PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-09 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following question, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the five alternatives given in the questions that follow.

 

…(A)… is a measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a period of time. It is very important factor in estimating the total income being produced in the country in a given year. It defines, if you will, the size of the cake. But there is a whole bunch of other …(B)… . After all, the size of the cake is only one part of the story. How that cake is divided into different groups of people, sectors, that is equally important. When you talk of jobless growth, the growth part is coming from the GDP estimate and the …(C)… part is coming from employment data. The GDP data are critical to know the pattern of growth you are seeing that is leading to the lack of jobs.

 

…(D)… is another big indicator. As a country, we have neglected employment data for far too long. It’s only in the last decade or so that we have started to say it is important, and finally got around to doing something about it only last year. The second, which is simply not produced, is the damage we are doing to our natural …(E)…. There is scattered data on forest cover, air pollution, water pollution, but you don’t have a measure of the state of our natural capital. Are you getting high-income growth but at the cost of the environment? Is that trade – off worth it?  The third is to know how income is distributed. Poverty measures, for instance, are important. Because they tell you, is this increase in income benefiting the poor?

Question No : 1

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labeled (A)?

(1) GDP          

(2) NDP          

(3) GNP          

(4) GATT        

(5) Growth

Question No : 2

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labeled (B)?

(1) Transport  

(2) Farming     

(3) Agriculture

(4) Employment          

(5) Rigorous

Question No : 3

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labeled (C)?

(1) Conscientious

(2) Obligation         

(3) Dutiful       

(4) Jobless       

(5) Joblessness

Question No : 4

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labeled (D)?

(1) Indicating

(2) Indicators    

(3) Indication  

(4) Indicator   

(5) Indicate

Question No : 5

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labeled (E)?

(1) Guanosine Diphosphate           

(2) Gross Double Product             

(3) Group of Dispersed Products  

(4) Gross Domestic Progression    

(5) Gross Domestic Product