CLOZE TEST
839. (i) = ?                                     (3) conclusive                     the raising of animals is known as (v)
       (1) estimate      (2) invent              (4) credible                       farming. Animals, however, were chief-
       (3) found         (4) discover      848. (iv) = ?                            ly used to provide meat and milk, they
                                                                                    were yet to be used as beasts of bur-
840. (iv) = ?                                    (1) recommended
                                                                                    den or to draw the plough.
       (1) inventing (2) explaining              (2) remarked
                                                                                    856. (iii) = ?
       (3) discovering (4) operating             (3) revised
                                                                                            (1) business       (2) farming
841. (x) = ?                                     (4) restored
                                                                                            (3) rural          (4) agricultural
       (1) easy          (2) able          849. (i) = ?
                                                                                    857. (v) = ?
       (3) comfortable(4) pleased                (1) circulated (2) conducted
                                                                                            (1) joined         (2) blended
842. (ii) = ?                                    (3) employed (4) maintained
                                                                                            (3) united         (4) mixed
       (1) software      (2) laptops       850. (iii) = ?
                                                                                    858. (ii) = ?
       (3) gadgets       (4) screens             (1) content      (2) dilemma
                                                                                            (1) authorised (2) enabled
843. (vii) = ?                                   (3) ground       (4) deliberation
                                                                                            (3) modified       (4) rendered
       (1) on            (2) in            851. (x) = ?
       (3) at            (4) to                                                     859. (iv) = ?
                                                 (1) discomfort
844. (iii) = ?                                                                              (1) gained         (2) obtained
                                                 (2) dilemma
       (1) Research (2) Program                                                             (3) attained       (4) achieved
                                                 (3) consideration
       (3) Experiment                                                               860. (i) = ?
                                                 (4) disturbance
       (4) Industry                        852. (ii) = ?                                    (1) amassed
845. (viii) = ?                                  (1) exposed      (2) inferred              (2) concentrated
       (1) ability       (2) talent              (3) revealed     (4) concurred             (3) strengthened
       (3) possibility (4) master          853. (ix) = ?                                    (4) intensified
       Directions (846–855) : In the             (1) distract     (2) repulse             Directions (861–870) : In the
following passage, there are blanks                                                 following questions in the passage
                                                 (3) presume      (4) attract
each of which has been numbered.                                                    some of the words have been left out.
Against each, four words are suggest-      854. (v) = ?
                                                                                    Read the passage carefully and choose
ed. Find out the appropriate word in             (1) employing (2) devolving        the correct answer to each question
each case.                                       (3) revolving    (4) involving     out of the four alternatives and fill in
   (SSC CGL Tier-II Exam, 25.10.2015, TF   855. (vi) = ?                            the blanks.
                              No. 2148789)       (1) fastidious (2) finicky                       (SSC CHSL (10+2) LDC, DEO
       In a survey (i) by a library, it          (3) stingy       (4) fussy                       & PA/SA Exam, 15.11.2015
was recently (ii) that parents wish their        Directions (856–860) : Read the                   (Ist Sitting) TF No. 6636838)
children to read books with high mor-      passage carefully and choose the cor-          If you (861) to be free from all
al (iii). Around two thousand parents      rect answer to each question out of      physical aches and pains and enjoy
were interviewed and most of them (iv)     the four alternatives and fill in the    perfect physical harmony, then put
Dickens ‘The Christmas Carol’ is a         blanks.                                  your mind in order and (862) your
must-read for children. This Christ-                                                thoughts. Think joyful thoughts, think
                                              (SSC CGL Tier-II Exam, 25.10.2015, TF
mas tale (v) the filthy rich, (vi) Scrooge                             No. 2148789) loving thoughts; Let the (863) of good-
and the poor contented Cratchit fam-                                                will (864) through your veins, and you
                                                 How the domestication of ani-
ily offers lessons in moral duties. An-                                             will need no other medicine. (865) your
                                           mals began is not known. Perhaps,
other book which many parents                                                       jealousies, your suspicions, your wor-
                                           there were large number of animals in
marked out as a (vii) read was Aus-                                                 ries, your hatred, your selfish indul-
                                           areas near water where men also were
ten’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. The choice                                             gences, and you will put away your
                                           (i). Here man could observe the ani-
of this book was rather (viii), because,                                            indigestion, your sickness, your (866)
                                           mals and study their habits, and this
this romantic novel is more likely to                                               and (867). If you will (868) clinging
                                           knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame
(ix) teenagers, than children. Since                                                to these (869) and demoralizing hab-
                                           them. It was again, easy for (iii) peo-
Elizabeth’s final choice of Darcy is                                                its of minds, then do not complain when
                                           ple to domesticate animals and feed
deeply rooted in strong moral (x), the                                              your body is (870) sickness.
                                           them on the husks of the grain that
parents, probably thought, she offers                                               861. (1) can                (2) would
                                           were left after threshing. In any event,
a good example for the girl child to
                                           sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and             (3) want            (4) will
follow.
                                           later horses and asses were tamed        862. (1) regularize         (2) co-ordinate
846. (viii) = ?                            and kept in pens. Man, thus, (iv) food           (3) harmonize       (4) regulate
       (1) unfortunate                     from the soil and also from animals.
       (2) unsuspected                                                              863. (1) elixir             (2) sweetness
                                           In the pens, the animals could be ob-
       (3) unnerving                                                                        (3) generosity      (4) potion
                                           served even more closely. Calves suck-
       (4) unexpected                      ling milk must have given man the idea   864. (1) gather             (2) course
847. (vii) = ?                             that he too could get food other than            (3) run             (4) race
       (1) reconciliatory                  meat from cows and goats. This prac-     865. (1) ignore             (2) throw off
       (2) mandatory                       tice which combines agriculture with             (3) discard         (4) cast away
                                                           SEE–883