cloze test section 9 Detailed Explanation And More Example

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

In ____(1)____ of constitutional guarantees relating to equality of opportunity and various other guarantees of equality before the law, the social and economic ____(2)____ of women, especially of poor women in India, is wellknown. We are referring mainly to the poor rural women who have little or no assets and who ____(3)____ the bulk of the female population in rural areas. It is not as if only poor rural women get less wages or suffer from social ____(4)____ because they belong to a particular community. Even at higher levels of the socioeconomic hierarchy among the well-to-do groups, women are not ____(5)____ to men. Among the economically ____(6)____ sections of society, women's proper place is ____(7)____ to be the home. In rural areas, women of ____(8)____ status families, normally do not go out to work. In the ____(9)____ value system, there is a gradation of economic activities, which is ____(10)____ in the socio-economic status of the family. Thus, if the women of the family do manual labour in the fields, it denotes low status. Women earning a living, or supplementing their family income through economic activities like stitching, garment-making, or some handicraft work, are also considered low because it clearly shows that their family is poor and they are forced to make ends meet. It is considered right and proper for a woman to cook, sew and take up activities like pickle-making for her own family. But, if she were to earn a wage through these same activities, it denotes poverty and also, often, low socio-economic status.