PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-34 (OLD 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, some words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

 

Sometimes, the leash follows the dog, but given the importance of control, the sequence can seem ...(1)... . It only matters that there remains a good hold over the circumstances. No matter then, that the Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) Bill, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet this week, came after the Surrogacy Bill that it should have ...(2).... Together, the ART Bill; the Surrogacy Bill; the amendment to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act; and the older Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act present a ...(3)... of legislation that will have a positive impact on the reproductive rights and choices of women in India. The ART Bill to regulate clinics offering ...(4)... treatments has been long in the works, and was first presented publicly way back in 2008. ART measures help couples unable to conceive naturally to bear children with the aid of state-of-the-art technology to achieve pregnancy, leading to safe delivery. India has a rich history of employing ART, though the initial years went officially ...(5)... at that time. In the late 1970s, only months after the birth of Louise Brown, the first ‘test tube baby’, Kolkata-based doctor Subhas Mukherjee announced the birth of the world’s second test tube baby.

Question No : 1

(1) Rejected               

(2) Conservative       

(3) Determined         

(4) Insignificant        

(5) Magnificent

Question No : 2

(1) Preceded             

(2) Annul                  

(3) Moment               

(4) Troubled             

(5) Forward

Question No : 3

(1) Impractical          

(2) Dissolve              

(3) Bouquet               

(4) Template             

(5) Efficient

Question No : 4

(1) Extravagant         

(2) Bewilder             

(3) Fertility               

(4) Definable             

(5) Disruption

Question No : 5

(1) Besieged              

(2) Harasses              

(3) Explanation         

(4) Confronted         

(5) Undocumented