PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-98 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the following given passage, certain words are bold which may or may not be fit in the sentence either grammatically or contextually. Each word is numbered followed by four possible replacements. If none of the possible replacements could replace the bold word, mark your answer, (5); “None of these”.


Genetically Modified (GM) pest resistant BT cotton hybrids have captured the Indian market since their introduction in 2002. These now cover over 95% of the area under cotton, with the seeds belittle …(1)… entirely by the private sector. India’s cotton production in 2019 is projected as the highest ever: 354 lakh bales. BT cotton’s role in increasing India’s cotton production, which GM harmful …(2)… have highlighted as being instrumental, has also been used to argue for extending GM technology to increase food crop yield. However, critics say that BT cotton hybrids have negatively impacted livelihoods and contributed to racist …(3)… distress, particularly among resource-poor farmers. This year, India is expected to be the world’s largest cotton producer, comparing …(4)… China in output. However, India’s productivity (yield per unit area), is much lower than other major cotton-producing countries, meaning a much larger area is used for cotton production. Indeed, India’s productivity has been only a third of these countries for over four decades. Why is this so? It cannot be explained by Agronomic or socio-economic differences because these countries include both developed and developing countries, and different geographies. India is the only country that grows cotton as composer …(5)… and the first to develop hybrid cotton back in 1970. Hybrids are made by crossing two parent strains having different genetic characters.

Question No : 1

(1) Produced                 

(2) Testimony                

(3) Hatred                     

(4) Spiritual                   

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) Accountancy            

(2) Dirtiness                  

(3) Forthright                

(4) Proponents              

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

(1) Movement               

(2) Agrarian                  

(3) Beneficial                 

(4) Counter                   

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) Consideration          

(2) Thinking                  

(3) Surpassing               

(4) Recollect                  

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Analyze                   

(2) Courage                   

(3) Hybrids                   

(4) Predilection             

(5) None of these