argue that restrictions protect safety, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. These concerns are real, but they do not justify every barrier. A rule can protect sensitive code while still permitting access to parts and diagnostic information. Repairability also has environmental value. Extending a product's useful life can reduce waste, although repair is not automatically sustainable if parts are inefficient or repeatedly fail. The issue is therefore not a choice between unrestricted access and total control. It is how to distribute information, responsibility, and risk so that ownership remains meaningful.
Repair policy should balance meaningful ownership with legitimate safety and intellectual property concerns.
Every repair restriction is justified.
Ownership has no relation to product control.
Repair is always environmentally beneficial.
Correct answer: A. Repair policy should balance meaningful ownership with legitimate safety and intellectual property concerns.
A captures the passage's balanced argument.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Manufacturers legally own every sold device.
Buyers cannot use devices.
Design and information barriers may prevent buyers from repairing their own property.
All software is unsafe.
Correct answer: C. Design and information barriers may prevent buyers from repairing their own property.
C follows from the first paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Publishing every piece of sensitive source code
Providing parts and diagnostics while protecting genuinely sensitive information
Prohibiting all independent repair
Ignoring cybersecurity risks
Correct answer: B. Providing parts and diagnostics while protecting genuinely sensitive information
B reflects the proposed balance.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Repair always creates more waste.
New products use no resources.
Product life cannot be extended.
Replacement parts may be inefficient or prone to repeated failure.
Correct answer: D. Replacement parts may be inefficient or prone to repeated failure.
D states the environmental qualification.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Measured and analytical
Mocking and hostile
Entirely nostalgic
Unquestioningly promotional
Correct answer: A. Measured and analytical
A reflects the balanced assessment.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Digitisation can rescue fragile records from obscurity, but a scanned page is not a complete archive. The order of files, notes on folders, physical marks, and gaps in a collection may all carry meaning. Search tools create another change. They allow a researcher to find one phrase across thousands of pages, yet the convenience can detach a sentence from the document and dispute that gave it significance. This does not make digitisation harmful. It makes description essential. Catalogues should record provenance, arrangement, omissions, and the limits of optical text recognition. A useful digital archive expands access while preserving routes back to context. Its success lies not only in how quickly users find an item, but in how well they can understand what that item is.
Showing that physical archives should be destroyed
Arguing that digital access must preserve archival context and limitations
Proving that search tools never work
Claiming that every scan is complete
Correct answer: B. Arguing that digital access must preserve archival context and limitations
B captures the passage's central concern.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
It always changes the scanned words.
It removes every catalogue.
It prevents access to documents.
It can separate a sentence from the circumstances that gave it meaning.
Correct answer: D. It can separate a sentence from the circumstances that gave it meaning.
D follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
The market price of a document
The colour of a scanner
The origin and history of a record or collection
The speed of a search
Correct answer: C. The origin and history of a record or collection
C fits the archival context.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Access and contextual description should be developed together.
Digitisation is useful only when physical records vanish.
Optical text recognition has no limits.
A fast search alone proves archival quality.
Correct answer: A. Access and contextual description should be developed together.
A follows from the final two paragraphs.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Alarmist and absolute
Cautiously supportive
Indifferent to access
Comic and informal
Correct answer: B. Cautiously supportive
B reflects qualified support for digitisation.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 26, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Maps appear factual because they use coordinates, scales, and measured boundaries. Yet every map selects. It enlarges some features, omits others, and chooses names and categories. Selection is unavoidable. A transport map designed for commuters should not resemble a geological survey. The problem begins when a map's purpose and omissions are hidden behind an appearance of complete neutrality. Digital maps add further choices through search rankings and personalised recommendations. What appears first may reflect commercial arrangements or past user behaviour rather than physical importance. Critical reading does not require distrusting every map. It requires asking who made it, for what task, from which data, and with what consequences.
Maps are useful selections whose purpose, data, and omissions should be examined.
Every map deliberately deceives.
Coordinates eliminate human judgment.
Digital maps contain every feature.
Correct answer: A. Maps are useful selections whose purpose, data, and omissions should be examined.
A captures the passage's qualified argument.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 27, prepared in the official passage-based format.
To prove that geology is inaccurate
To show that commuters need no information
To illustrate that different purposes justify different selections
To argue that all maps should look identical
Correct answer: C. To illustrate that different purposes justify different selections
C follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 27, prepared in the official passage-based format.