PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-39 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been alphabetized. These alphabets correspond to the question numbers. Against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which would fill the blank appropriately. Choose the suitable word as the answer.

 

There was an old owl that lived in an oak. Every day he …(A)… incidents happening around him. Yesterday he saw a boy …(B)… an old man to carry a heavy basket. Today he saw a girl shouting at her mother. The more he saw, the …(C)… he spoke. As he spoke less, he heard more. He heard people talking and telling stories. He heard a woman saying that an elephant jumped …(D)… a fence. He also heard a man saying that he had never made a mistake. The old owl had seen and heard a lot about what happened to people. Some became better and some became worse. But the old owl had become …(E)… every day.

Question No : 1

(A)

(1) notices        

(2) has              

(3) sees             

(4) witnessed   

(5) have

Question No : 2

(B)

(1) barring        

(2) helping        

(3) cascading    

(4) shouting      

(5) shielding

Question No : 3

(C)

(1) fewer                   

(2) lesser                   

(3) few                      

(4) less                      

(5) great

Question No : 4

(D)

(1) over            

(2) below          

(3) under          

(4) into             

(5) to

Question No : 5

(E)

(1) bigger         

(2) jealous         

(3) wiser           

(4) loathe          

(5) None of these