PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-96 (VERY NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

 

Smokers around the world buy roughly 6.5 trillion cigarettes each year. That’s 18 billion every day. While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping (1)…… when smoked, not everything gets burned. Trillions of cigarette filters—also known as butts or ends—are (2)……, only an estimated third of which make it into the trash. The rest are casually (3)…… into the street or out a window.

 

Cigarette filters are made of a plastic called cellulose acetate. When tossed (4)…… the environment, they dump not only that plastic, but also the nicotine, heavy metals, and many other chemicals they’ve absorbed into the surrounding environment.

 

Zipf said cigarette butts have long been at or near the top of the list of items her organization (5)…… during beach cleanups. The billions more that remain in the water are hazardous to marine animals, which can eat them, she said.

Question No : 1

While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping (1) ……when smoked, not everything gets burned.

(1) Sporadic              

(2) No-frills              

(3) Diligence             

(4) Disintegrate        

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Trillions of cigarette filters—also known as butts or ends—are (2) ……, only an estimated third of which make it into the trash.

(1) Sombre                

(2) Left over             

(3) Sedulously           

(4) Captivity             

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

The rest are casually (3) ……into the street or out a window

(1) Flung

(2) Lavish                 

(3) Incessant             

(4) Latent                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

When tossed (4) ……the environment, they dump not only that plastic, but also the nicotine, heavy metals, and many other chemicals they’ve absorbed into the surrounding environment.

(1) Into                     

(2) In                         

(3) Out                      

(4) To                        

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Zipf said cigarette butts have long been at or near the top of the list of items her organization (5) ……during beach cleanups.

(1) Diligence             

(2) Annals                 

(3) Finds                   

(4) Malignant            

(5) None of these