CLOZE TEST
               PASSAGE–II                    563. (1) heel           (2) ankle           576. (1) shelter        (2) feet
       One rainy day I watched a neigh-            (3) knee          (4) shoulder              (3) land          (4) surface
bour (556) to push her toddler in a          564. (1) questioned (2) spoke               577. (1) economical (2) historical
pram with one hand and control her                 (3) tried         (4) stated                (3) geographical (4) political
Doberman with the other. The dog
                                             565. (1) much           (2) some            578. (1) threatened (2) feared
didn’t want to get its feet wet and was
                                                   (3) no            (4) little                (3) effected      (4) dominated
refusing to walk. I was about to put
on my jacket and offer (557) help            566. (1) quickly        (2) fastly          579. (1) strength       (2) power
when the trio disappeared (558) some               (3) softly        (4) rapidly               (3) force         (4) ability
hedges. When they reappeared, she            567. (1) after          (2) later           580. (1) everything (2) nothing
(559) to have sorted out her problem:              (3) ago           (4) following             (3) something (4) anything
the toddler, attached to the dog’s leash,    568. (1) join           (2) insert          581. (1) this day       (2) today
was (560) running through mud pud-                 (3) plug          (4) connect               (3) lately        (4) at present
dles, and the dog was in the pram.
                                             569. (1) power          (2) wires           582. (1) efforts        (2) strength
 556. (1) was struggling
                                                   (3) companies (4) supply                    (3) capacity      (4) tasks
       (2) struggling                        570. (1) arrived        (2) reached         583. (1) watching       (2) directing
       (3) to struggle                             (3) started       (4) appeared              (3) opposing      (4) combating
       (4) being struggle                                   PASSAGE–II                   584. (1) any            (2) some
 557. (1) few            (2) lot                   The thermometer is an instru-               (3) every         (4) all
       (3) the           (4) some           ment for measuring temperature. The
 558. (1) behind         (2) on                                                          585. (1) scientists     (2) humanity
                                            (571) form consists of a (572) tube
       (3) above         (4) to             with a fine (573). One end of the                  (3) people        (4) mankind
 559. (1) seem           (2) was            (574) is blown to form (575) bulb and                       PASSAGE II
       (3) seemed        (4) looked         the other is closed.                               As well as I could make out, she
                                             571. (1) seen           (2) unseen          had come for good, and had no inten-
 560. (1) joyously       (2) generally
                                                   (3) heard         (4) common          tion of ever going again. She began
       (3) hardly        (4) fiercely
                                             572. (1) brass          (2) glass           (586) help my mother (587) morning,
        Directions (561 – 575) : In the                                                  and was (588) and out of (589) store
following questions, you have follow-              (3) plastic       (4) metal
                                                                                         closet all (590), putting things to right,
ing two brief passages with 10 ques-         573. (1) boar           (2) cavity
                                                                                         and making havoc in the old arrange-
tions in Passage -I and 5 questions in             (3) mole          (4) bore            ment.
Passage - II. Read the passages care-        574. (1) tube           (2) edge            586. (1) to              (2) so
fully and fill up the blanks with suit-            (3) centre        (4) place
able words out of the four alternatives                                                        (3) of             (4) with
                                             575. (1) that           (2) a
given.                                                                                   587. (1) tomorrow        (2) next
                                                   (3) all           (4) an
             (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry                                                      (3) later          (4) soon
                                                   Directions (576-590) : In each
        Operator & LDC Exam. 21.10.2012                                                  588. (1) out             (2) off
                                            of the following two questions, you
                              (2nd Sitting) have following two brief passages with             (3) of             (4) in
                PASSAGE-I                   10 questions in Passage I and 5 ques-        589. (1) the             (2) there
       “My new machine is so (561) that     tions in Passage II. Read the passag-              (3) then           (4) thus
it will even suck out ground-in dust        es carefully and fill in the blanks with     590. (1) days            (2) day
and dirt (562) this”. As he spoke, he       suitable words out of the four alterna-            (3) thing          (4) things
used his (563) to press the soot and        tives given.                                        Directions (591-605) : In the
dust into the carpet.                                    (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry    following questions, you have follow-
       The old lady (564) again, but                Operator & LDC Exam. 28.10.2012      ing two brief passages with 10 ques-
without (565) success as the young                                         (1st Sitting) tions in Passage I and 5 questions in
man had (566) gone out of the front                                                      Passage II. Read the passages care-
                                                            PASSAGE I
door.                                                                                    fully and fill in the blanks with suit-
       A few minutes (567) , he reap-              There is an enemy beneath our
                                            (576). He recognises no national             able words out of the four alternatives
peared with a very modern-looking                                                        given.
vacuum cleaner. ‘Now, where can I           boundaries, no (577) parties. Every-
                                            one in the world is (578) by him. The                     (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry
(568) this in ?’ he asked.
                                            enemy is the Earth itself. The (579) of             Operator & LDC Exam. 28.10.2012
       ‘’Probably the next village, about
                                            a quake is greater than (580) man him-                                      (1st Sitting)
ten miles away”, replied the old lady.
                                            self can produce. But, (581) scientists                     PASSAGE I
“The electricity (569)       hasn’t (570)
                                            are directing more of their (582) into
here yet”.                                                                                      Any regular viewer of p ro-
                                            finding some way of (583) earthquakes
 561. (1) expensive      (2) strong                                                      grammes on the television will certainly
                                            and it is possible that at (584) time in
       (3) organized     (4) effective                                                   have some reservations about com-
                                            the near future, (585) will have dis-
                                                                                         mercials. When television shows are
 562. (1) like           (2) such           covered a means of protecting itself
                                                                                         (591) good, the commercials that (592)
       (3) as            (4) similar        from it.
                                                                                         them are a disgrace. One of the many
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