PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-61 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 8): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

 

WhatsApp had informed the Indian government in September that 121 Indian users were targeted by the Israeli spyware Pegasus, but the Information Technology Ministry has ...(1)... the information received from the messaging app earlier was inadequate and ...(2)..., according to sources.

 

Sources at WhatsApp said the messaging platform had now responded to the government’s query seeking an explanation on the spyware incident that allegedly ...(3)... on journalists and human rights activists across the world.

 

The Ministry sources said they had received a reply from WhatsApp and were studying it, and that a view on it would be taken soon.

 

While declining to comment on the details of the fresh response sent last week, sources in WhatsApp said the company had ...(4)... out to the government in September as well, its second alert on the issue after its communication in May. They said the Facebook owned company had in the September communication flagged that 121 users in India had been affected by the spyware.

 

The IT Ministry officials said they had received some communication from WhatsApp in the past but it was inadequate, incomplete and full of technical ...(5)... WhatsApp did not respond to queries over the matter.

 

The messaging giant, on Thursday, had said Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally ...(6)... by unnamed entities using an Israeli spyware Pegasus.

 

Government officials had questioned the “suspicious” timing of the disclosure of the hacking incident, particularly against the backdrop of the Supreme Court allowing the Centre three months to come up with rules to curb ...(7)... of social media in the country, and the continued demand for bringing in traceability of originators of ...(8)... content.

Question No : 1

(1) cajole                   

(2) contended           

(3) appease               

(4) pander                 

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) belligerent           

(2) warring               

(3) incomplete           

(4) internecine          

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) snooped              

(2) plot 

(3) schema                

(4) figure                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) dislodge              

(2) blaze                    

(3) reached               

(4) figure                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) chronic                

(2) jargon                  

(3) delay                   

(4) limit

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

(1) look after            

(2) spied upon          

(3) kneel down         

(4) scope                   

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

(1) misuse                 

(2) misfit                   

(3) foster                   

(4) deserves              

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

(1) requires               

(2) demands             

(3) malicious             

(4) gloomy                

(5) None of these