PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-21 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 8): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the given alternatives.

 

The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the …(A)… (Skill) and judgement, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily …(B)… (understood), by considering in what manner it operates in some particular manufactures. It is commonly supposed to be carried furthest in some very …(C)… (minor) ones; not perhaps that it really is carried further in them than in others of more importance; but in those trifling manufactures which are …(D)… (meant) to supply the small wants of but a small number of people, the whole number of workmen must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the … (E)… (observer).

 

In those great manufactures, on the …(F)… (opposite), which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen, that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse. We can …(G)… (rarely) see more, at one time, than those employed in one single branch. Though in such manufactures, therefore, the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts, than in those of a more insignificant nature, the division is not near so …(H)… (obvious) and has accordingly been much less observed.

Question No : 1

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

(1) Malleability           

(2) Fecundity  

(3) Dexterity   

(4) Ferocity     

(5) Encumbrance

Question No : 2

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

(1) Comprehensive                        

(2) Compiled                                    

(3) Contrived 

(4) Apprehended        

(5) Extradited

Question No : 3

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

(1) Convivial   

(2) Intrusive    

(3) Palliative   

(4) Meticulous 

(5) Trifling

Question No : 4

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

(1) Destined    

(2) Distilled    

(3) Derived     

(4) Devolved  

(5) Derogated

Question No : 5

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

(1) Spectre      

(2) Wraith       

(3) illusion      

(4) Spectator   

(5) Silhouette

Question No : 6

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (F)?

(1) Contrast    

(2) Corollary   

(3) Contrary   

(4) Antithesis  

(5) Invert

Question No : 7

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (G)?

(1) Seldom      

(2) Beseech     

(3) Rarity        

(4) Render      

(5) Often

Question No : 8

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (H)?

(1) Alter          

(2) Manifest    

(3) Obvert       

(4) Contest      

(5) Subvert