English Language || Para Summary Quiz || 26.06.2020 for CLAT UG Exams

Question 1

Direction: Which of the following best captures the essence of the paragraph?

If one were to think beyond the immediate fortunes and electoral outcomes, what does one make of small parties? There is an easy and romantically democratic approach to small parties that says the more the merrier and small is beautiful; that many small parties would mean much more effective representation of many small interests. The other, more guarded approach would be to be cautious about the fragmentation, not just of parties, but of the idea of representation and of public interest.

Question 2

Direction: Which of the following best captures the essence of the paragraph?

But the good news is quieter, and more durable: the relationship between the two nations has grown progressively closer over the past two decades: under three US presidents and three Indian prime ministers, representing the full range of both countries’ political spectrums. There will be ups and there will be downs; in international policy, there always are. But the warming trend in Indo-US relations is almost certain to continue—no matter who sits in the White House, or who comes calling at South Block.

Question 3

Direction: Four alternative summaries are given below each paragraph. Choose the option that best captures the summary of the text.

You seemed at first to take no notice of your school-fellows, or rather to set yourself against 'them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against others because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning, and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you; and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint.

1) The discomfort you felt with your school fellows was because both sides knew little of each other. You should not complain unless you find others prejudiced against you and have attempted to carefully analyze the faults you have observed in them.
2) The discomfort you felt with your school fellows was because both sides knew little of each other. Avoid prejudice and negative thoughts till you encounter bad behaviour from others, and then win them over by shunning the faults you have observed.
3) You encountered hardship amongst your school fellows because you did not know them well. You should learn to not make enemies because of your prejudices irrespective of their behaviour towards you.
4) You encountered hardship amongst your school fellows because you did not know them well. You should learn to not make enemies because of your prejudices unless they behave badly with you.

Question 4

Direction: Which of the following statements best concludes the paragraph?

A simple way to make a vaccine would be to grow vast numbers of the selected strains, inactivate them so that they cannot cause infection and combine them in a single preparation. Unfortunately, the strains that are selected tend to grow slowly in the laboratory and are thus difficult to mass-produce. To overcome this obstacle, scientists begin by basically inserting immune-stimulating proteins—hemagglutinin and neuraminidase—from the surface of selected strains into a form of influenza virus that will grow quickly in the lab. For each strain, they infect chick embryos with both the fast-growing and the chosen virus. Many of the virus particles made by the embryos grow rapidly but now display the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase spikes of the strains expected to cause this year’s epidemics. These high-growth re-assortments are then isolated and delivered to vaccine manufacturers, who mass-produce them in more chick embryos.

1. Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase are the best available immune stimulating proteins today and scientists worldwide rely on their effectiveness.
2. Mass production of the chosen strains becomes difficult due to their slow growth in the laboratory. To prepare for an epidemic outbreak, researchers and manufacturers are developing vaccines that can be produced rapidly.
3. When contemplating the prospects for flu drugs, observers might reasonably wonder whether the disease would be better controlled by a universal vaccine.

Question 5

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.

The Jain vegetarian diet is one of the most rigorous forms of spiritually motivated diet on the Indian subcontinent and beyond. The Jain cuisine is completely vegetarian and also excludes onions, potatoes, and garlic. Jain objections to the eating of meat, fish, and eggs are based on the principle of non-violence (ahimsa). Every act by which a person directly or indirectly supports killing or injury is seen as an act of violence (himsa), which creates harmful reaction karma. The aim of ahimsa is to prevent the accumulation of such karma.