CLOZE TEST
course of earth"s history and ___443___       452. (1) `posture           (2) position       467. (1) monkeys         (2) moles
to play the leadi ng rol e in the                    (3) pose             (4) posterior            (3) tree shrews (4) dinosaurs
___444___ of life on the surface of our
                                              453. (1) free               (2) tight          468. (1) insignificant
___445___ . Indeed, there is nothing
here which ___446___ so much to the                  (3) loose            (4) lazy                 (2) catastrophic
beauty of the ___447___as water, be it        454. (1) vision             (2) skill                (3) unpleasant
just a little ___448___ trickling over the           (3) tools            (4) ability              (4) enlivening
rocks or a __449___ pond by the way           455. (1) lost               (2) acquired       469. (1) survived        (2) participated
side where animals __450___ their
                                                     (3) demanded (4) forgotten                    (3) destroyed      (4) separated
thirst.
                                              456. (1) making             (2) doing          470. (1) out             (2) on
441. (1) done              (2) played
      (3) created          (4) developed             (3) sharpening (4) breaking                   (3) of             (4) away
442. (1) shaping           (2) solving        457. (1) use                (2) pride               Directions (471-480) : In the fol-
                                                                                            lowing passage, some of the words
      (3) preventing (4) uplifting                   (3) advantage (4) right
                                                                                            have been left out. First read the pas-
443. (1) decides           (2) continues      458. (1) in                 (2) about         sage over and try to understand what
      (3) prepares         (4) refuses               (3) upon             (4) on            it is about. Then fill in the blanks with
444. (1) movement (2) drama                   459. (1) was                (2) being         the help of the alternatives given.
      (3) scene            (4) future                (3) been             (4) are                         (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry
445. (1) star                                 460. (1) not                (2) rather                Operator & LDC Exam. 11.12.2011
      (2) constellation                              (3) than             (4) unless                           (IInd Sitting (East Zone)
      (3) planet                                    Directions (461 – 470) : In the               Ants play an important part in the
      (4) sea                                following passage, some of the words           __471__ of nature. They eat a large
446. (1) deduces           (2) adds          have been left out. First read the pas-        __472__of insects and so help keep
      (3) detracts         (4) brightens     sage over and try to understand what           them __473__ becoming too plentiful.
                                             it is about. Then fill in the blanks with      In the tropics, ants eat more __474__
447. (1) countryside (2) river
                                             the help of the alternatives given.            half the termites hatched each year.
      (3) humanbeings(4) skies                                                              Ants, in __475__ are an important
                                                            (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry
448. (1) river             (2) stream                                                       __476__ source for birds. Frogs, liz-
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      (3) waterfalls       (4) well                                (Ist Sitting (East Zone) ards and many other animals also feed
449. (1) dirty             (2) short                Just sixty-five million years ago       __477__ ants.
      (3) huge             (2) little        our ancestors were the most unpre-                   Ants are __478__ helpful and
450. (1) complete          (2) quench        possessing of mammals-creatures with           harmful to farmers. Some kinds of ants
      (3) pamper           (4) destroy       the size and intelligence of moles or          aid farmers by killing insects that
                                             tree shrews. The earth then (461) full         __479__ crops. Ants that dig under-
        Directions (451 – 460) : In the
                                             of awesome, nightmarish lizards which          ground nests __480__ the soil. They
following passage, some of the words
                                             (462) virtually every ecological niche.        break up, loosen and mix the soil.
have been left out. First read the pas-
                                             Some of (463) had very large brains,           471. (1) destruction (2) creation
sage over and try understand what it
                                             an upright (464) and two little front
is about. Then fill in the blanks with                                                             (3) formation      (4) balance
                                             legs very much (465) hands, which
the help of the alternatives given.                                                         472. (1) quantity         (2) number
                                             they used dexterously to (466) small
              (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry                                                         (3) size           (4) weight
                                             animals for dinner. But then (467) did
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                                             not survive. Sadly, in one (468) event         473. (1) from             (2) to
                  (IInd Sitting (Delhi Zone)
                                             every one of them was (469) . And no                  (3) at             (4) in
        Twenty million years ago, our        one knows what wiped (470) the di-
immediate ancestors probably still lived                                                    474. (1) less             (2) or
                                             nosaurs.
in the trees. After we came (451) from                                                             (3) than           (4) rather
                                              461. (1) was                (2) is
the trees, we evolved an upright (452);                                                     475. (1) environment (2) trees
our hands were more useful, being                   (3) being             (4) been
                                                                                                   (3) nature         (4) ground
(453).We possessed agility and an ex-         462. (1) created            (2) emptied
                                                                                            476. (1) food             (2) energy
cellent binocular (454). We had, in                 (3) filled            (4) threatened           (3) treasure       (4) land
course of time, (455) many of the             463. (1) which              (2) whom
preconditions required for (456) tools.                                                     477. (1) our              (2) up
Moreover, there was now a real (457)                (3) them              (4) who                  (3) for            (4) on
in possessing a large brain and (458)         464. (1) posture            (2) pose          478. (1) once             (2) largely
communicating complex thoughts.                     (3) position          (4) posterior            (3) both           (4) really
Anyway, other things (459) equal, it is       465. (1) as                 (2) like          479. (1) fertilise        (2) nourish
better to be smart         (460)
                                                    (3) than              (4) about                (3) damage         (4) cause
 to be stupid.
                                              466. (1) frighten           (2) catch         480. (1) impoverish (2) improve
 451. (1) across           (2) under
                                                    (3) drive             (4) chase                (3) ruin           (4) indulge
        (3) into           (4) down
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