Cloze Test

Fill in the blank (iv) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Initially, the Grameen Bank did not …(i)… to get involved with the education of its borrowers. But as time went by, they began to feel the …(ii)… for it. Most of the borrowers had no formal education …(iii)… the ability to read and write. The borrowers had difficulty in expanding their business. They …(iv)… to be able to keep accounts, read …(v)… about business, health, new ways of farming etc. They …(vi)… their children to school and their children in turn helped their parents to keep accounts, read instructions and …(vii)… else needed to be read.
But this is not enough for the future. So the bank has set out to make sure that their borrowers …(viii)… a hundred per cent literacy rate with five years.

Fill in the blank (vii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Initially, the Grameen Bank did not …(i)… to get involved with the education of its borrowers. But as time went by, they began to feel the …(ii)… for it. Most of the borrowers had no formal education …(iii)… the ability to read and write. The borrowers had difficulty in expanding their business. They …(iv)… to be able to keep accounts, read …(v)… about business, health, new ways of farming etc. They …(vi)… their children to school and their children in turn helped their parents to keep accounts, read instructions and …(vii)… else needed to be read.
But this is not enough for the future. So the bank has set out to make sure that their borrowers …(viii)… a hundred per cent literacy rate with five years.

Fill in the blank (iii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Initially, the Grameen Bank did not …(i)… to get involved with the education of its borrowers. But as time went by, they began to feel the …(ii)… for it. Most of the borrowers had no formal education …(iii)… the ability to read and write. The borrowers had difficulty in expanding their business. They …(iv)… to be able to keep accounts, read …(v)… about business, health, new ways of farming etc. They …(vi)… their children to school and their children in turn helped their parents to keep accounts, read instructions and …(vii)… else needed to be read.
But this is not enough for the future. So the bank has set out to make sure that their borrowers …(viii)… a hundred per cent literacy rate with five years.

Fill in the blank (iv) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (v) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (ix) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (vi) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (i) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (ii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (x) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (viii) with the help of the given alternatives .

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (vii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (iii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and try to understand what it is about.

Many farmers who traditionally (…i…) pulses, millets and paddy have been lured by seed companies to buy hybrid cotton seeds and other GM crops, which were (…ii…) to make their lives easier and wealthier. Instead they (…iii…) bankruptcy and ruin. Their native seeds have been (…iv…) with new hybrids which cannot be saved and need to be purchased every year at a high cost. Hybrids are also very (…v…) to pest attacks. All pesticides have to be (…vi…) from the company that sold them the seeds; there have been reports of blatant profiteering from these companies.

We are (…vii…) told that without genetic engineering and globalization of agriculture the world will starve, it is constantly promoted as the only (…viii…) available for feeding the hungry.

Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers (…ix…) more on buying costly inputs for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. The consequence is rising debts in both rich and poor countries. In some African countries it is cheaper to buy foreign sugar and coffee than it is to buy locally produced goods. This is because of over production and subsidies in the West which means that they then dump these goods on Africa (…x…) local markets.

Fill in the blank (ii) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and answer the given question.

Happy is the man who …(i)… the habit of reading when he is young. He has secured a lifelong source of …(ii)…, instruction and inspiration. So long as he has his beloved books he need …(iii)… feel lonely. He always has a pleasant …(iv)… of leisure moments. He is the …(v)… of wealth more precious than gold. …(vi)… indeed is the man who does not read and …(vii)… is his life. …(viii)… gives the highest kind of pleasure. When we are …(ix)… it is a healthy recreation to lose …(x)… in the company of books.

Fill in the blank (ix) with the help of the given alternatives.

Directions: In the given question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and answer the given question.

Happy is the man who …(i)… the habit of reading when he is young. He has secured a lifelong source of …(ii)…, instruction and inspiration. So long as he has his beloved books he need …(iii)… feel lonely. He always has a pleasant …(iv)… of leisure moments. He is the …(v)… of wealth more precious than gold. …(vi)… indeed is the man who does not read and …(vii)… is his life. …(viii)… gives the highest kind of pleasure. When we are …(ix)… it is a healthy recreation to lose …(x)… in the company of books.