Practice Cloze test - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
PASSAGE
It was a sudden decision. Three of us, all ___(1)___ in the hostel, decided to travel by train to ___(2)___ and witness the Republic Day Parade. The station was heavily ___(3)___ and there was a long queue before the ticket counter. ___(4)___ pretended sickness and persuaded the man nearest to the ___(5)___ to buy three more tickets – one for him and ___(6)___ for his sisters. No problem, therefore, in buying tickets. ___(7)___ train was already at the platform and there was ___(8)___ mad rush among the passengers to get on the coaches. Hari would not be worried by ___(9)___. He asked ___(10)___ to jump over the bumper between two coaches to get on to the other side.
Q-1) Choose the most appropriate word for blank (8).
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives
PASSAGE–I
Childhood is a time when there are ___(1)___ responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child ___(2)___ good parents, he is fed, looked ___(3)___ and loved, whatever he may do. It is improbable that he will ever again in his life ___(4)___ given so much without having to do anything ___(5)___ return. In addition, life is always ___(6)___ new things to the child. A child finds ___(7)___ in playing in the rain or in the snow. His first visit ___(8)___ the seaside is a marvellous adventure. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do as he wishes; he is continually being ___(9)___ not to do things or is being ___(10)___. His life is therefore not perfectly happy
Q-2) Fill the blank (5).
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in (Prep.)
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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
PASSAGE
It was a sudden decision. Three of us, all ___(1)___ in the hostel, decided to travel by train to ___(2)___ and witness the Republic Day Parade. The station was heavily ___(3)___ and there was a long queue before the ticket counter. ___(4)___ pretended sickness and persuaded the man nearest to the ___(5)___ to buy three more tickets – one for him and ___(6)___ for his sisters. No problem, therefore, in buying tickets. ___(7)___ train was already at the platform and there was ___(8)___ mad rush among the passengers to get on the coaches. Hari would not be worried by ___(9)___. He asked ___(10)___ to jump over the bumper between two coaches to get on to the other side.
Q-3) Choose the most appropriate word for blank (4).
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Hari (Noun)
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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
PASSAGE
It was a sudden decision. Three of us, all ___(1)___ in the hostel, decided to travel by train to ___(2)___ and witness the Republic Day Parade. The station was heavily ___(3)___ and there was a long queue before the ticket counter. ___(4)___ pretended sickness and persuaded the man nearest to the ___(5)___ to buy three more tickets – one for him and ___(6)___ for his sisters. No problem, therefore, in buying tickets. ___(7)___ train was already at the platform and there was ___(8)___ mad rush among the passengers to get on the coaches. Hari would not be worried by ___(9)___. He asked ___(10)___ to jump over the bumper between two coaches to get on to the other side.
Q-4) Choose the most appropriate word for blank (7).
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In each of the following passages there are blanks, each of which has been indicated as A, B, C to J. Choose the correct word from the given options which fits the blank appropriately.
PASSAGE
There is an old story told of a man who ___(A)___ into a deep sleep, His friend stayed by him as long as he ___(B)___. Being compelled to go and fearing that he might be in want, the friend hid a ___(C)___ in the old man's garment, When the old man ___(D)___, not ___(E)___ that his friend had ___(F)___ a jewel in his garment, he wandered about in ___(G)___, hungry. A long time afterwards, the two men met again. The friend told the poor man about the jewel and ___(H)___ him to look for it. Like the old man in the story, people ___(I)___ about in this life, ___(J)___ of what is hidden away in their inner nature, pure and untarnished.
Q-5) Fill the blanks with the help of alternatives given below.
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The major central banks' _____(1)_____negligent pursuit of positive but low inflation has become a dangerous _____(2)_____delusion. It is dangerous because the policies needed to achieve the objective could have unwanted side effects; and it is a delusion because there is currently no good reason to be pursuing the objective in the first place. In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly _____(3)_____adhere it. The lesson central bankers took from that battle was that low inflation is a necessary condition for sustained growth. But, subtly and over time, this lesson has _____(4)_____morphed into a belief that low inflation is also a sufficient condition for sustained growth. That change may have been due to the benign economic conditions that accompanied the period of disinflation from the late 1980s to 2007, commonly _____(5)_____suppress to as the "Great Moderation".
For central bankers, it was comforting to believe that they had reduced inflation by controlling demand, and that their policies had many beneficial side effects for the economy. After all, this was the demand-oriented _____(6)_____ refrain they had used to justify tight money to begin with. But then the world changed. From the late 1980s onward, low inflation was largely due to positive supply-side shocks – such as the Baby Boomer-fueled expansion of the labor force and the_____(7)_____hostility of many emerging countries into the global trading system. These forces boosted growth while lowering inflation. And monetary policy, far from restricting demand, was generally focused on preventing below-target inflation. As we now know, that led to a period of easy monetary conditions, which, together with financial deregulation and technological developments, _____(8)_____sowed the seeds of the 2007 financial crisis and the ensuing recession. The fundamental analytical error then – as it still is today – was a failure to _____(9)_____degrade between alternative sources of disinflation. The end of the Great _____(10)_____indulgence should have disabused policymakers of their belief that low inflation guarantees future economic stability. If anything, the opposite has been true. Having doubled down on their inflation targets, central banks have had to rely on an unprecedented array of untested policy instruments to achieve their goals.
Q-6) Identify the exact word for the blank (7)?
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integration – the action or process of integrating.
PASSAGE
The feeling of insecurity among the people has increased even though there is ____(1)____ use of the para-military and the military. The excesses ____(2)____ by the two forces, particularly by the first, do not ____(3)____ the type of anger it should because they are seen ____(4)____ those who are trying to disintegrate the country. Even a ____(5)____ for more say in the administration is shouted down. Human rights organisations and Civil liberty activists are considered a ____(6)____, if not unpatriotic. Even the ____(7)____ cases of cruelty are not pursued by the government ____(8)____ the inquiry should ____(9)____ the forces and ____(10)____ the instrument on which it has come to depend.
Q-7) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (3)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The major central banks' _____(1)_____negligent pursuit of positive but low inflation has become a dangerous _____(2)_____delusion. It is dangerous because the policies needed to achieve the objective could have unwanted side effects; and it is a delusion because there is currently no good reason to be pursuing the objective in the first place. In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly _____(3)_____adhere it. The lesson central bankers took from that battle was that low inflation is a necessary condition for sustained growth. But, subtly and over time, this lesson has _____(4)_____morphed into a belief that low inflation is also a sufficient condition for sustained growth. That change may have been due to the benign economic conditions that accompanied the period of disinflation from the late 1980s to 2007, commonly _____(5)_____suppress to as the "Great Moderation".
For central bankers, it was comforting to believe that they had reduced inflation by controlling demand, and that their policies had many beneficial side effects for the economy. After all, this was the demand-oriented _____(6)_____ refrain they had used to justify tight money to begin with. But then the world changed. From the late 1980s onward, low inflation was largely due to positive supply-side shocks – such as the Baby Boomer-fueled expansion of the labor force and the_____(7)_____hostility of many emerging countries into the global trading system. These forces boosted growth while lowering inflation. And monetary policy, far from restricting demand, was generally focused on preventing below-target inflation. As we now know, that led to a period of easy monetary conditions, which, together with financial deregulation and technological developments, _____(8)_____sowed the seeds of the 2007 financial crisis and the ensuing recession. The fundamental analytical error then – as it still is today – was a failure to _____(9)_____degrade between alternative sources of disinflation. The end of the Great _____(10)_____indulgence should have disabused policymakers of their belief that low inflation guarantees future economic stability. If anything, the opposite has been true. Having doubled down on their inflation targets, central banks have had to rely on an unprecedented array of untested policy instruments to achieve their goals.
Q-8) Identify the exact word for the blank (9)?
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distinguish – recognize or treat (someone or something) as different.
PASSAGE
The feeling of insecurity among the people has increased even though there is ____(1)____ use of the para-military and the military. The excesses ____(2)____ by the two forces, particularly by the first, do not ____(3)____ the type of anger it should because they are seen ____(4)____ those who are trying to disintegrate the country. Even a ____(5)____ for more say in the administration is shouted down. Human rights organisations and Civil liberty activists are considered a ____(6)____, if not unpatriotic. Even the ____(7)____ cases of cruelty are not pursued by the government ____(8)____ the inquiry should ____(9)____ the forces and ____(10)____ the instrument on which it has come to depend.
Q-9) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (5)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
When the European Central Bank's Governing Council met on December 14, there was little to surprise financial markets, because no policy changes could be _____(1)_____ from public remarks. The previous meeting, in late October, had already set the stage for the normalization of monetary policy, with the announcement that the ECB would halve its monthly asset purchases, from €60 billion ($71 billion) to €30 billion, beginning in January 2018.The motivation behind normalization does not appear to be the eurozone's inflation performance, which continues to _____(2)_____ the target of roughly 2% by an uncomfortable margin. Inflation expectations, while inching up recently, also appear anchored well below target, despite recent _____(3)_____ confidence readings. And the ECB's own forecast suggests that it does not _____(4)_____ that price growth will breach 2% anytime soon. What about the output gap? In step with the US Federal Reserve, the ECB _____(5)_____ its growth forecasts higher.
In that setting, R-star (the natural rate of interest) may be perceived as _____(6)_____ up, in line with output moving closer to _____(7)_____ across a broad swath of eurozone economies.Still, OECD estimates of the 2017 and 2018 output gap for most of the eurozone countries (Germany and Ireland are notable exceptions) suggest that there is slack, and in _____(8)_____ cases considerable slack. While German unemployment, now below 4%, is at its lowest level since _____(9)_____ , EU unemployment still hovers around 9%. Given this, it appears premature to view fears of eurozone overheating as the main driver of monetarypolicy normalization. Perhaps there are other motives for normalization that the ECB doesn't discuss publicly. Financial stability comes to mind. After all, the Fed does not forecast recessions, and the International Monetary Fund usually does not issue public _____(10)_____ on a country's odds of default. The silence reflects an understandable desire to avoid fueling a self-fulfilling process.
Q-10) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (3)?
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soaring – fly or rise high in the air.
PASSAGE
Architecture is a unique ____(1)____ of art and science that has ____(2)____ out of man's primary need for shelter. It is concerned with the design and ____(3)____ of buildings in their sociological, technological and environmental context. This field is not only ____(4)____ but also provides the ____(5)____ of designing and building pleasing and ____(6)____ refined struclures to serve various needs. ____(7)____ the fairly large number of practising architects . the countrywide ____(8)____ in the initial earnings in the field are relatively ____(9)____ what you make thereafter will depend enterely on your ____(10)____.
Q-11) Find the missing word for the blank (1)?
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PASSAGE
Architecture is a unique ____(1)____ of art and science that has ____(2)____ out of man's primary need for shelter. It is concerned with the design and ____(3)____ of buildings in their sociological, technological and environmental context. This field is not only ____(4)____ but also provides the ____(5)____ of designing and building pleasing and ____(6)____ refined struclures to serve various needs. ____(7)____ the fairly large number of practising architects . the countrywide ____(8)____ in the initial earnings in the field are relatively ____(9)____ what you make thereafter will depend enterely on your ____(10)____.
Q-12) Find the missing word for the blank (5)?
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PASSAGE
Paris – Nearly two years have passed since France's then-foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, struck his gavel and declared: "The Paris agreement for the climate is ___(1)___accepted." Next week, President Emmanuel Macron and the French government will host world leaders and non-state actors for the One Planet Summit. The purpose of this ___(2)___protecting is to celebrate climate gains made since 2015, and to boost political and economic support for meeting the goals and targets of the Paris agreement. The Paris climate agreement, a historic feat of diplomacy that ___(3)___adieus in a new era of international climate ___(4)___infringement, was facilitated by a number of political and social forces. One of the most ___(5)___influential of these was a group of more than 100 countries known as the "high ___(6)___satisfactioncoalition," which helped finalize the deal in the waning days of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). This ___(7)___conforming coalition of leaders – from the richest countries to the most ___(8)___conserve Pacific island states – broke a political ___(9)___deadlock that had impeded climate progress for years, if not decades. As we reflect on that success, one thing is abundantly clear: the need for ambitious coalitions has returned. Strong global leadership on climate change scored a diplomatic victory two years ago, and today, new economic and political alliances are needed to turn those ___(10)___assingments into action.
Q-13) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (1)?
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PASSAGE
Architecture is a unique ____(1)____ of art and science that has ____(2)____ out of man's primary need for shelter. It is concerned with the design and ____(3)____ of buildings in their sociological, technological and environmental context. This field is not only ____(4)____ but also provides the ____(5)____ of designing and building pleasing and ____(6)____ refined struclures to serve various needs. ____(7)____ the fairly large number of practising architects . the countrywide ____(8)____ in the initial earnings in the field are relatively ____(9)____ what you make thereafter will depend enterely on your ____(10)____.
Q-14) Find the missing word for the blank (6)?
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Architecture is a unique ____(1)____ of art and science that has ____(2)____ out of man's primary need for shelter. It is concerned with the design and ____(3)____ of buildings in their sociological, technological and environmental context. This field is not only ____(4)____ but also provides the ____(5)____ of designing and building pleasing and ____(6)____ refined struclures to serve various needs. ____(7)____ the fairly large number of practising architects . the countrywide ____(8)____ in the initial earnings in the field are relatively ____(9)____ what you make thereafter will depend enterely on your ____(10)____.
Q-15) Find the missing word for the blank (7)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Although John Wisdom's writings in philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a ____(1)____ originality. Despite the ____(2)____ and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom ____(3)____. He is a unique kind of genius in philosophy. This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom's repeated attempts to ____(4)____ the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is ____(5)____ interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel ____(6)____ to utter such strange sentences ____(e.g. "Time is unreal", There are no material things", etc)____. According to Wisdom, such sentences are both false ____(and perhaps meaningless)____ and yet ____(7)____. Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the "therapeutic" conception of philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where he emphasizes the analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress ____(8)____ them with other kinds of problems. The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller ____(9)____ with Wisdom's thought is referred to his famous article "Gods in Philosophy and Psycho-analysis". Other Minds is Wisdom's most ____(10)____ discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.
Q-16) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (6)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Although John Wisdom's writings in philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a ____(1)____ originality. Despite the ____(2)____ and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom ____(3)____. He is a unique kind of genius in philosophy. This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom's repeated attempts to ____(4)____ the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is ____(5)____ interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel ____(6)____ to utter such strange sentences ____(e.g. "Time is unreal", There are no material things", etc)____. According to Wisdom, such sentences are both false ____(and perhaps meaningless)____ and yet ____(7)____. Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the "therapeutic" conception of philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where he emphasizes the analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress ____(8)____ them with other kinds of problems. The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller ____(9)____ with Wisdom's thought is referred to his famous article "Gods in Philosophy and Psycho-analysis". Other Minds is Wisdom's most ____(10)____ discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.
Q-17) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (10)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Economic backwardness of a region is ____(1)____ by the co-existence of unutilized or underutilized ____(2)____on the one hand, and ____(3)____natural resources, on the other. Economic development essentially means a process of ____(4)____ change whereby the real per capita income of an economy ____(5)____ over a period of time. Then, a simple but meaningful question arises: what causes economic development? Or what makes a country developed? This question has absorbed the ____(6)____ of scholars of socio-economic change for decades. Going through the ____(7)____ history of developed countries like America, Russia and Japan, man is essentially found as ____(8)____ in the process of economic development. Japan, whose economy was ____(9)____ damaged from the ravages of the Second World War, is the clearest example of our time to ____(10)____ kingpin role in economic development.
Q-18) Which of the following words fits gap (10)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
The Government seems to be in right earnest to ensure more ____(1)____ in governance. The Prime Minister's announcement that his Government is ____(2)____ drafting legilsation to ____(3)____ the citizen's right to information is indeed welcome. Though the talk on the right to information is not new, we may ____(4)____ the bill to be brought early this time. The previous Government had set up a high-level committee to ____(5)____ a draft bill. But nothing has been heard about the matter since, ____(6)____ the committee did quite some work. The issue, however, has come to such a pass that a solution cannot be ____(7)____ further. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, a foreign judge once said, while ____(8)____ the unwarranted secrecy in an administrative system. When those in authority know that people have the right to ask questions and the government is under the ____(9)____ to provide them with answers, ____(10)____ of authority, or of public finances, for personal or party ends is less likely to happen.
Q-19) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (8)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
Q-20) Find the missing word for the blank (2)?
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