PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-88 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 7): 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, one of which would fill the blank appropriately. Mark the suitable word as the answer.

 

India has a long history as a …(1)… democracy where religious communities of very faith have …(2)… The CAB (Citizenship Amendment Bill) has …(3)… as “rights and relief giver” to religiously persecuted illegal migrants including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The exclusion of Muslims from the …(4)… of the Bill flows from the obvious reality that the three countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan are Islamist, as …(5)… in their own constitutions. …(6)… the course of history, their actions of targeting minorities …(7)… conversion or harassment, is clearly visible from the fact that the minority population in Pakistan has decreased from 23 percent in 1947 to 3.7 percent in 2011. Similarly, the minority population in Bangladesh has decreased from 22 percent in 1947 to 7 percent in 2011.

Question No : 1

(1) religious              

(2) small

(3) secular                 

(4) petition                

(5) monarchy

Question No : 2

(1) encouraged         

(2) popularized         

(3) enthroned           

(4) thrived                

(5) enshrined

Question No : 3

(1) emerged                                           

(2) put down                                         

(3) conserved

(4) commemorated   

(5) culminated

Question No : 4

(1) area                     

(2) region                  

(3) ambit                   

(4) boundary            

(5) zone

Question No : 5

(1) recalled               

(2) stated                  

(3) invoked               

(4) revoked               

(5) right

Question No : 6

(1) all                        

(2) along                   

(3) over                     

(4) with                     

(5) above

Question No : 7

(1) to                         

(2) of                         

(3) from                    

(4) for                       

(5) by