cloze test Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Direction:

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

After ten years of ____(1)____ inflation, prices have hiked 7.5% in the third week of July. This looks scary—after all, Indians had got used to prices crawling up by 2% in the last two years, and a 10-year average inflation rate of about 5%—but you shouldn't worry. This burst of inflation is the result of three factors that have come together unexpectedly, are unlikely to ____(2)____ for long and are unlikely to ____(3)____ up together again: a____(n)____ ____(4)____ rise in global oil prices, a monsoon that arrived late and a spike in global metal prices. North Sea crude has crossed $42 per barrel, driven up by low petroleum ____(5)____ and soaring demand in the US as war production heats up. Oil markets are also spooked by the ____(6)____ of Russian oil supplies falling on the back of the YukosSibneft probe. There's little that the government can do to ____(7)____ users from soaring oil prices—indeed, it shouldn't, if it wants to ____(8)____ efficiency. Higher transport costs have pushed up rates of vegetables and fruits. Farm produce could also get affected by rains that arrived too late for kharif sowing. China is ____(9)____ up steel and other metals from all over the world to ____(10)____ a construction boom ahead of the 2008 Olympics, making metal prices soar all over the world, and sparking inflation in India.