PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-44 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 7): In the following given passage, certain words are highlighted which may or may not be fit in the sentence either grammatically or contextually. Each word is numbered followed by four possible replacements. If none of the given options could replace the highlighted word, mark your answer, (5); “No Replacement”.

 

With more Indians making payments using wallets and apps on smartphones, phone companies, with the technology to offer these services and above all the user base that is already using their handsets, are making a acute ...(1)... for the lucrative digital payments market.

 

After Samsung, now Xiaomi, Realme, and Oppo are ductile ...(2)... pre-loaded payment apps on their smart phones. Some of these support the widely used unified payments interface (UPI) platform allowing ...(3)... users to send money to friends or pay to merchants at retail outlets. One Plus is expected to join the club sometime this year.

 

Indian phone company Lava, yesterday, introduced a payment app, Lava Pay, which works with feature phones and does not require internet connectivity for payments. Phone companies with an already strong modest ....(4)... in the Indian market are well placed to make a foray into payments. In December 2019, there were 450 million smart phone users in India, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

 

A large base of captive customers provides phone companies a significant opportunity to offer native payment solutions with handsets. Convenient payment modes such as contactless, and unduly ...(5)... options across virtual cards, and UPI would definitely expatriate ...(6)... customers to use their phones for transactions given the catechist ...(7)... presence of a smart phone.

Question No : 1

(1) prescribe             

(2) corrupt                

(3) beeline                 

(4) warrant               

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 2

(1) offering

(2) prosaic                 

(3) ensue                   

(4) prone                   

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 3

(1) jubilant                

(2) cunning               

(3) aplomb                

(4) inchoate               

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 4

(1) diffident              

(2) suspect                

(3) footprint              

(4) desire                  

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 5

(1) prey                     

(2) attention              

(3) drift                     

(4) flexible                

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 6

(1) spur                     

(2) abate                   

(3) quite                    

(4) reflect                  

(5) No Replacement

Question No : 7

(1) procrastinate                                    

(2) identify                                            

(3) ubiquitous

(4) dictum

(5) No Replacement