PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-23 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In each of the questions given below, 5 blanks are left out labeled with (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). You have to choose the words that are correct grammatically and contextually in order to fill the blank. If the word is grammatically suitable, mark option (5) as your answer.

 

New research has …(1)… (revealed ) that if you want to burn more energy then it helps to have more brown fat, which typically is found close to the nervous system, up to the spine, around the throat and near the kidneys. A lot of research has been done on white fat and its relationship to health and disease but researchers are increasingly …(2)… (affecting) on the health benefits of brown fat. Human body has white fat on a few organs like stomach, hips and thighs. Infants have far more brown fat than an adult as it plays an important role in helping them stay warm.

 

White and brown fat both secrete proteins that send signals to the rest of the body. Now, for the first time ever, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have …(3)… (craving) all the proteins that are secreted from adult human white and brown fat cells. What they …(4)… (invented) is that the two types of fat tissue send very different signals to the rest of the body. “It’s the first time that anyone has studied human brown fat at this level of detail. We have mapped all of the proteins that are secreted from the fat cells and that they use to communicate with other cells. And there are big differences between them. It’s as though they speak very different languages,” said Associate Professor Camilla Scheele from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR). The proteins were mapped in …(5)… (collaboration) with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research using a technology called mass spectrometry, reported the study published in-Cell Metabolism.

Question No : 1

(1) attending   

(2) perplexed  

(3) speaking    

(4) announcing

(5) No change required

Question No : 2

(1) focusing     

(2) connivance

(3) fragmented           

(4) dubious     

(5) No change required

Question No : 3

(1) mapped     

(2) uphold       

(3) sanctify      

(4) illustrative 

(5) No change required

Question No : 4

(1) proclaim    

(2) discover    

(3) integrated 

(4) cohesive    

(5) No change required

Question No : 5

(1) grouping   

(2) conjecture  

(3) congregate

(4) conglomerate        

(5) No change required