Cloze Test 1:
Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These
branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may
go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) in
other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has
changed– the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and
credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank
branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system–after all a person needs
a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may
be about to change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new
architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7).
Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate
the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones are
spreading at a (9) rate and in India alone new cell phone connections are
growing at the rate of six million a month–a rate of customer (10) that
no bank can dream of.
1. 1) knowledge 2) security 3) presence 4) confidentiality 5)
guarantee
2. 1) negotiate 2) advance 3) credit 4) disburse 5) sanction
3. 1) pursue 2) interact 3) operate 4) enable 5) engage
4. 1) drawback 2) hurdle 3) consequence 4) luxury 5) innovation
5. 1) Despite 2) Although 3) Even 4) Yet 5) Until
6. 1) view 2) realize 3) display 4) engineer 5) assess
7. 1) essential 2) obsolete 3) extant 4) retreat 5) expired
8. 1) moderately 2) occasionally 3) compulsorily 4) indiscriminately 5)
effectively
9. 1) phenomenal 2) gradual 3) proportionate 4) competitive 5)
projected
10. 1) discount 2) base 3) expansion 4) satisfaction 5) relationship
Cloze Test 2:
Our company has set up a foundation which is (1) to
spreading literacy. To (2) this cause the foundation has a
project called ‘A Library for Every School’ through (3) the foundation
donates books mainly to government school libraries so that children
have easy (4) to books on a variety of subjects. In my (5) as
Chairperson of the Foundation I travel (6) in rural areas. All
this travelling has (7) me to understand what children want to
read in different parts of the country. (8) my travels I
frequently stay in the houses of people I meet as (9) there are no
hotels in small towns and villages that I visit. In India a guest is
always treated well; an old Sanskrit saying is Atithi Devo Bhava (10)
that God comes in the form of a guest.
1. 1) dedicated 2) responsible 3) trying 4) catered 5) involved
2. 1) awaken 2) further 3) aim 4) contribute 5) perform
3. 1) those 2) which 3) whom 4) where 5) these
4. 1) opportunity 2) admission 3) purchase 4) access 5) contact
5. 1) feeling 2) decision 3) role 4) knowledge 5) order
6. 1) extensively 2) somehow 3) extremely 4) hastily 5) sometime
7. 1) ensured 2) provided 3) enabled 4) deprived 5) made
8. 1) During 2) Since 3) From 4) Through 5) Besides
9. 1) while 2) usual 3) neither 4) often 5) either
10. 1) threatens 2) meaning 3) fearing 4) imply 5) naturally
Cloze Test 3:
Can an experiment conceived, carried out, and reported in
kids-speak with pencil coloured figures and hand-written tables by school
children aged 8 to 10 years get published in a highly rated international journal
following a peer-reviewing process? Twentyseven schoolchildren from a primary
school in UK have proved this is (1) — if a simple but novel scientific question
raised is (2) in a scientific way. Their paper was published in the
Royal Society’s Biology Letters journal. Their (3) was that bumble-bees can
use a “combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour
of flower to forage from.” Considering that our understanding of how bees
perceive coloured patterns and scenes is inadequate, this inspiring outcome has
shown that schoolchildren guided by gifted teachers can think and (4) out
experiments like any hard-wired scientist. For these kids, doing science
changed their (5) of the subject. Science also became “cool and fun.”
This refreshing approach turns the spotlight on the best methods of teaching
science. The (6) learning system adopted by most schools in India, even
classroom study combined with some laboratory work with pre-defined outcomes,
does very little to (7) curiosity and interest in science. Is that one
of the (8) why out-of-the-box thinking that produces path-breaking
science rarely comes out of Indian laboratories? The children at the UK school
had their gifted teacher to guide them. Scientists from India’s space and
atomic energy departments and in some other places where serious science is
done can take (a/an) (9) out of the school’s book and (10) the
way in engaging with school pupils and getting them to do real science.
1. 1) done 2) unlikely 3) potential 4) promising 5) possible
2. 1) questioned 2) said 3) retorted 4) answered 5) address
3. 1) question 2) finding 3) methodology 4) result 5) studies
4. 1) wage 2) create 3) execute 4) carry 5) attempt
5. 1) option 2) lives 3) visual 4) demands 5) perception
6. 1) revolutionary 2) radical 3) rote 4) adequate 5) bore
7. 1) stimulate 2) simulate 3) make 4) peek 5) judge
8. 1) cause 2) root 3) reasons 4) issues 5) sources
9. 1) thread 2) leaf 3) example 4) look 5) pages
10. 1) lead 2) start 3) deliver 4) paved 5) ahead
Cloze Test 4:
Does Indian industry need democracy? The Indian economy’s
sustained growth today is (1) by incomplete democracy. While millions of
Indians endure poverty, only a tiny majority (2) prosperity. On the
other hand, many Latin American countries have registered (3) growth rates
under military dictators and today one of the fastest growing economies in the
world — China — has an (4) rather than a democratic government. So why
does India need democracy for sustained growth? To many, democracy (5) slower
decisionmaking with corrupt politicians and red-tapeism etc. Industry should
therefore be (6) with less, not more, democracy. However, while China (7)
consumption in order to save and invest more than half its output to produce
10% growth, India (8) almost two-thirds of its output and manages to
achieve 9% growth from one-third of its output. (9) India’s democracy is
not inefficient when it comes to making (10) use of resources.
1. 1) deprived 2) hampered 3) eliminated 4) faced 5) threaten
2. 1) pursuit 2) acquisition 3) benefit 4) enjoy 5) value
3. 1) acceptable 2) insignificant 3) variable 4) inflated 5)
affordable
4. 1) autonomous 2) economical 3) authoritarian 4) egalitarian 5)
orthodox
5. 1) imply 2) mentions 3) attracts 4) features 5) means
6. 1) gracious 2) adapted 3) fascinated 4) pleased 5) urged
7. 1) bans 2) curtails 3) regulate 4) ceases 5) discourage
8. 1) consumes 2) selects 3) indulges 4) disperse 5) hoard
9. 1) Accordingly 2) Totally 3) Thus 4) Even 5) Likely
10. 1) ultimately 2) capably 3) modest 4) secure 5) effective
ANSWERS:
Cloze Test 1
1. 3 2. 1 3. 5 4. 5 5. 4 6. 1 7. 2 8. 5 9. 1 10. 3
Cloze Test 2
1. 1 2. 2 3. 2 4. 4 5. 3 6. 1 7. 3 8. 1 9. 4 10. 2
Cloze Test 3
1. 5 2. 4 3. 2 4. 4 5. 5 6. 3 7. 1 8. 3 9. 5 10. 4
Cloze Test 4
1. 2 2. 4 3. 1 4. 3 5. 5 6. 4 7. 2 8. 1 9. 3 10. 5
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