PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-67 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers. Against each question, five words have been suggested, four of which can fill each blank appropriately. Find the word that cannot fill the blank appropriately.

The …(1)… of the teaching of science imagined that its introduction into education would remove the conventionality, artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic; of classical studies, but they were …(2)… disappointed. So, too, in their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical authors in the original would banish at once the dull …(3)… and superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost managed to make the understanding of chemical …(4)… as dull and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid. The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is living, in making him …(5)… with the results of scientific discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited success has been reached in the first of these aims, but practically none at all in the second.

Find the inappropriate word in each case.

Question No : 1

(1) Colonists             

(2) Pioneers              

(3) Trailblazers         

(4) Developers          

(5) Instigators

Question No : 2

(1) Gravely

(2) Seriously             

(3) Critically             

(4) Badly                   

(5) Casually

Question No : 3

(1) Dogmatism          

(2) Pedantry             

(3) Inaccuracy           

(4) Purism                 

(5) Precision

Question No : 4

(1) Reactions             

(2) Question              

(3) Receptivity          

(4) Activity               

(5) Reception

Question No : 5

(1) Acquainted          

(2) Conversant          

(3) Informed             

(4) Ignorant              

(5) Familiar