PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-63 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage against each alphabet four words are suggested in bold that may or may not fit into the sentence contextually. These alphabets are given below the passage and against each, five options are given. Find out the most appropriate option reflecting the word which doesn’t fit into the sentence appropriately and thus fail to give a contextual meaning to the paragraph. If no such error is there, mark (5) i.e., ‘All are correct’ as your answer choice.

 

…(A)… It may not have been a case of flattering to deceive, yet the accretion by farmers in the northern part of the country, which fizzled out at Kisan Ghat on Wednesday, did not yield the bumper crop they had expected which generally holds true of similar agitations in different parts of the country in recent months. …(B)… Is that because the farm sector is not in as dire straits as the Opposition projects, or that Anna Hazare, Naresh Tikait, etc are unable to stir up rural emotions as did Chaudhary Charan Singh or the senior Tikait? Or it could be that farmers have become immune to politicians’ promises that seldom materialise? It’s used to be said that India’s heart beats in its farmlands, that no longer holds true. …(C)… And it would be rather pragmatic to lay the blame entirely at the BJP’s doorstep: other parties have also been indifferent, hypocritical. Sure that when the police uses force (excessive force?) to break up farmers’ protest there is a hue and cry, but the Opposition subsequently fights shy of addressing the core causes of rural distress. …(D)… In terms of sheer numbers the rural vote does count, but politicians seem to believe that it is easier to garden electoral majorities by the divisive polarisation that is easier to secure in an urban ambience the “rustics” are not so easily swayed by those pitting folk against each other on the basis of caste and creed. …(E)… The Delhi Police, possibly under instructions tried to block the layoffs on the UP-Delhi border: but its once-famed capacity to handle large crowds crumbled when some of the farmers turned violent after all Delhi was the National Capital and nobody has monopoly rights and received considerable political backing.

Question No : 1

Which of the following words is not appropriate in Sentence (A)?

(1) deceive       

(2) accretion     

(3) fizzled         

(4) bumper       

(5) All are correct

Question No : 2

Which of the following words is not appropriate in Sentence (B)?

(1) straits                  

(2) unable                 

(3) immune               

(4) seldom                

(5) All are correct

Question No : 3

Which of the following words is not appropriate in Sentence (C)?

(1) pragmatic            

(2) hypocritical         

(3) protest                 

(4) subsequently       

(5) All are correct

Question No : 4

Which of the following words is not appropriate in Sentence (D)?

(1) garden                 

(2) ambience             

(3) swayed                

(4) pitting                 

(5) All are correct

Question No : 5

Which of the following words is not appropriate in Sentence (E)?

(1) layoffs                 

(2) crumbled             

(3) monopoly            

(4) backing                

(5) All are correct