CLOZE TEST
 967. (1) legislate      (2) reclaim      980. (1) selves          (2) state
                                                                                       990. (1) see                (2) hear
       (3) start         (4) maintain          (3) city            (4) country               (3) imagine           (4) say
 968. (1) ensuing        (2) entangles                    Passage-III
                                                                                           Directions (991–1000) : In the
       (3) ensures       (4) ensnares         (Question Nos. 981 to 990)              following questions, in the passage
 969. (1) akin           (2) defective        One day when king Rama was sit-         some of the words have been left out.
                                         ting on his (981) his ring fell off. When    Read the passage carefully and choose
       (3) mindful       (4) alert
                                         it touched the earth, it made a hole in      the correct answer to each question
 970. (1) digest         (2) inhale      the ground and disappeared into it. It       out of the four alternatives and fill in
       (3) assent        (4) apprise     was (982). His trusty henchman, Ha-          the blanks.
                 Passage-II              numan, was (983) his feet. Rama said                   (SSC (10+2) Stenographer Grade
      (Question Nos. 971 to 980)         to Hanuman, “Look, my ring is lost.                           ‘C’ & ‘D’ Exam. 31.01.2016
       Since the U.S. led alliance top-  (984) it for me.”                                                          TF No. 3513283)
pled the Taliban (971) November 2001,         Now Hanuman can enter any hole,              I will always (991) the trip I made
women and girls in Afghanistan have      no matter how tiny. He had the power         to the zoo in 1988. It was then that I
(972) greater freedom to participate     to become the smallest of the small          (992) measles from one of my friends.
in public life and (973) to education,   and larger than the largest thing. So        Peter, who had (993) along too.
health care, and employment. This is     he took on a (985) form and went                  Before he met us at the zoo, he
the case particularly in the (974), Kab- down the hole.                               had gone to visit his cousin who was
ul, where the deployment of foreign           He went and went and went and           (994) from measles. The next day,
military forces under the Internation-   (986) fell into the netherworld. There       Peter was (995) of a sore throat, a bad
al Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has  were women down there. “Look, a tiny         cold and high fever. When he was di-
helped bring (975) security. Even in     monkey ! It’s fallen from above? Then        agnosed by a doctor as having mea-
Kabul, however, many Afghan women        they caught him and placed him on a          sles, his parents rang me up to warn
still face constant (976) to their per-  platter (thali). The King of Spirits (bhut), me that I had been (996) to measles
sonal security from other civilians or   who lives in the netherworld, likes to       too. By the next day, I was also show-
armed men belonging to various polit-    eat animals. So Hanuman was sent to          ing/having the same symptoms. My
ical (977). Outside Kabul, the situa-    him as part of his dinner, along with        doctor (997) me to stay at home for
tion is one of acute general lawless-    his vegetables. Hanuman sat on the           the next two weeks.
ness and insecurity, as there is no ISAF platter, (987) what to do.                        I was quite pleased with the doc-
presence and rival warlords control           While this was going on in the          tor’s instruction. I spent the time read-
security conditions. In these areas,     netherworld, Rama sat on his throne          ing story-books, (998) to music and
more than in Kabul, Afghan women         on the earth above. The (988) Vasist-        watching television. When I get bored,
continue to (978) serious threats to     ha and the (989) Brahma came to see          I would call up Peter, who also had to
their physical safety, which (979) them  him. They said to Rama, “We want to          spend two weeks at home, for a chat.
the opportunity to exercise their basic  talk privately with you. We don’t want       Unfortunately, the two weeks passed
human rights and to participate fully    anyone to (990) what we say or inter-        too/by quickly. When we (999) to
in the rebuilding of their (980).        rupt it. Do we agree ?” “All right.” said    school, we had to work twice as hard
 971. (1) on             (2) at          Rama, “We’ll talk.”                          to (1000) with our classmates. It was
       (3) from          (4) in           981. (1) throne          (2) rock           definitely not worth the ‘holiday’.
 972. (1) submitted      (2) gained            (3) bench           (4) chair           991. (1) remember
       (3) surrendered (4) volunteered    982. (1) gone            (2) vanished               (2) remembered
 973. (1) success        (2) progress                                                         (3) be remember
                                               (3) molten          (4) returned
       (3) regress       (4) access                                                           (4) remembering
                                          983. (1) on              (2) in
 974. (1) locality       (2) country                                                   992. (1) catch            (2) will catch
                                               (3) at              (4) under
       (3) capital       (4) outskirts                                                        (3) caught         (4) catching
                                          984. (1) Replace         (2) Make            993. (1) went              (2) gone
 975. (1) less-needed                          (3) Return          (4) Find
       (2) much-admired                                                                       (3) going          (4) go
                                          985. (1) tiny            (2) substantial     994. (1) recover          (2) revealed
       (3) less-known
                                               (3) corporeal       (4) humungous              (3) removed        (4) recovering
       (4) much-needed
                                          986. (1) gradually                           995. (1) complained (2) complain
 976. (1) threats
                                               (2) surreptitiously                            (3) complaining (4) explained
       (2) lashes
       (3) demands                             (3) cleverly                            996. (1) exposed           (2) exposing
       (4) opportunities                       (4) suddenly                                   (3) expose         (4) exposable
 977. (1) factions       (2) actions      987. (1) wondering       (2) thundering      997. (1) advise           (2) advised
       (3) upheavals     (4) fractions         (3) plundering (4) wandering                   (3) is advised (4) advising
 978. (1) evade          (2) bear         988. (1) wife            (2) daughter        998. (1) listening        (2) looking
       (3) face          (4) oppose            (3) sage            (4) animal                 (3) listen          (4) listened
 979. (1) approves       (2) allows       989. (1) Hanuman         (2) God             999. (1) returning (2) is returned
       (3) provides      (4) denies            (3) women           (4) Spirit king            (3) return          (4) returned
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