PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-47 (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 opposite to the word given in bold.

 

There were two unspoken clauses …(1)… in the understanding, one regarding the giving of love and the other concerning the withholding of it, codicils …(2)… that were sharply at odds with each other and impossible to reconcile …(3)… The result was, as Max had foreseen, trouble; the biggest Indo-American diplomatic rumpus …(4)… in history. But for a time the master forger was deceived by the forgery he had bought, deceived and satisfied, as content to possess it as an art collector who discovers a masterpiece concealed in a mound of garbage, as happy to keep it hidden from view as a collector who can’t resist buying what he knows to be stolen property. And that was how it came about that a faithless wife from the village began to influence, to complicate and even to shape, American diplomatic activity regarding the vexed …(5)… matter of the state.

Question No : 1

(1) Specification        

(2) Article                 

(3) Stipulation           

(4) Ultimatum           

(5) Whole

Question No : 2

(1) Foreword            

(2) Addendum          

(3) Postscript            

(4) Supplement         

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) Intercede             

(2) Propitiate            

(3) Attune                 

(4) Regulate              

(5) Agitate

Question No : 4

(1) Rumour               

(2) Furore                 

(3) Brawl                  

(4) Tranquillity         

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Unsettled            

(2) Contentious         

(3) Contempt            

(4) Unconcluded       

(5) Mollify