PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-81 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 7): In a passage given below there are seven blanks, every blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which pair of word will best suit to the respective blank.

 

With smartphone companies …(1)… new phones almost every week with better specs and design, users are moving to newer devices faster than ever before. Most smartphone customers upgrade to a new phone within six to 12 months, and any newly launched phone finds its way into the second-hand smartphone market within four to six months, according to a report, titled The Second Hand Smartphone Market in India, by Cashify, an online assured-sale platform. Not …(2)…, the used smartphone market is also picking pace, and becoming more …(3)…. Phones are now being tested on several parameters and …(4)… and being given the refurbished tag. According to the Cashify report, the total refurbished smartphone market was approximately 11% of the total smartphone market share in India in 2018. Overall, the rate of growth of used phones, including refurbished and other second-hand phones, in India is around 25%, higher than the global average of 18-20%, said the report. Bigger e-commerce companies like Amazon under the tag Amazon Renewed, Flipkart under 2GUD, Cashify, and others have also entered this space. “The second-hand market is being largely captured by refurbished phones, which have been growing at more than 200% year-on-year and are the largest product category in the refurbished space," said a spokesperson from Amazon. “The phones that come into the second-hand market are either passed on to …(5)… equipment manufacturers or third-party refurbished players and, if required, repaired by them in a dedicated facility. The devices are …(6)… tested to ensure that they are functioning to their full potential and graded based on their …(7)…," said Varun Mishra, research analyst, mobile device and ecosystem, Counterpoint Market Research, a market research firm.

Question No : 1

(1) introducing/agonizing                     

(2) throbbing/ presenting

(3) rolling on/ pounding                       

(4) rolling out /launching                      

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) staggeringly/unexceptionally          

(2) startlingly /surprisingly

(3) incredibly/ discreetly                      

(4) miraculously/inconspicuously         

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) suave/ naive                                    

(2) debonair/ amateurish

(3) sophisticated/ complicated              

(4) urbane/ gawky   

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) overhauled/repaired                       

(2) cloaked/revamp

(3) darned/swathed

(4) mended/shrouded                          

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) authentic/orthodox                         

(2) nifty/conventional

(3) original/ veritable

(4) ingenious/tangible                           

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

(1) painstakingly/sketchily                   

(2) scruffily/exhaustively

(3) meticulously/ unkemptly                 

(4) scrupulously /thoroughly                

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

(1) feature/oddity    

(2) attribute /quality

(3) characteristic/ weirdness                 

(4) trait/crank                                       

(5) None of these