Cloze Test

A cloze test is an exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of language with certain items, words, or signs removed (cloze text), where the participant is asked to replace the missing language item. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct language or part of speech that belongs in the deleted passages. These types of tests are common feature of 11 Plus exams for grammar school entrances.

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Practice Test

DIRECTIONS for the question 1 to 15: 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 are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

The warning against carbon emissions, which is (1)______ the Earth, just got more urgent. The UN Human Development Report said on Tuesday that (2) ______the global community agreed to (3)______ emissions by half by 2050, the world would face huge economic setbacks and also ecological (4)______. "We are on the (5)______ of seeing human (6)______ for the first time in 30 years," Kevin Watkins, the author of the report was (7)______ as saying. The report said the poor nations would be hit the / as they are the least / to face nature's / manifest in devastating storms and droughts.

1. 1. if
   2. Notwithstanding
   3. Because
   4. without
   5. unless
2. 1. cut
   2. aggravate
   3. enhance
   4. diminish
   5. eradicate
3. 
   
   1. step
   2. verge
   3. top
   4. extreme
   5. enshrinement
4. 
   
   1. quoted
   2. observed
   3. found
   4. interrogated
   5. defined
5. 
   
   1. best
   2. largest
   3. hardest
   4. least
   5. strongest
6. 
   
   1. worried
   2. engaged
   3. willful
   4. struggled
   5. equipped
7. 
   
   1. boon
   2. fury
   3. blessing
   4. deadline
   5. encroachment

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (8)______ of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (9)______ loans and (10)______ in other financial transactions. In the past two decades the banking architecture has changed-the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (11)______ and credit and debit card have created new financial spaces. (12) ______the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system – after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may be about to change as technocrats now (13) ______cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (14) ______Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (15)______. The world over cell phones are spreading at a (/) rate and in India alone new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (/) that no bank can dream of.

8. 
   
   1. knowledge
   2. security
   3. presence
   4. confidentiality
   5. guarantee

9. 1. pursue
   2. interact
   3. operate
   4. enable
   5. engage
10. 
    
    1. drawback
    2. interact
    3. operate
    4. luxury
    5. innovation
11. 
    
    1. essential
    2. obsolete
    3. extant
    4. retreat
    5. expired
12. 
    
    1. moderately
    2. occasionally
    3. compulsorily
    4. indiscriminately
    5. effectively
13. 
    
    1. phenomenal
    2. gradual
    3. proportionate
    4. competitive
    5. projected
14. 
    
    1. phenomenal
    2. gradual
    3. proportionate
    4. competitive
    5. projected
15. 
    
    1. indigenous
    2. operational
    3. germane
    4. significant
    5. well-thought