CLAT UG question bank
CLAT UG English Language questions 167-190 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 queue looks like a simple rule: the first person to arrive is served first. Its apparent fairness depends, however, on what counts as arrival and whether everyone can wait in the same way. A numbered token may free people from standing, while a digital queue may disadvantage those without reliable phones. Priority for emergencies departs from strict order but can make the system more just. The rule therefore contains judgments about time, need, and access. Confusion grows when exceptions are invisible. A person called ahead may appear to have received favour even if the reason was urgent. Clear categories and explanations can preserve trust without disclosing private details. Fairness is not produced by order alone. A queue is credible when its rules are accessible, relevant exceptions are principled, and those affected can understand how decisions are made.
It always serves emergencies first.
It eliminates every waiting period.
Participation may depend on access to reliable technology.
Digital records cannot contain numbers.
Correct answer: C. Participation may depend on access to reliable technology.
C follows from the example of users without reliable phones.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 17, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Order and fairness always mean the same thing.
Urgency is never relevant.
All queues should remain secret.
A principled departure from arrival order may improve justice.
Correct answer: D. A principled departure from arrival order may improve justice.
D states the role of the emergency example.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 17, prepared in the official passage-based format.
By stating the applicable category without revealing private details
By refusing to acknowledge any exception
By publishing the person's medical history
By removing all priority rules
Correct answer: A. By stating the applicable category without revealing private details
A follows from the third paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 17, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Dismissive and sarcastic
Analytical and balanced
Celebratory and uncritical
Fearful and speculative
Correct answer: B. Analytical and balanced
B reflects the careful evaluation of rules and exceptions.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 17, prepared in the official passage-based format.
An institution sometimes apologises for harm caused decades earlier. Critics may dismiss the statement because present leaders did not commit the original act. That objection treats responsibility as if it belonged only to individuals. Institutions preserve names, property, authority, and benefits across generations. They may therefore inherit obligations to acknowledge how those advantages were obtained. An apology cannot reverse history, and words without material change may become ceremonial. Yet the limits of an apology do not make it meaningless. A precise statement can correct the public record, recognise those previously ignored, and create standards against which later conduct may be judged. The real question is not whether an apology can repair everything. It is whether the institution identifies the wrong honestly, accepts its continuing connection to it, and changes relevant practices.
Only individuals can bear responsibility for past harm.
Institutional apologies matter when honest acknowledgement is connected with changed practice.
Every apology fully repairs historical harm.
Present leaders must deny events they did not witness.
Correct answer: B. Institutional apologies matter when honest acknowledgement is connected with changed practice.
B captures the passage's qualified view of institutional apology.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Institutions can preserve benefits and authority across generations.
Current leaders are always personally guilty.
Historical records have no value.
An apology transfers property automatically.
Correct answer: A. Institutions can preserve benefits and authority across generations.
A follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
An apology should identify the wrong precisely.
Words may be inadequate without material change.
Acknowledgement can correct the public record.
An apology is worthless unless it can reverse history completely.
Correct answer: D. An apology is worthless unless it can reverse history completely.
D conflicts with the author's rejection of an all-or-nothing standard.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
To deny that harm occurred
To describe changes in property law
To explain what an apology can achieve despite its limits
To argue that later conduct cannot be assessed
Correct answer: C. To explain what an apology can achieve despite its limits
C accurately describes the paragraph's role.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Celebratory and emotional
Reflective and analytical
Mocking and dismissive
Entirely uncertain
Correct answer: B. Reflective and analytical
B reflects the passage's careful evaluation of responsibility and repair.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Navigation applications make unfamiliar journeys easier, but convenience can alter what users learn. A person following turn-by-turn instructions may reach the destination without forming a map of the route. This is not evidence that digital guidance weakens everyone. It may increase independence for people who would otherwise avoid travel, and it can provide useful information about traffic and accessibility. The relevant distinction is between assistance and substitution. A tool assists learning when it helps users notice landmarks, compare routes, or understand direction. It substitutes for learning when every decision is made without inviting attention to place. Good design need not force users to choose between convenience and skill. It can provide immediate guidance while also making the structure of a journey visible.
Proving that paper maps are always accurate
Showing that travel should remain difficult
Explaining how navigation tools can support convenience without replacing spatial learning
Arguing that traffic information is useless
Correct answer: C. Explaining how navigation tools can support convenience without replacing spatial learning
C captures the balance proposed in the passage.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
By removing every unfamiliar place
By preventing all route choices
By requiring users to memorise maps
By enabling journeys that some users might otherwise avoid
Correct answer: D. By enabling journeys that some users might otherwise avoid
D follows from the second paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
When it helps users notice landmarks and route structure
When it hides every alternative route
When it makes all decisions invisible
When it disables accessibility information
Correct answer: A. When it helps users notice landmarks and route structure
A applies the assistance side of the stated distinction.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Convenience and skill are necessarily opposed.
Digital guidance can be designed to reveal the structure of a journey.
Every user learns routes in the same way.
Turn-by-turn directions always reduce independence.
Correct answer: B. Digital guidance can be designed to reveal the structure of a journey.
B reflects the concluding proposal.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Using two tools together
Comparing several routes
Allowing the tool to replace the user's attention and decisions
Learning landmarks more carefully
Correct answer: C. Allowing the tool to replace the user's attention and decisions
C captures the meaning established by the contrast with assistance.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 18, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A minor numerical error in a research paper may appear harmless when it does not change the conclusion. Correcting it still matters. Readers rely not only on conclusions but also on the record from which those conclusions were drawn. Correction does not necessarily show that the research process failed. A visible amendment can demonstrate that the process includes scrutiny and revision. Concealing an error to preserve authority is more damaging than acknowledging it. Not every disagreement is an error. Researchers may reasonably choose different methods or interpret uncertain evidence differently. A correction should therefore state precisely what changed and whether the main finding was affected. Scientific credibility does not require an impossible absence of mistakes. It requires institutions that detect, explain, and learn from them.
Open and precise correction of errors can strengthen scientific credibility.
Every correction invalidates a study.
Only conclusions matter to readers.
Methodological disagreement is always an error.
Correct answer: A. Open and precise correction of errors can strengthen scientific credibility.
A captures the passage's argument about transparent correction.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
All numbers are legally binding.
Readers never examine methods.
The accuracy of the underlying record also matters.
Correction guarantees agreement.
Correct answer: C. The accuracy of the underlying record also matters.
C follows from the first paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Between public and private research
Between identifiable error and reasonable methodological disagreement
Between numbers and language
Between old and new institutions
Correct answer: B. Between identifiable error and reasonable methodological disagreement
B states the distinction made by the author.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Explaining whether a finding changed
Publishing a precise amendment
Examining the cause of an error
Hiding a mistake merely to preserve authority
Correct answer: D. Hiding a mistake merely to preserve authority
D conflicts directly with the passage.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Measured and constructive
Mocking and hostile
Entirely celebratory
Personal and nostalgic
Correct answer: A. Measured and constructive
A reflects the balanced discussion of error and credibility.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A conventional map shows how far places are from one another. For a commuter, distance may be less useful than time. A short route with frequent congestion can feel farther than a longer route served by a reliable train. Travel-time maps resize space according to the minutes required for a journey. They reveal access to jobs, hospitals, and schools in a way that physical distance alone may not. Such maps are not neutral mirrors. Their shape depends on the chosen hour, mode of transport, fares, and assumptions about walking or waiting. A map based on peak-hour trains may misrepresent travel at night. The value of a travel-time map lies in making one experience of access visible. Its limits should be stated so that a useful model is not mistaken for the whole territory.
Proving that distance has no meaning
Explaining the value and limits of maps based on travel time
Arguing that trains are always fastest
Replacing every physical map
Correct answer: B. Explaining the value and limits of maps based on travel time
B captures both the usefulness and limits discussed.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
It always costs less.
Distance changes during travel.
Maps remove roads.
Reliable transport may make the journey quicker.
Correct answer: D. Reliable transport may make the journey quicker.
D follows from the first paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
Hospitals close at night.
Physical distance disappears.
Transport frequency and waiting time may differ by hour.
Night journeys have no destination.
Correct answer: C. Transport frequency and waiting time may differ by hour.
C follows from the dependence of the model on time and service.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
They depend on selected assumptions and conditions.
They contain no factual information.
They must be drawn by commuters.
They intentionally deceive every reader.
Correct answer: A. They depend on selected assumptions and conditions.
A captures the author's point about modelling choices.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.
A useful map must represent every experience.
Models are valuable when their scope and limits are clear.
Travel time is identical for all users.
Only physical distance affects access.
Correct answer: B. Models are valuable when their scope and limits are clear.
B reflects the final paragraph.
Source note: Original LexMentor CLAT UG Batch 19, prepared in the official passage-based format.