PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-41 (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.

 

Two years later a gaunt …(1)… man with a long strangling beard, beautiful pale eyes that seemed to look right through this world into the next one, and skin the color of rusting metal, suddenly showed up in the village, wearing a long threadbare …(2)… woollen coat and a loosely tied black turban, with all his worldly goods tied up in a bundle like a common vagabond …(3)… and began preaching hellfire and damnation …(4)…. He spoke the language harshly, like a foreigner, like someone unused to speaking at all. The words seemed to be torn from his throat like pieces of rough skin, causing him much corporeal …(5)… pain. The villagers, like all the people of the valley, were unused to blood-and-thunder preachers of this type, but they gave him a hearing, because of the legends of their ancestors that were circulating in those days.

Question No : 1

(1) Haggard              

(2) Plump                  

(3) Cheerful              

(4) Portly                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) Frayed                 

(2) Dirty                   

(3) Sullied                 

(4) Unscrupulous      

(5) Deceitful

Question No : 3

(1) Inhabiting            

(2) Itinerant              

(3) Native                 

(4) Perpetual             

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) Happiness           

(2) Pre-occupation    

(3) Perdition             

(4) Fascination          

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Cerebral              

(2) Intangible            

(3) Phenomenal         

(4) Anatomical          

(5) None of these