PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-62 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): In the following passage there are words highlighted in bold, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each, four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. If the word highlighted in bold does not require any replacement, choose (5) as your answer.

 

Technology, of course, is already making independent work a lot agile …(1)…. It puts workers into contact with customers and helps them run a back office. More importantly, it allows individuals to build and acquire …(2)… their reputations at low cost. Customers used to reckon …(3)… on a taxi company’s reputation, or choose a washing machine by the manufacturer’s brand. Now, each worker has a brand: On Uber, customers can reject drivers based …(4)… on their personal ratings. A firm’s collective reputation, with the secondary …(5)… control of its employees’ behaviour, is becoming gradually less important.That said, technology can also oblige …(6)… standard salaried employment. The economists George Baker and Thomas Hubbard, for example, have noted how onboard computers could change US trucking. By monitoring behavior, they would accomplish …(7)… a moral hazard problem: Drivers have little incentive to be as authentic …(8)… with company trucks as they would with their own. As a result, more drivers could become employees of companies that buy and maintain fleets, rather than going it alone. They wouldn’t have to invest …(9)… in their own vehicles; and they wouldn’t be out of pocket and out of work when their trucks drained …(10)… down.

Question No : 1

(1) radiant                                             

(2) possible                                            

(3) amicable

(4) easier                                                

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 2

(1) promote                                           

(2) procure                                             

(3) achieve

(4) instigate                                           

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 3

(1) anticipate                                          

(2) speculate                                          

(3) rely

(4) confer                                               

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 4

(1) inculcated                                         

(2) originated                                        

(3) determined

(4) enacted                

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 5

(1) concomitant                                      

(2) subservient                                       

(3) accessory

(4) additional                                         

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 6

(1) protect                                              

(2) recognize                                          

(3) favour

(4) acknowledge                                    

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 7

(1) execute                                             

(2) solve                                                 

(3) reckon

(4) negotiate                                          

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 8

(1) perceptive                                        

(2) unerring                                           

(3) discriminative

(4) careful                                              

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 9

(1) speculate                                          

(2) congregate                                       

(3) assail

(4) accredit                                            

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 10

(1) finished                                            

(2) beaten                                              

(3) broke

(4) failed                                                

(5) No improvement required