PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-33 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

 

Many settler capitalist economies have had their economies based on a single or multiple set of ‘primary’ or resource industries, …(A)… from the US (North 1961), to Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Norway and many still do so, including oil-reliant states in the middle east and central Asia and mineral-reliant ones in Africa. Some of these countries have …(B)… from a staples base to a manufacturing or service one, but others have not, or have only partially done so. Originally, the staples thesis, as …(C)… by Canadian political economists, set out an export-led model of economic growth and attempted to show how regional natural resource abundance led to the autonomous demands for and …(D)… upon exports, their spreading effects (linkages) to the rest of the economy, and to technological changes. Staples theorists view Canadian political economy as having been …(E)… by the export of successive staples over the course of Canadian history from the earliest colonial times to the modern era.

Question No : 1

(A)

(1) ranging       

(2) covering      

(3) comprising  

(4) containing   

(5) starting

Question No : 2

(B)

(1) enhanced

(2) evolved       

(3) increased    

(4) promoted    

(5) expanded

Question No : 3

(C)

(1) invented     

(2) framed        

(3) thought       

(4) designed     

(5) developed

Question No : 4

(D)

(1) frustration

(2) co-dependence

(3) dependence

(4) dislike

(5) independence

Question No : 5

(E)

(1) shaped

(2) threatened

(3) fabricated

(4) manufactured

(5) shown