PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-93 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): The following passage has seven blanks and the options for the blanks are jumbled. You are required to fill the correct word in the respective blanks.


Since the time of the British Raj, the (1) symbolic of breaking the nib after awarding a death sentence has been followed by Indian judges. There is more than one (2) necessary why a judge resorts to this action after he/she has passed the judgement. Breaking the nib is a (3) custom act. It is done so that the pen which signed the person's life away will never be used to do that ever again. A death sentence, in (4) judgement, is a last resort action in dealing with extremely anti-social acts that cannot be resolved in any other way. The nib is broken in order to do away with the 'tainted' pen (having ordered the death of a person). Perhaps it is done by the judge as a way of (5) distancing himself/herself from the judgement and the guilt of the same. Judges have no power to review/revoke the (6) principle or order once it has been written and signed. Therefore, the nib is also broken so that the judge may not think of reviewing his own judgement (no second, third thoughts). As the old saying goes: The death sentence is a sad, but sometimes a (7) reason thing and breaking the pen used to carry it out, expresses that sorrow.

Question No : 1

Which of the following fits in the FIRST blank?

(1) Reason                 

(2) Principle              

(3) Judgement           

(4) Custom                

(5) Symbolic

Question No : 2

Which of the following fits in the SECOND blank?

(1) Necessary            

(2) Principle              

(3) Reason                 

(4) Custom                

(5) Symbolic

Question No : 3

Which of the following fits in the THIRD blank?

(1) Necessary            

(2) Principle              

(3) Judgement           

(4) Reason                 

(5) Symbolic

Question No : 4

Which of the following fits in the FIFTH blank?

(1) Distancing           

(2) Principle              

(3) Judgement           

(4) Custom                

(5) Symbolic

Question No : 5

Which of the following fits in the SIXTH blank?

(1) Necessary            

(2) Principle              

(3) Judgement           

(4) Distancing           

(5) Symbolic