While preparing for any Bank, Insurance or Government Exams one of the biggest challenges the aspirants face is preparing for the Cloze Test. Cloze Test is one of the recurring topics under the English Language section of various competitive exams. It tests a candidates understanding of the passage, grammatical skills and vocabulary, and like RC, it is one of the most scoring topics under the English Language section.To ace the Cloze Test questions you will have to practice and solve them regularly. Keep this point in mind, we are starting a new series – Practice Cloze Test. In this series, we are going to provide you with Free Cloze Test Questions regularly. So, let’s begin with English Cloze Test 02.
English Cloze Test 02
In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words/phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.
Can an experiment conceived, carried out, and reported in kids-speak with pencil-coloured figures and hand-written tables by school children aged 8 to 10 years get published in a highly rated international journal following a peer-reviewing process? Twenty-seven schoolchildren from a primary school in UK have proved this is ____A____ if a simple but novel scientific question raised is ____B____ in a scientific way. Their paper was published in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters journal. Their ____C____ was that bumble-bees can use a “combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from.” Considering that our understanding of how bees perceive coloured patterns and scenes is inadequate, this inspiring outcome has shown that schoolchildren guided by gifted teachers can think and ____D____ out experiments like any hard-wired scientist. For these kids, doing science changed their ____E____ of the subject. Science also became “cool and fun.” This refreshing approach turns the spotlight on the best methods of teaching science. The ____F____ learning system adopted by most schools in India, even classroom study combined with some laboratory work with pre-defined outcomes, does very little to ____G____ curiosity and interest in science. Is that one of the ____H____ why out-of-the-box thinking that produces path-breaking science rarely comes out of Indian laboratories? The children at the UK school had their gifted teacher to guide them. Scientists from India’s space and atomic energy departments and in some other places where serious science is done can take a ____I____ out of the school’s book and ____J____ the way in engaging with school pupils and getting them to do real science.
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A
(1) done
(2) unlikely
(3) potential
(4) promising
(5) possible
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B
(1) questioned
(2) said
(3) retorted
(4) answered
(5) address
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C
(1) question
(2) finding
(3) methodology
(4) result
(5) studies
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D
(1) wage
(2) create
(3) execute
(4) carry
(5) attempt
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E
(1) option
(2) lives
(3) visual
(4) demands
(5) perception
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F
(1) revolutionary
(2) radical
(3) rote
(4) adequate
(5) bore
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G
(1) stimulate
(2) simulate
(3) make
(4) peek
(5) judge
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H
(1) cause
(2) root
(3) reasons
(4) issues
(5) sources
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I
(1) thread
(2) leaf
(3) example
(4) look
(5) pages
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J
(1) lead
(2) start
(3) deliver
(4) paved
(5) ahead
Answer key
| Q1. | Q2. | Q3. | Q4. | Q5. | Q6. | Q7. | Q8. | Q9. | Q10. |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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