PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-64 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately.

 

Land degradation and desertification are some of the greatest environmental …(1)… for the world in light of climate change, rapidly growing population and increasing demand for food, fiber and biomass energy. But the problem of land degradation and desertification is …(2)… in Asia and Africa. UN agencies and the scientific community have been in a …(3)… discourse on identifying and generating empirical and scientific methods for monitoring, assessing and reporting the progresses on land degradation and desertification. Asia …(4)… almost 60 per cent of the world’s population. Of this, nearly 70 per cent live in rural areas and depend directly on land and land-based ecosystem services. As a result, Asia is most …(5)… affected by land degradation, desertification and drought in terms of the number of people.

Question No : 1

(1) Achievements      

(2) Hazard                                             

(3) Challenges           

(4) Avenues                                           

(5) Opportunities

Question No : 2

(1) Minimal               

(2) Bizarre                

(3) Trivial                 

(4) Subdue                

(5) Acute

Question No : 3

(1) Stagnant              

(2) Continuous

(3) Interrupted         

(4) Nominal              

(5) Superficial

Question No : 4

(1) Have                   

(2) Hold                    

(3) Has                      

(4) Holds                  

(5) Having

Question No : 5

(1) Severely              

(2) Significantly        

(3) Importantly         

(4) Exemplary           

(5) Positively