English Important Cloze Test Set 1 Asked in Various Exams for IPPB and IDBI

Cloze Test 1:

Trust is the basis of human relationship. As trust between people grows, (1) change and interpersonal dynamics are transformed. Diverse skills and abilities become (2) and appreciated as strengths. People begin to (3) one another’s attitudes and feelings. They learn to be (4) instead of playing roles. As trust grows the (5) that prevent (6) and openness lessen. People become more expressive, impulsive, frank and (7). Their communication is efficient and clear. They risk (8) and confrontation, opening the doors to deeper communication, involvement and commitment. Congestion and (9) lessen. The flow of data is open and (10).

1. 1) motivations 2) behaviours 3) patterns 4) aspirations 5) commitments

2. 1) obvious 2) necessary 3) essential 4) recognized 5) prominent

3. 1) accept 2) participate 3) pronounce 4) inculcate 5) relate

4. 1) advocates 2) possessed 3) exponents 4) indifferent 5) themselves

5. 1) seriousness 2) beliefs 3) barriers 4) masks 5) chains

6. 1) snobbery 2) egoism 3) brashness 4) boasting 5) candour

7. 1) projective 2) spontaneous 3) pious 4) cavaliers 5) callous

8. 1) conflict 2) persuasiveness 3) dedication 4) propensity 5) jealousy

9. 1) pervasiveness 2) boundaries 3) sluggishness 4) blocking 5) enthusiasm

10. 1) unanimous 2) uncritical 3) uninhabited 4) uncanny 5) unusual

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Cloze Test 2:

Although John Wisdom’s writings in philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a (1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom (3). He is a unique kind of genius in philosophy. This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom’s repeated attempts to (4) the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is (5) interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel (6) to utter such strange sentences (e.g. “Time is unreal”, There are no material things”, etc). According to Wisdom, such sentences are both false (and perhaps meaningless) and yet (7). Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the “therapeutic” conception of philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where he emphasizes the analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress (8) them with other kinds of problems. The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller (9) with Wisdom’s thought is referred to his famous article “Gods in Philosophy and Psycho-analysis”. Other Minds is Wisdom’s most (10) discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.

1. 1) concise 2) virtual 3) marked 4) limited 5) relative

2. 1) individuality 2) novelty 3) originality 4) complexity 5) creativity

3. 1) unprofitable 2) useful 3) advantageous 4) unreliable 5) durable

4. 1) jettison 2) delimit 3) augment 4) fortify 5) explore

5. 1) admirably 2) primarily 3) inadvertently 4) reluctantly 5) happily

6. 1) depressed 2) confined 3) alluded 4) compelled 5) adapted

7. 1) illuminating 2) damaging 3) confusing 4) critical 5) unreliable

8. 1) compelling 2) associating 3) contrasting 4) describing 5) advocating

9. 1) comparison 2) analysis 3) agreement 4) elaboration 5) acquaintance

10. 1) projected 2) sustained 3) prolonged 4) prolific 5) attributed

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Cloze Test 3:

The latest stage of the continuing (1) between India and the United States on the nuclear issue is now punctuated with pleasing diplomatic observations. Our latest round of talks with the American Deputy Secretary of State is “positive and encouraging”. The US Deputy Secretary of State remarked that “none of us are pleased to have any clouds over the (2)”. We in India know that these clouds have (3) towards the subcontinent from the West. The US can easily disperse the clouds if it wants. But the economic sanctions are still in place. The US is only (4) trying to come to terms with the fact that the nuclear weapons are not the (5) of the Permanent Members of the Security Council. If they do not recognize India as a nuclear power, then what is it that they are (6) to? India will not (7) by their de-recognising the nuclear tests. Both sides can happily close (8) eyes and agree to (9) what has happened. The fact that India is a sovereign nation, entitled to take decision beneficial for its own security, has not been altered by the tests. The US has come round to (10) that India has some say in this matter.

1. 1) adversaries 2) negotiations 3) strifes 4) strategies 5) disputes

2. 1) relationship 2) struggle 3) matter 4) talks 5) countries

3.1) formed 2) eclipsed 3) reined 4) covered 5) floated

4. 1) spontaneously 2) generously 3) grudgingly 4) gracefully 5) willingly

5. 1) threats 2) creations 3) properties 4) monopoly 5) possessions

6. 1) prepared 2) objecting 3) pointing 4) clinging 5) planning

7. 1) gain 2) differ 3) flourish 4) suffer 5) develop

8. 1) their 2) our 3) naked 4) inward 5) both

9. 1) imitate 2) undo 3) cherish 4) reiterate 5) ignore

10. 1) expecting 2) suspecting 3) accepting 4) advocating 5) rejecting

Cloze Test 4:

Economic backwardness of a region is (1) by the co-existence of unutilized or underutilized (2)on the one hand, and (3)natural resources, on the other. Economic development essentially means a process of (4) change whereby the real per capita income of an economy (5) over a period of time. Then, a simple but meaningful question arises: what causes economic development? Or what makes a country developed? This question has absorbed the (6) of scholars of socio-economic change for decades. Going through the (7) history of developed countries like America, Russia and Japan, man is essentially found as (8) in the process of economic development. Japan, whose economy was (9) damaged from the ravages of the Second World War, is the clearest example of our time to (10) kingpin role in economic development.

1. 1) developed 2) cured 3) improved 4) enhanced 5) characterised

2. 1) sources 2) finances 3) funds 4) manpower 5) industries

3. 1) exhaustive 2) unexploited 3) abundant 4) indefinite 5) unreliable

4. 1) upward 2) drastic 3) negligible 4) incredible 5) sudden

5. 1) diminishes 2) degenerates 3) increases 4) succumbs 5) stabilizes

6. 1) plans 2) attempts 3) attention 4) resources 5) strategy

7. 1) existing 2) glorious 3) ancient 4) economic 5) discouraging

8. 1) pivotal 2) neutral 3) insignificant 4) enchanted 5) vicious

9. 1) increasingly 2) always 3) gradually 4) deliberately 5) badly

10. 1) enlighten 2) validate 3) negate 4) underestimate 5) belittle

Passage 4

ANSWERS:

Cloze Test 1

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

Cloze Test 2

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

Cloze Test 3

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

Cloze Test 4

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