PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-59 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the given passage several blanks are given and for each blank four alternatives are provided. Choose the option that can fill in the blanks to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. If none of the given options can fit the blank then choose option (5) ‘None of these’ as your answer.

 

In 1998, the Indian telecom sector was on its last legs. The experiment of allowing …(1)… private companies into the telecom sector, which had previously been the exclusive preserve …(2)… of the government, had come at a cost that was proving too great for them to bear. Though they had made tremendous …(3)… investments in rolling out brand new mobile telecom networks in the country, they were finding it hard to recover their costs. On top of that, they were each required—under the terms of their agreement with the government—to pay a crippling …(4)… licence fee, which, given their constrained means, was proving to be unsustainable …(5)… . They were staring down the barrel of bankruptcy.

Question No : 1

(1) Consideration     

(2) Humorous                                        

(3) Basics                  

(4) Allowing                                          

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) Preserve              

(2) Ugly                    

(3) Recalcitrant         

(4) Consent               

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) Allocated             

(2) Consideration     

(3) Tremendous        

(4) Basics                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) Harshen              

(2) Obligations          

(3) Crippling             

(4) Disavow              

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Precious               

(2) Severance            

(3) Tastes                  

(4) Unsustainable      

(5) None of these