PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-13 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 6): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

 

Mineral world lacks the ability to receive and process information, and thus is unable to express …(1)… or actions. In the plant kingdom, life is sensitive to external stimuli and they also react to those stimuli to some extent. However, plants lack the ability to process any information due to absence of mind and …(2)… . In the animal kingdom, presence of mind is visible as instincts and feelings. However, in the human world, both mind and intellect are very much developed. Human beings have the ability to process the information received from the environment and use their choices to act.

 

Expression of life in all entities, living or nonliving, is a mysterious phenomenon. The …(3)… of physical body, mind and intellect fail to express themselves in a dead person. It means that there is a life force …(4)… in the background, which makes these constituents alive or dead. This can be compared …(5)… an electric bulb. The bulb is dead when there is no electricity. Electricity is the invisible life force for all electrical appliances, which manifests as light in a bulb, heat in an oven, mechanical rotation in a fan, etc. Electricity is not …(6)… by any sense organs.

Question No : 1

(1) abrogate    

(2) feelings      

(3) perception 

(4) concurrence           

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) intellect     

(2) treacherous           

(3) provisional

(4) pertinent   

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) impediment           

(2) naysay       

(3) mischievous           

(4) constituents           

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) meddle      

(2) convoluted

(3) opacity      

(4) dissemination        

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) to   

(2) on  

(3) with           

(4) into

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

(1) procure      

(2) inordinately          

(3) predictability         

(4) perceivable

(5) None of these