Cloze Test

Directions: Read the passage and fill in the blank with a suitable preposition.

A farmer had four sons who always quarrelled ________ themselves. The farmer’s advice had no effect on them. Once he thought of a plan to teach them a lesson. He asked them to bring a bundle of sticks. He asked them to break the bundle but none of them could do so.

Directions: Read the passage and fill in the blank with a suitable preposition.

The farmer asked them to untie the bundle. The sons did so. Then, the farmer divided the sticks between them and asked them to break the sticks. Now, each __________ the sons could break the sticks easily. The farmer advised them that if they wanted to remain safe, they should be united like the bundle of sticks.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (i) with the help of the alternatives given.

Buck lived in a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which (i) ______ could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was (ii) ______ by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear, things were on even a more (iii) ______ scale than at the front. There were great (iv) ___, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly (v) ___ of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well and the big cement tank where judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. And over this great demesne, Buck ruled. Here, he was born and here, he had lived the four years of his life.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (v) with the help of the alternatives given.

Buck lived in a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which (i) ______ could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was (ii) ______ by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear, things were on even a more (iii) ______ scale than at the front. There were great (iv) ___, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly (v) ___ of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well and the big cement tank where judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. And over this great demesne, Buck ruled. Here, he was born and here he had lived the four years of his life.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Buck lived in a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which (i) ______ could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was (ii) ______ by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear, things were on even a more (iii) ______ scale than at the front. There were great (iv) ___, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly (v) ___ of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well and the big cement tank where judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. And over this great demesne, Buck ruled. Here, he was born and here he had lived the four years of his life.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (ii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Buck lived in a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which (i) ______ could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was (ii) ______ by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear, things were on even a more (iii) ______ scale than at the front. There were great (iv) ___, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly (v) ___ of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well and the big cement tank where judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. And over this great demesne, Buck ruled. Here, he was born and here he had lived the four years of his life.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iv) with the help of the alternatives given.

Buck lived in a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which (i) ______ could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was (ii) ______ by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear, things were on even a more (iii) ______ scale than at the front. There were great (iv) ___, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly (v) ___ of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well and the big cement tank where judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. And over this great demesne, Buck ruled. Here, he was born and here he had lived the four years of his life.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Cigars had burned low and we were (i) ______ to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had (ii) ______ they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof - not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such (iii) ___. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not (iv) ___ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronised. The (v) ______ that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion - a touch of envy.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (i) with the help of the alternatives given.

Cigars had burned low and we were (i) ______ to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had (ii) ______ they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof - not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such (iii) ___. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness, which I remembered in Wyland Tertius, had not (iv) ___ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronised. The (v) ______ that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion - a touch of envy.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iv) with the help of the alternatives given.

Cigars had burned low and we were (i) ______ to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had (ii) ______ they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof - not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such (iii) ___. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not (iv) ___ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronised. The (v) ______ that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion - a touch of envy.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (ii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Cigars had burned low and we were (i) ______ to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had (ii) ______ they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof - not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such (iii) ___. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not (iv) ___ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronised. The (v) ______ that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion - a touch of envy.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (v) with the help of the alternatives given.

Cigars had burned low and we were (i) ______ to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had (ii) ______ they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof - not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such (iii) ___. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not (iv) ___ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened well out of the skinny, precocious infant whom I had once alternately bullied and patronised. The (v) ______ that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual emotion - a touch of envy.

Fill blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Biogas ______(i)_____ obtained from animal dung and other agricultural wastes.  Animal dung and other agricultural wastes are mixed with water and ________(ii)_______ into a digester. In the absence of air, the biomass ________(iii)_______ to give a combustible gas, _________(iv)_______ is a mixture of gases like methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and hydrogen sulphide.

Fill blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Cinema not only entertains _______(i)_______ educates the masses. No other media seems _______(ii)_______ attractive to the youth than cinema. It has ______(iii)__ _____ the attention of every class of people.  The huge popularity of the cinema is clearly seen and many advantages are ______(iv)_______ to it.

Fill blank (iv).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The scientific revolutions of the 20^th century ______(i)______ to many technologies, which promise ______(ii)______ wholly new eras in many fields. As we stand today ______(iii)______ the beginning of a new century, we have to ensure fullest use of these developments for the well being of our people. Science and technology ______(iv)______ an integral part of Indian civilisation and culture over the past several millennia.