cloze test section 15 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Directions:

In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fills the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Fourteen centuries ago when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was .....(1).... about his people. A new game of dice, called hard, had ...(2) the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the ...(3) of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their ...(4) in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was ...(5) the spirit of the kingdom.

Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courtier at his court to find an answer to this ...(6) After much ...(7) the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact ...(8) of hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces. In the game these pieces-chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers-joined with a royal counselor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful ...(9) was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than hard, and the ...(10) to the Kingdom was over