PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-22 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 6): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers. Against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which would fill the blank appropriately. Mark the suitable word as the answer.

 

The two words ‘growth’ and ‘development’ are often used …(1)… in economic discussion. From the time, ‘development economics’ …(2)… as a distinct field of study after the World War II, it did not differ from growth economics. But, technically speaking, they are not the same.

 

To a layman, these two terms …(3)… to be synonymous. However, in the 1950s and 1960s, economists drew a line of demarcation between economic growth and economic development. Economic development is a broader …(4)… than economic growth. Development is taken to mean only quantitative expansion of an economy. Economic growth is, thus, quantitative while economic development is …(5)… . Experts suggest that growth involves focusing on height or weight while development focuses on the change in functional capacity.

 

Economic growth is defined in positive terms. It is …(6)… by the sustained increase in real, national or per capita income of a nation over time.

 

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question No : 1

(1) Traumatically                           

(2) Sensitively                                  

(3) Widening

(4) Understandingly   

(5) Interchangeably

Question No : 2

(1) Emerged   

(2) Appearing 

(3) Introduced

(4) Ongoing    

(5) Develop

Question No : 3

(1) Appear      

(2) Seems        

(3) Literally    

(4) Assume     

(5) Knows

Question No : 4

(1) Terms        

(2) Theories    

(3) Understand           

(4) Working    

(5) Concept

Question No : 5

(1) Qualitative

(2) Guides       

(3) Quantitative          

(4) Derogating

(5) promotional

Question No : 6

(1) Obtain       

(2) Enter         

(3) Demanded

(4) Calculate   

(5) Measured