Cloze Test Questions

Multiple choice
  1. relating

  2. donating

  3. attaching

  4. establishing

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. escalating

  2. modest

  3. unpredictable

  4. negligible

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

...... a unique (i) blend of art and science that has (ii) arisen out of man’s primary need... with the design and (iii) construction of buildings in..... field is quite (iv) vast... provides the (v) satisfaction of designing ..... pleasing and (vi) aesthetically refined structures... (vii) Despite the fairly large.... the countrywide (viii) spurt in building... field are relatively (ix) modest what you make thereafter will depend entirely on your (x) experience.

Multiple choice
  1. variation

  2. slack

  3. lethargy

  4. spurt

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

...... a unique (i) blend of art and science that has (ii) arisen out of man’s primary need... with the design and (iii) construction of buildings in..... field is quite (iv) vast... provides the (v) satisfaction of designing ..... pleasing and (vi) aesthetically refined structures... (vii) Despite the fairly large.... the countrywide (viii) spurt in building... field are relatively (ix) modest what you make thereafter will depend entirely on your (x) experience.

Multiple choice
  1. compel

  2. vitiate

  3. leave

  4. prevent

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. fatiguing

  2. strenuous

  3. encouraging

  4. vast

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

...... a unique (i) blend of art and science that has (ii) arisen out of man’s primary need... with the design and (iii) construction of buildings in..... field is quite (iv) vast... provides the (v) satisfaction of designing ..... pleasing and (vi) aesthetically refined structures... (vii) Despite the fairly large.... the countrywide (viii) spurt in building... field are relatively (ix) modest what you make thereafter will depend entirely on your (x) experience.

Multiple choice
  1. lasts

  2. perishes

  3. endangers

  4. decreases

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. practically

  2. ideologically

  3. aesthetically

  4. principally

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

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Multiple choice
  1. expensive

  2. simple

  3. difficult

  4. unrealistic

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. drifted

  2. fizzled

  3. contrived

  4. arisen

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

...... a unique (i) blend of art and science that has (ii) arisen out of man’s primary need... with the design and (iii) construction of buildings in..... field is quite (iv) vast... provides the (v) satisfaction of designing ..... pleasing and (vi) aesthetically refined structures... (vii) Despite the fairly large.... the countrywide (viii) spurt in building... field are relatively (ix) modest what you make thereafter will depend entirely on your (x) experience.

Multiple choice
  1. having

  2. being

  3. posing

  4. getting

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. earn

  2. work

  3. learn

  4. expect

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Motivating with…(i) incentives…increasingly (ii) difficult as employees become economically secure …and their dependency…(iii) decreases… motivation to (iv) work increases when … (v) performance…is an instrument for …rewards. In many organisations employees are (vi) entitled to rewards just by…Unions …(vii) prevent management from (viii) establishing rewards for performance. But (ix) being motivated…is (x) not the same…as being motivated (to work).

Multiple choice
  1. irrelevant

  2. boring

  3. discarded

  4. official

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The best option is the word ‘official’ as the papers on the desk of a Superintendent would most importantly be official though they may also appear irrelevant, boring or discarded to others. 

Multiple choice
  1. assembled

  2. contained

  3. piled

  4. tiled

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence means to say that the desk was stacked high with papers, that is to say, the desk was piled high with papers.

Multiple choice
  1. immensely

  2. absolutely

  3. out and out

  4. utterly

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence means that the Superintendent was a very tall man. All other words mean ‘totally’ which is not applicable here. Hence, “immensely” is the correct word to be used.

Multiple choice
  1. Ogling

  2. Staring

  3. Scrutinizing

  4. Eyeing

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The use of the word “stared” is appropriate. ‘To ogle’ is to stare in a lecherous way and ‘scrutinize’ is used for objects. The word ‘eyeing’ is not appropriate because it means ‘looking at closely or with interest’. Since the Superintendent ‘lunged forward’ we can assume that he was not so amiable as to eye the visitor (narrator).