PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-37 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): 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 fills the blanks appropriately.

 

Science and technology are not giving us only the positive side but it also has its disadvantages that truly affect human life. If we look around the surroundings, it is so …(1)…, polluted and damaged which is caused mainly by the existence of invented technologies throughout the world. Its …(2)… totally affects our mother earth and our natural environment is replaced by new big buildings and factories that are managed by technology-based owners. Science and technology also affect our health and lifestyles. Chemicals produced by technology are …(3)… to our health which will likely result in death and diseases. Technology-based persons are …(4)… because they are too dependent on it and don’t work anymore. People’s lifestyles changed. The traditional style of living is deleted and replaced by the modern style of living that destructs our culture and society. If we manipulated technology, then technology also manipulated us. The world is being run by high- tech machines and innovated equipment that people think it would give us good effects but rather it generally changed our whole life that we now forget the simple life that our ancestors left us. Science and technology allow us to finish works without any efforts. It is a bad …(5)… to us.

Question No : 1

(1) scatter                 

(2) crowded              

(3) disperse               

(4) vouch                  

(5) dissemble

Question No : 2

(1) drowned                                          

(2) existence                                           

(3) inanimateness

(4) abandon                                           

(5) prompt

Question No : 3

(1) protects               

(2) afferents              

(3) squanders            

(4) hazardous           

(5) certain

Question No : 4

(1) detest                  

(2) intent                   

(3) indolent               

(4) energetic             

(5) enthusiastic

Question No : 5

(1) incapacity            

(2) quixotic               

(3) meticulous           

(4) impotence            

(5) influence