PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-29 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the passage given below, certain words are maintained in bold. Choose among the given alternatives, the option which is most similar to the word given in bold.

 

“We have to inoculate …(1)… against that, we have to be prepared for that.” Pelosi said during an interview on Wednesday as she discussed her concern that Trump would not give up power voluntarily …(2)… if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year.

 

Pelosi the de facto …(3)… head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected by in 2020- offered Democrats her “coldblooded” plan for ridding themselves of Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted …(4)… impeachment bid that will get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018by drifting too far to the Left. “Own the centre left, own the mainstream”, Pelosi said.

 

Nearly five months to her second speakership, Pelosi appeared to be embracing her role as the only Democrat with the power to oppose Trump. While she seems comfortable in waging …(5)… battle with him, her unease about the president’s behaviour has only intensified since the Democrats’ triumphal election.

Question No : 1

(1) Inject         

(2) Disabuse    

(3) Disabuse    

(4) Divest        

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) In volunteer          

(2) Volunteer  

(3) Involuntarily         

(4) Volition     

(5) Deliberately

Question No : 3

(1) Factual       

(2) De jure      

(3) Theoretical

(4) Chimerical 

(5) Illusory

Question No : 4

(1) Curtail       

(2) Shorten      

(3) Ephemeral 

(4) Interminable          

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Prosecuting           

(2) Executing  

(3) Whiffing    

(4) Neglecting 

(5) Failing