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Cloze Test in English Inter 2nd Year
→ The word ‘cloze’ comes from the idea of ‘closure’ (completing).
→ Hence ‘cloze test’ means ‘fill in’ the blanks. A passage with some ‘missing words’ is given. The missing parts are to be supplied by the student.
→ ‘Cloze Tests’ a) help improve reading comprehension, b) enhance grammar knowledge c) better employable opportunities.
→ Understanding the context, knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and regular practice help one solve ‘cloze tests’.
Examine the examples given below.
Question 1.
Riya is a bright student. She always ___________ (1) her homework on time. She is very good ___________ (2) mathematics and often helps her friends. Her teachers are proud ___________ (3) her.
Options:
1. does / do / did
2. in / at / on
3. of / for / with
Answer:
1. does
2. at
3. of
Question 2.
Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today. It is mainly caused ___________ (1) the emission of greenhouse gases. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, leading ___________ (2) rising temperatures. Unless urgent steps are taken, the consequences ___________ (3) be disastrous for all living beings.
Options:
1. by / from / with
2. to / for / in
3. will / would / should
Answer:
1. by
2. to
3. will
Question 3.
Technology has become an essential part of modern life. The internet has not only ___________ (1) communication faster but also opened new opportunities for learning and business. However, excessive use of digital devices ___________ (2) harmful effects on health. Therefore, it is ___________ (3) to strike a balance between the use of technology and maintaining real-life interactions.
Options:
1. made / make / making
2. have / has / had
3. important / importance / importantly
Answer:
1. made
2. has
3. important
Question 4.
Health is the greatest wealth. A person who ___________ (1) fit and healthy can enjoy life fully. Balanced diet and regular exercise play an important role ___________ (2) maintaining good health. We must also drink clean water and avoid junk food, which often is ___________ (3) for the body. Mental health is equally important; one should practise activities like yoga and meditation to stay ___________ (4). In the end, discipline and healthy habits always help us to remain ___________ (5) in life.
Options:
1. is / are / was
2. at / in / for
3. harmful / harmfully / harm
4. calm / sadness / tiring
5. successful / failure / success
Answer:
1. is
2. in
3. harmful
4. calm
5. successful
Question 5.
In celebrating Indian English, Tharoor shows how it is __________ (1) vibrant form of expression that has grown __________ (2) time. It reflects culture and creativity, __________ (3) it may differ from standard norms. Indian English is often __________ (4) expressive than others, speaking __________ (5) hearts of its people.
Options:
1. an / the / a
2. in / over / at
3. but / and / so
4. most / much / more
5. to / for / into
Answer:
1. a
2. over
3. but
4. more
5. to
Question 6.
Jill was walking to her class slowly. She was worried __________ (1) the History test she would have to __________ (2) that morning. As she was reaching the classroom, a piece of paper suddenly fluttered down and __________ (3) near her feet. As Jill glanced down at the paper, her heart nearly __________ (4) a beat. It was the History test paper complete __________ (5) answers !
Options:
1. with / about / along
2. take / get / do
3. came / landed / went
4. slowed / missed / got
5. in / for / with
Answer:
1. about
2. take
3. landed
4. missed
5. with
Question 7.
The message of forgiveness, as given by Desmond Tutu, reminds us that saying ‘‘I am sorry” can heal hearts. Many hesitate __________ (1) to admit mistakes __________ (2) fear or pride. We must learn __________ (3) forgive, __________ (4) it is easy or not. Only then can broken relations grow __________ (5) into trust again.
Options:
1. softly / often/ rareiy
2. because of / from / for
3. of / with / to
4. weather / wither / whether
5. back / in / over
Answer:
1. often
2. because of
3. to
4. whether
5. back
Question 8.
Oliver set out to walk to London. He had nothing in his pocket but a crust of bread. When that __________ (1) gone, he had to beg for food. He slept wherever he could find shelter. When the weather was fine, he __________ (2) on a field or under a hedge. He was cold, tired, hungry and ragged. His feet __________ (3) torn and bleeding. __________ (4) on he went for seven days. Then, early one morning, he __________ (5) the little town of Barnet, not far from London.
(From the abridged version of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)
Options:
1. is / was / were
2. sleep / slept / sleeping
3. was / are / were
4. But / And / So
5. enter / entering / entered
Answer:
1. was
2. slept
3. were
4. But
5. entered
Question 9.
Martin Luther King Jr’s speech reminds us that hope __________ (1) the human spirit. Determination helps us __________ (2) forward despite obstacles, while patience is ___________ (3) key virtue. We must choose __________ (4) or despair wisely, and act in __________ (5) with justice
Options:
1. fuel / fuels / fuelled
2. move / moving / moved
3. an / the / a
4. hoop / hop / hope
5. lines / line / lined
Answer:
1. fuels
2. move
3. a
4. hope
5. line
Question 10.
However, I didn’t care. As __________ (1) student of history, I had read Hiuen Tsang’s book Si-Yu-Ki. Before Tsang’s travel to India, everybody discouraged him from making the journey on foot, but he __________ (2) to listen and decided to go. In time, he became __________ (3) for his seventeen-year-long journey to India. Taking __________ (4) from Tsang, I told my family, ‘I want to do engineering. Come what may, I am ready for the __________ (5) of my actions.’
(From Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty)
Options:
1. a / an / the
2. agreed / refused / nodded
3. fancy / famous / notorious
4. courage / courageous / courageously
5. complete / complicated / consequences
Answer:
1. a
2. refused
3. famous
4. courage
5. consequences
Question 11.
The old mansion stood on __________ (1) hill, silent and dark. Ravi moved __________ (2). holding a flickering torch. He was afraid __________ (3) some strange noise he had begun to hear just then. Suddenly he saw a shadow __________ (4). And for reasons unknown, it disappeared __________ (5) he blinked.
Options:
1. the / a / an
2. slow / slower / slowly
3. of / in / at
4. their / there / they’re
5. when / while / where
Answer:
1. a
2. slowly
3. of
4. there
5. when
Question 12.
We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light- years across and __________ (1) slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit __________ (2) its centre about once every several hundred million years. Our sun is just __________ (3) ordinary, average-sized, yellow star, near the inner edge __________ (4) one of the spiral arms. We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought __________ (5) the earth was the centre of the universe!
(From A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking)
Options:
1. is / are / was
2. about / around / along
3. a / an / the
4. of / on / with
5. this / that / than
Answer:
1. is
2. around
3. an
4. of
5. that
Exercises
Complete the following cloze test by filling in the blanks with the suitable words given below.
Question 1.
If we want to make __________ (1). let’s put ourselves out to do things for __________ (2) people – things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness. When the Duke of Windsor was Prince of Wales, he was scheduled to tour South America, and __________ (3) he started out on that tour he spent months studying Spanish __________ (4) that he could make public talks in the language of the country; and the South Americans __________ (5) him for it.
(From How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie)
Options:
1. friends / enemies / relatives
2. our / your / other
3. after / before / during
4. and / so / but
5. lovely / loved / lovingly
Answer:
1. friends
2. our
3. before
4. so
5. loved
Question 2.
There are also echoes of Einstein in Hawking on a __________ (1) personal level. Their natural inquisitiveness and extraordinary intellects failed to shine __________ (2) the constraints of early, formal education. On a related note, __________ (3) men found their mathematical knowledge sometimes __________ (4) behind the advances in their theoretical thinking. In other words, both have at times struggled to conquer the maths that __________ (5) the phenomena they can visualize in their minds.
(From How to Think like Stephen Hawking by Daniel Smith)
Options:
1. more / most / many
2. without / within / withother
3. each / both / other
4. lag / lagged / lagging
5. explains / examples / enters
Answer:
1. more
2. within
3. both
4. lagging
5. explains
Question 3.
Looking back on my days as __________ (1) young scientist, I am aware that one of the most constant and powerful urges I experienced was my __________ (2) to be more than what I was at that moment. I desired to feel more, learn more, express more. 1 desired to __________ (3) . improve, purify, expand. I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within __________ (4) . The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far 1 had still to go rather than how far I had come. After all, what is life but a __________ (5) of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories, and amorphous defeats ?
(From Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A PJ Abdul Kalam)
Options:
1. an / a / the
2. desire / need / demand
3. growth / grow / grew
4. himself / myself / yourself
5. mixture / medium / mobile
Answer:
1. a
2. desire
3. grow
4. myself
5. mixture
Question 4.
Technology is great if we’re in control of it. It’s not so great if it takes control __________ (1) us. For example, if you have to write a research paper, you might sit down at your computer and use Google to look __________ (2) the information you need. However, if you’re not very disciplined, you might end up surfing the Web instead of writing that paper. In that case, Google and the Internet will have taken __________ (3) pulling you out of your state of flow. It has been scientifically shown that if we continually ask our brains __________ (4) switch back and forth between tasks, we waste – time, make more mistakes, and remember less __________ (5) what we’ve done.
(From Ikigai by Hector Garcia & Francis Miralles)
Options:
1. of / on / for
2. in / up / at
3. under / over / into
4. to / in / of
5. on / at / of
Answer:
1. of
2. up
3. over
4. to
5. of
Question 5.
A business executive __________ (1) me that he puts his dependence upon the ‘emergency powers of the human brain’. It is his theory, and a __________ (2) one, that a human being possesses extra powers that may be tapped and __________ (3)4 under emergency situations. In the ordinary conduct of day-by-day living, these emergency powers __________(4) dormant, but under extraordinary circumstances the personality is able, when called upon, to deliver extra power if __________ (5).
(From The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr Norman Vincent Peale)
Options:
1. tell / told / telling
2. sound / sounded / sounding
3. utilize / utilized / utilization
4. lies / lie / lied
5. needed / need / needing
Answer:
1. told
2. sound
3. utilized
4. lie
5. needed
Question 6.
The baby elephant wasn’t out of place in our home in north India __________ (1) India is where elephants belong, and in any case our house was full of pets __________ (2) home by Grandfather, who was in the Forest Service. __________ (3) the cassowary bird was different. No one had ever seen such a bird before-not in India, at least. Grandfather had picked it up __________ (4) a voyage to Singapore, where he’d been given the bird by a rubber planter who’d got it from a Dutch __________ (5) who’d got it from a man in Indonesia.
(From The Elephant and the Cassowary by Ruskin Bond)
Options:
1. but / because / so
2. brought / bring / bringing
3. So / But / Or
4. for / in / on
5. trade / trader / trading
Answer:
1. because
2. brought
3. But
4. on
5. trader
Question 7.
Rogers, summoned before the court, had __________ (1) little to tell. He had been busy all the morning about household duties and with the __________ (2) of lunch. He had taken cocktails on to the terrace before lunch and had __________ (3) gone up to remove his things from the attic to another room. He had not looked __________ (4) of the window during the morning and had seen nothing that could have any bearing upon the death of General Macarthur. He would swear definitely that there __________ (5) been eight china figures upon the dining-table when he laid the table for lunch.
(From And Then There were None by Agatha Christie)
Options:
1. vary / very / verify
2. preparation / prepare / preparedness
3. than / then / there
4. from / out / in
5. had / have / has
Answer:
1. very
2. preparation
3. then
4. out
5. had
Question 8.
“No more delays, comrades !’ cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. “There is work to be done. This very morning we __________ (1) rebuilding the windmill, and we will __________ (2) all through the winter, rain or shine. We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot __________ (3) our work so easily. Remember, comrades, there must be no alteration in our plans : they shall be carried __________ (4) to the day. Forward, comrades ! Long live the windmill ! Long __________ (5) Animal Farm !”
(From Animal Farm by George Orwell)
Options:
1. begin / began / begins
2. build / built / builds
3. do / undo / redo
4. on / out / with
5. lives / live / leave
Answer:
1. began
2. build
3. undo
4. out
5. live
Question 9.
He could not __________ (1) the green of the shore now but only the tops of the blue hills that showed white as __________ (2) they were snow-capped and the clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them. The sea was very dark and the light __________ (3) prisms in the water. The myriad __________ (4) of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down __________ (5) the water that was a mile deep.
(From The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway)
Options:
1. see / saw / seen
2. though / through / thought
3. make / made /making
4. flecks / flicks / fleas
5. in / into / on
Answer:
1. see
2. though
3. made
4. flecks
5. into
Question 10.
‘Listen to me __________ (1), I will give you fifty copies of this and you will take them to the army camp at Belliali. The poor fellows there cannot have any __________ (2) of what is happening in the world since they are not allowed to listen in to truth, but only to the cock-and-bull stories that the British War Department __________ (3). Our boys must __________ (4) the truth. They must know where Subhas Babu is, where the Indian National Army is stationed, and what is to be done. It is our duty to propagate __________ (5) wherever it may be. Has not Mahatmaji told us so ?’
(From Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan)
Options:
1. careful / carefully / caring
2. nation / notion / negotiation
3. issue / issues / issuing
4. know / knows / have been knowing
5. true / truth / truly
Answer:
1. carefully
2. notion
3. issues
4. know
5. truth