cloze test section 12 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

A good percentage of the population of India is tribal. The tribals live in the hills and forests of the country and have been little ____(1)____ by the ____(2)____ currents of the plains. Practically all the states of India have their tribal population. The tribes are numerous, computed to be about 200, some living in ____(3)____ regions in dense forests, and others on the borders of villages. Some tribes are ____(4)____ to a few souls, while others like the Santhals, run into millions and are steadily ____(5)____ in numbers. During the British period some of them were known as 'criminal tribes' for they showed ____(6)____ respect for the Indian Penal Code. After independence they have been named Scheduled Tribes. Under modern conditions isolation, however, has become ____(7)____ and the hill tribes are getting ____(8)____. The cultural traffic is twoway. Social reformers are taking civilization to the hills, and the tribes, ____(9)____ their old occupations of hunting and ____(10)____ farming, are settling in villages, towns and cities as labourers and industrial workers.