CLAT Sample Paper UG-CLAT Mock Test-8 (2020)

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    Direction: Study the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
    Half of parents today think that their children are addicted to smart-phones and these parents are concerned about how mobile phones will affect their kids’' mental health. Each day, we hear that smartphones and social media are making our children particularly teenagers lazy, addicted, lonely and especially unable to function in the real world. Another study says that there is no compelling evidence that spending time online has a deleterious effect on teens'’ mental health. But, the reality is just an hour a day staring at a screen can be enough to make children more likely to be anxious or depressed. This could be making them less curious, less able to finish tasks, less emotionally stable and lowering their self-control.
    What is inferred about the teen agers using smartphones?

    A) They do not have deleterious effect of mental, health

    B) Their mental state would lose the functioning in real world

    C) The smartphones are making the teen agers more lonely

    D) a and c

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    (b)
    1. Inductive reasoning
    2. Inference
    3. Cause and Effect Analogy
    Using smartphones on each day basis are making our children particularly teenagers lazy, addicted, lonely and unable to function in the real world. The smartphones have more programmed fantasy utilities. So, it makes more unrealistic mind state than the realistic capabilities.


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