CLAT PAPER NO.4

 

Passage 4: Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the affluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded because the wrong idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realized that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where a man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterward live finely. it is a means of life, it concerns the living essence.

1. How have great books been written?

1. By men who think too much.
2. By great men who write them.
3. By an accidental means.
4. By men who imagine sometimes.

2. What does the words "effluence of their very core" mean?

1. Expression which is the outflow from the heart of the author.
2. Expression which is the influence from people's talk.
3. Expression of things that the author may have thought of.
4. Expression that the author wrote accidentally.

3. Literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been ______ into the actual life of the person who reads.

1. transfigured
2. transgressed
3. translated
4. transmuted

4. If a world is deprived of literature, what would happen to the broad, the noble and the generous?

1. They would worry themselves into petty issues.
2. They would be living a free life without care.
3. They would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded.
4. They would celebrate life.

5. What is the function of literature?

1. To raise everything so that it does not sink to the sea level.
2. To raise the plain above sea level.
3. To raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks.
4. To raise the peaks towards the highest mountain.

Writing section 

Present continuous 

Sub+is/am/are +v4+ob 

1.my orthodox neighbour is relying on  voo doo. Superstitions are lion in the path for progress.

2.my diligent brother is toiling to touch zenith of success .

3.the theist people are chanting hymn and psalm in edifice temple to appease God 

4.My cupid hubby is harrassing me for hefty dowry .i donot lodge an FIR against my cover in laws 

5.a quack/charlatan is rooking the docile people in the name of fabricated treatment 

Landmark judgement 

Sharad virdi chand versus state of Maharashtra 

Both the High Court and the trial Court rejected the theory of suicide and found that Manju was murdered by " her husband by administering her a strong dose of potassium cyanide and relied on the medical evidence as also that of the Chemical Examiner to show that it was a case of pore and simple homicide rather than that of suicide as alleged by tie defence. The High Court while confirming the judgment of the trial Court affirmed the death sentence and hence this appeal by special leave.

5. Before discussing the facts of the case, it may be mentioned that although the High Court and the trial Court have gone into meticulous and minutest matters pertaining to the circumstances leading to the alleged murder of Manju, yet after going through the judgments we feel that the facts of the case lie within a very narrow compass.