English Important Cloze Test Set 18 Asked in Various Exams for IPPB and IDBI

Cloze Test 1:

First aid experts stress that (1) what to do for an(2) victim until a doctor or other trained person gets  to the accident scene can (3) a life, especially in case  of stoppage of breathing, severe bleeding, and shock. People with special (4) problems, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, or allergy, are (5) to wear some sort of emblem identifying the problem, as a safeguard against administration of medication that might be injurious or even (6). When emergencies do occur, (7) first aid within the first few minutes often (8) life or death. (9) administering of first aid (10) medical professionals to provide better care.

1. 1) before 2) attempting 3) regarding 4) knowing 5) about

2. 1) injured 2) inquiring 3) efficient 4) important 5) accidental

3. 1) harm 2) comfort 3) take 4) soothe 5) save

4. 1) mental 2) ethical 3) medical 4) accident 5) moral

5. 1) prohibited 2) invited 3) compelled 4) allowed 5) urged

6. 1) appropriate 2) dangerous 3) beneficial 4) fatal 5) remedial

7. 1) expecting 2) providing 3) avoiding 4) ignoring 5) neglecting

8. 1) determines 2) offers 3) vanishes 4) reflects 5) begs

9. 1) Hasty 2) Careless 3) Proper 4) Probable 5) Reasonably

10. 1) resists 2) instigates 3) hinders 4) prevents 5) enables

Cloze Test 2:

New technology has led directly to (1) standards of living, yet science tends to follow market forces as well as to (2) them. It is not surprising that the rich get richer in a continuing cycle of (3) while the poorest are often left behind. A special (4) should be made by the powerhouses of world science to address the unmet challenges of the poor. Ending (5) poverty can relieve many of the pressures on the environment. When impoverished households are (6) (7) on their farms, for example, they face less pressure to cut down neighbouring forests in (8) of new farmland. Still, even as extreme poverty ends, we must not fuel prosperity with a lack of (9) for industrial pollution and the (10) burning of fossil fuels.

1. 1) visible 2) declining 3) improved 4) amicable 5) rigorous

2. 1) fail 2) claim 3) market 4) avoid 5) lead

3. 1) wealth 2) growth 3) poverty 4) improvement 5) economy

4. 1) effort 2) care 3) practice 4) occasion 5) sanction

5. 1) marginal 2) apparent 3) superficial 4) extreme 5) dismal

6. 1) abnormally 2) less 3) more 4) excessively 5) unreasonably

7. 1) efficient 2) meticulous 3) careful 4) dependent 5) productive

8. 1) view 2) search 3) expectation 4) lust 5) place

9. 1) attitude 2) mobility 3) initiative 4) concern 5) ease

10. 1) unchecked 2) repeated 3) periodical 4) occasional 5) limited

Cloze Test 3:

If an (1) is genius, he (2) the penalty of genius. If he has only talent, various cares and worries make life extremely (3). He takes great pains (4) compose. He meets with continuous (5) at his inability to reveal (6). Also he is often (7) with the difficulty of (8) the public ear. A literary life (9), therefore, mostly an unhappy (10).

1. 1) individual 2) ideal 3) invention 4) event 5) author

2. 1) tolerates 2) prevents 3) suffers 4) imposes 5) inflicts

3. 1) miserable 2) impatient 3) comfortable 4) happy 5) bearable

4. 1) about 2) with 3) in 4) to 5) and

5. 1) admiration 2) disappointment 3) disapproval 4) criticism 5) satisfaction

6. 1) public 2) them 3) himself 4) literature 5) others

7. 1) down 2) engaged 3) busy 4) leading 5) faced

8. 1) entering 2) sounding 3)awakening 4) gaining 5) listening

9. 1) is 2) governs 3) leads 4) begins 5) wishes

10. 1) thing 2) one 3) ending 4) event 5) incidence

Cloze Test 4:

The Indian Meteorological Department has sought permission to (1) a Doppler weather radar system - used for long-range weather forecasting. The Government had (2) the equipment in the wake of 26/7 and (3) to find a suitable location have been on (4) then. The key factor is that the radar’s antenna is to be installed in an (5) area of a few square kilometers far from highrises, (6) at an altitude. The radar would also need to be (7) near the coast as it would be used to (8) high-intensity storms or cyclones. MHCC has hinted it is willing to (9) clearance for the Colaba site, but only after (10) the location. It was after (11) around for locations across the city that the office proposed to locate the radar near the observatory. But the problem of finding a suitable site within the (12) still remains. The area is very congested. We will have to locate a site not only from the heritage (13) of view but also the radar needs to be at a height which is higher than all the buildings in the area. The naval residential buildings which are in the area are 13-14 storeys high. If at all it is to be set up at Colaba then it must be above the (14) structures so that signals reaching the antenna are not (15).

1. 1) detach 2) install 3) launch 4) fix 5) attach

2. 1) granted 2) realized 3) abstained 4) seen 5) sanctioned

3. 1) try 2) project 3) commission 4) efforts 5) worked

4. 1) since 2) until 3) already 4) at 5) for

5. 1) inseparable 2) encumbered 3) unencumbered 4) unpossessed 5) occupied

6. 1) hopelessly 2) hoping 3) enacting 4) preferably 5) undesirably

7. 1) erected 2) located 3) stalled 4) tied 5) build

8. 1) deduct 2) examine 3) feel 4) evaluate 5) detect

9. 1) advocate 2) launch 3) pass 4) grant 5) grand

10. 1) examining 2) study 3) scanning 4) combing 5) watching

11. 1) marching 2) chasing 3) scouting 4) pursuing 5) hunting

12. 1) campus 2) premises 3) area 4) perimeter 5) precinct

13. 1) site 2) point 3) angle 4) out 5) sight

14. 1) existing 2) enacted 3) demolished 4) planned 5) conceived

15. 1) stopped 2) hurdled 3) blocked 4) paused 5) halted

ANSWERS:

Cloze Test 1

1. 4 2. 1 3. 5 4. 3 5. 5 6. 4 7. 2 8. 1 9. 3 10. 5

Cloze Test 2

1. 3 2. 5 3. 2 4. 1 5. 5 6. 3 7. 5 8. 2 9. 4 10. 1

Cloze Test 3

1. 5 2. 3 3. 1 4. 4 5. 2 6. 3 7. 5 8. 4 9. 1 10. 2

Cloze Test 4

1. 2 2. 5 3. 4 4. 1 5. 3 6. 4 7. 2 8. 5 9. 4 10. 1 11. 3 12. 3 13. 2 14. 1 15. 3