Cloze Test 1:
The study of accountancy is (1) in demand in the view of (2)
of greater complexity in our business organisation. Formerly a (3) of
day-to-day income and expenditure was more than (4). A business organisation
today has to (5) a clear account of the (6) it uses, the amounts
that are owing to it, the amount that it owes to others, the profit or loss it has
made and the (7) it employs. Without a scientific (8) of
accounting no businessman can be fully (9) of his real (10) position
and run his organisation.
1. 1) progressing 2) getting 3) powering 4) moving 5) growing
2. 1) demand 2) growth 3) status 4) position 5) slackness
3. 1) mixture 2) map 3) measure 4) record 5) transaction
4. 1) sufficient 2) anticipated 3) expected 4) required 5) necessary
5. 1) gather 2) observe 3) maintain 4) organize 5) assimilate
6. 1) manpower 2) infrastructure 3) money 4) resources 5)
capabilities
7. 1) capital 2) strength 3) authority 4) strategies 5) principles
8. 1) way 2) plan 3) system 4) goal 5) purpose
9. 1) ignorant 2) alert 3) prepared 4) vigilant 5) aware
10. 1) administrative 2) financial 3) capacity 4) business 5)
hierarchical
Cloze Test 2:
The first proposal I submitted for my dissertation at UCLA was to
write a theory of personality. My chairman, a kindly man, smiled (1) and
told me that perhaps this was a bit ambitious for a young graduate student. (2),
I accepted his verdict and changed my topic, but not my desire. It (3) later,
when I had a chance to begin to (4) a theory in my research on group
dynamics for the Navy during the Korean War. As I (5) on the reasons for
the persistence of my interest in the overarching theory, I had an (6) memory.
When I was around eight years old, I was a (7) baseball fan, as was my
father. My hero was Lou Gohrig. I would approach my father in an attempt to prove
to him how good Gohrig really was : “He hit 363, had 49 home runs, batted in
165 runs. He’s terrific!” My father’s response caught me off guard : “Yes, but he
can’t field.” I wasn’t prepared for that. From then on, my way of (8) with
my father’s responses was to make sure I knew everything about any topic I
wanted to talk to him about. Partly as a (9), I became a holist. I had
to make sure I had (10) for everything.
1. 1) usually 2) profusely 3) benignly 4) abruptly 5) decidedly
2. 1) Indolently 2) Skilfully 3) Enchanted 4) Constrained 5)
Chagrined
3. 1) lamented 2) resurfaced 3) appreciated 4) provided 5) projected
4. 1) inject 2) involve 3) exhibit 4) formulate 5) establish
5. 1) pondered 2) evaluated 3) developed 4) perfected 5) appreciated
6. 1) interesting 2) obvious 3) engulfing 4) esteemed 5) evolving
7. 1) precarious 2) haunting 3) deliberate 4) pervasive 5) rabid
8. 1) patience 2) alliance 3) influence 4) coping 5) questioning
9. 1) custom 2) capacity 3) defence 4) preference 5) posterity
10. 1) consideration 2) accounted 3) longing 4) regard 5) established
Cloze Test 3:
In the past, it was thought learning knowledge took place in
school and for some also in further education. Then it was a matter of (1) practical
skills at work at the beginning of a career, and with a bit of luck, that (2)
it. Now things have changed. Global competition is (3) the
shelf-life of products and the knowledge and skills that (4) behind
them. The pace of change can be (5). Knowledge that was leading edge at
one minute can become (6) the next. Therefore, it is the (7) rather
than knowledge that is the key. Successful organizations have to learn, adapt
and change continuously as do the (8) within them. This is (9) in
the rapid growth of knowledge workers. It is (10) all levels of
organisations.
1. 1) fostering 2) projecting 3) acquiring 4) manipulating 5)
culminating
2. 1) for 2) was 3) from 4) with 5) may
3. 1) replacing 2) retailing 3) rotating 4) re-regulating 5) reducing
4. 1) lie 2) profess 3) exhibit 4) manifest 5) express
5. 1) analytical 2) absorbing 3) interesting 4) frightening 5)
valuable
6. 1) critical 2) obsolete 3) modern 4) devastating 5) lamentable
7. 1) durability 2) reactivity 3) activity 4) proactivity 5) capacity
8. 1) systems 2) managements 3) processes 4) individuals 5) units
9. 1) echoed 2) supported 3) adjusted 4) provided 5) developed
10. 1) directing 2) providing 3) affecting 4) questioning 5)
projecting
Cloze Test 4:
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.
1. 1) support 2) spite 3) contrast 4) wake 5) view
2. 1) condition 2) prosperity 3) progress 4) deprivation 5) value
3. 1) constitute 2) deploy 3) measure 4) define 5) exploit
4. 1) status 2) service 3) indifference 4) ignorance 5)
discrimination
5. 1) dedicated 2) accountable 3) equal 4) responsible 5)
antagonistic
6. 1) marginal 2) significant 3) well-off 4) affordable 5) dependable
7. 1) entitled 2) decided 3) indicated 4) debated 5) considered
8. 1) economic 2) appropriate 3) ample 4) higher 5) social
9. 1) unequal 2) prevailing 3) appropriate 4) commendable 5)
deplorable
10. 1) reflected 2) exempted 3) barred 4) considered 5) neglected
ANSWERS:
Cloze Test 1
1. 5 2. 1 3. 4 4. 1 5. 3 6. 3 7. 1 8. 3 9. 5 10. 2
Cloze Test 2
1. 3 2. 1 3. 2 4. 4 5. 1 6. 1 7. 5 8. 4 9. 1 10. 2
Cloze Test 3
1. 3 2. 2 3. 5 4. 1 5. 4 6. 2 7. 4 8. 4 9. 1 10. 3
Cloze Test 4
1. 2 2. 1 3. 1 4. 5 5. 3 6. 3 7. 5 8. 4 9. 2 10. 1
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