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CLAT 2008Instructions: Read the given passage carefully and attempt the questions that follow and
shade the appropriate answer in the space provided for it on the OMR answer sheet.
My Love of Nature, goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my
grandparents' farm in Suffolk. My father was in the armed forces, so we were always
moving and didn't have a home base for any length of time, but I loved going there. I think
it was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone: she taught me the names
of wild flowers and got me interested in looking at the countryside, so it seemed obvious
to go on to do Zoology at University.
I didn't get my first camera until after I'd graduated, when I was due to go diving in
Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. My father
didn't know anything about photography, but he bought me an Exacta, which was really
quite a good camera for the time, and I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones
and starfish. I became keen very quickly, and learned how to develop and print; obviously
I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than
colour, but it was all still using the camera very much as a tool to record what I found
both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer
then, or even for some years afterwards.
Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I trained as a scientist and
therefore my way of expressing myself is very different. I've tried from the beginning to
produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who will alter
things deliberately: you don't pick up sea creatures from the middle of the shore and take
them down to attractive pools at the bottom of the shore without knowing you're doing it.
In so doing you're actually falsifying the sort of seaweeds they live on and so on, which
may seem unimportant, but it is actually changing the natural surroundings to make them
prettier. Unfortunately, many of the people who select pictures are looking for attractive
images and, at the end of the day, whether it's truthful or not doesn't really matter to them.
It's important to think about the animal first, and there are many occasions when I've
not taken a picture because it would have been too disturbing. Nothing is so important
that you have to get that shot; of course, there are cases when it would be very sad if you
didn't, but it's not the end of the world. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's
behaviour towards wild animals and it's a problem that more and more people are going to
wild places: while some animals may get used to cars, they won't get used to people
suddenly rushing up to them. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that here
are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, means that over the
years, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about
what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable
pastime, as it is to many people, it is also something that plays a very important part in
educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife
photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious - you just have to be prepared to sit it
out. I'm actually more patient now because I write more than ever before, and as long as
I've got a bit of paper and a pencil, I don't feel I'm wasting my time. And because I
photograph such a wide range of things, even if the main target doesn't appear I can
probably find something else to concentrate on instead.
1. The writer decided to go to university and study Zoology because
(a) she wanted to improve her life in the countryside
(b) she was persuaded to do so by her grandmother
(c) she was keen on the natural world
(d) She wanted to stop moving around all the time.
2. Why did she get her first camera?
(a) she needed to be able to look back at what she had seen
(b) she wanted to find out if she enjoyed photography
(c) her father thought it was a good idea for her to have one
(d) She wanted to learn how to use one and develop her own prints.
3. She did more black and white photography than colour because
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, (a) she did not like colour photograph
(b) she did not have a good camera
(c) she wanted quality photograph
(d) She didn't have much money in those days.
4. How is she different from some of the other wildlife photographers she meets?
(a) she tries to make her photographs as attractive as possible
(b) she takes photographs which record accurate natural conditions
(c) she likes to photograph plants as well as wildlife
(d) she knows the best places to find wildlife
5. Which does 'them' refer to in the 8th line in paragraph 3?
(a) sea creatures
(b) attractive pools
(c) seaweeds
(d) natural surroundings
6. What the writer means by ‘ignorance in people’s behaviour' is
(a) altering things deliberately
(b) people suddenly rushing up to animals
(c) people taking photographs of wild animals
(d) people not thinking about the animals in the first place
7. The writer now finds it more difficult to photograph wild animals because
(a) there are fewer of them
(b) they have become more nervous of people
(c) it is harder to find suitable places
(d) they have become frightened of cars
8. Wildlife photography is important because it can make people realise that
(a) photography is an enjoyable hobby
(b) we learn little about wildlife at school
(c) it is worthwhile visiting the countryside
(d) wildlife photographs educate people about wild animals
9. Why is she more patient now?
(a) she does other things while waiting
(b) she has got used to waiting
(c) she can concentrate better than she used to
(d) she knows the result will be worth it
10. Which of the following describes the writer?
(a) proud
(b) sensitive
(c) aggressive
(d) disappointed
Instructions: Three of the four words given below are spelt wrongly. Select the
word that is spelt correctly and shade the appropriate answer in the space
provided for it on the OMR answer sheet.
11. (a) acquintence
(b) acquaintence
(c) acquaintance
(d) acquintance
12. (a) neglegense
(b) neglegence
(c) negligance
(d) negligence
13. (a) grevance
(b) greivance
(c) grievance
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, (d) grievence
14. (a) heirarchical
(b) hierarchical
(c) hiererchical
(d) heirerchical
15. (a) garanter
(b) garantor
(c) guaranter
(d) guarantor
Instructions: Select the best option from the four alternatives given and
shade the appropriate answer in the space provided for it on the OMR answer
sheet.
16. They live on a busy road. ____ a lot of noise from the traffic.
(a) It must be
(b) It must have
(c) There must have
(d) There must be
17. The more electricity you use,
(a) your bill will be higher
(b) will be higher your bill
(c) the higher your bill will be
(d) higher your bill will be
18. Ben likes walking. _
(a) Every morning he walks to work
(b) He walks to work every morning
(c) He walks every morning to work
(d) He every morning walks to work
19. Its two years _ Sophy.
(a) that I don't see
(b) that I haven't seen
(c) since I didn't see
(d) since I last saw
20. What was the problem? Why _______leave early?
(a) have you to
(b) did you have to
(c) must you
(d) you had to
21. Nobody believed Arun at first, but he to be right.
(a) worked out
(b) came out
(c) found out
(d) turned out
22. We can’t making a decision. We have to decide now.
(a) put away
(b) put over
(c) put off
(d) put out
23. The accident was my fault, so I had to pay for the damage the other car.
(a) of
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, (b) for
(c) to
(d) on
24. I really object people smoking in my house.
(a) to
(b) about
(c) for
(d) on
25. A contract may be if the court finds there has been misinterpretation of the
facts.
(a) restrained
(b) rescinded
(c) compelled
(d) conferred
Instructions: The five paragraphs given below have all had their constituent
sentences jumbled. Read each jumbled passage carefully and then pick the
option in which the best sequence is shown and shade the appropriate answer
in the space provided for it on the OMR answer sheet.
26. UNIT I
(i) The Supertag scanner could revolutionise the way people shop, virtually
eradicating supermarket queues.
(ii) The face of retailing will change even more rapidly when the fibre optic
networks being built by cable TV companies begin to be more widely
used.
(iii) The scanner would have a double benefit for supermarkets removing the
bottleneck which causes frustration to most customers and reducing the
number of checkout staff.
(iv) An electronic scanner which can read the entire contents of a supermarket
trolley at a glance has just been developed.
The best sequence is:
(a) ii, i, iii, iv
(b) iv, i, iii, ii
(c) iv, iii, ii, i
(d) iii, i, iv, ii
27. UNIT II
(i) Of course, modern postal services now are much more sophisticated and
faster, relying as they do on motor vehicles and planes for delivery.
(ii) Indeed, the ancient Egyptians had a system for sending letters from about
2000 BC, as did the Zhou dynasty in China a thousand years later.
(iii) Letters, were, and are, sent by some form of postal service, the history of
which goes back a long way.
(iv) For centuries, the only form of written correspondence was the letter. The
best sequence is:
(a) ii, i, iii, iv
(b) iv, i, iii, ii
(c) iv, iii, ii, i
(d) iii, i, iv, ii
28. UNIT III
(i) Converting money into several currencies in the course of one trip can
also be quite expensive, given that banks and bureaux de change charge
commission on the transaction.
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