PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-72 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the given alternatives. Note that the word be chosen has to be synonymous to the word given in the bracket.

 

The discussion on a social security and welfare system has degenerated into something …(A)… (similar) to throwing money from a helicopter, especially in the politically charged atmosphere of competing claims. The …(B)… (types) of a universal basic income proposed by both those national parties are, in effect, a …(C)… (concealed) admission of mismanagement and failure to provide citizens with basic public goods. There is no guarantee that …(D)… (guaranteed) income programmes, by whatever names they’re called, will result in the poor gaining improved access to quality education or healthcare infrastructure. The rush to announce competing schemes should be preceded by …(E)… (thought) on the ethics of replacing public goods with hard cash.

Question No : 1

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (A)?

(1) Ashen                  

(2) Akin                    

(3) Asinine                

(4) Parlance               

(5) Askance

Question No : 2

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (B)?

(1) Vitriol

(2) Vestige                

(3) Vestibule             

(4) Variants               

(5) Verify

Question No : 3

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (C)?

(1) Volition               

(2) Propelled             

(3) Reneged              

(4) Verged                

(5) Veiled

Question No : 4

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (D)?

(1) Assured               

(2) Assuaged            

(3) Attribute             

(4) Attained              

(5) Attenuated

Question No : 5

Which of the following words fits the blank labeled as (E)?

(1) Detriment            

(2) Delineation          

(3) Deliberations       

(4) Divestment          

(5) Divulge