CLAT 2011

'Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Monday, Sunday,...........'
Which of the following best fits in the blank?

‘387924, 3724, 423, 32, 2. Winch number is missing?

'Gym, hymn, lynx, pygmy, rhythm' which of the following words does not belong to the above set?

Aadvark, Eerie, iiwi, Oolong, Which of the following words follows the pattern of this series?

'China has a higher literacy rate than, India. This is due to the greater efficiency of the Communist system. Efficiency is sorely lacking in India's democratic system.
Therefore, democracy is the biggest obstacle to India's achieving 100% literacy'. Which of the following, if true, would directly undermine the above argument?

'In 399 BC a jury in Athens condemned Socrates to death for impiety and corrupting the morals of the youth. Socrates' friends offered to help him escape, but Socrates refused. Socrates argued that the fact that he had lived in Athens for so many years meant that he had committed himself to obeying its laws. It would therefore be wrong for him to break those very laws he was implicitly committed to obeying.'
Which one of the following claims constitutes the most plausible challenge to Socrates' argument?

'Soft drinks have been shown by scientists to be bad for the teeth. Therefore, the government would be justified in banning all soft drinks from the Indian market'.
Assuming that the factual claim in the above argument is true, what else needs to be assumed for the conclusion to follow?

'In order to be eligible for election lo the Lok Sabha, a person must be at least 25 years of age. Moreover, one must not be bankrupt. Therefore, Jatinder Singh, over
50 years of age and without any criminal convictions, cannot be the Speaker of the Lok Sabha since he has just filed for backruptcy.'
Which of the following must be assumed for the conclusion to follow logically?

'As a century draws to a close, people start behaving much like people coming to the end of a long life. People approaching death often start reflecting on the events of their lives. Similarly, people alive in 1999..........'
Which of the following most logically completes the paragraph above?

'The Roman poet and philosophy Lucretius proposed the following thought experiment. If the universe has boundary, we can throw a spear at this boundary. If the spear flies through, tin it is not a boundary. If the spear bounces back, there must something beyond this boundary that is itself in space, which means it is not a boundary at all. Either way, it turns out that the universe has no boundary.
How best can the form of Lucretius’! Argument for the infinity of space bf described?