English: Cloze Test for Upcoming Exams – Set 107

Directions: In the passage given below there are 10 blanks. Every blank has A PAIR OF four alternative words given in options first 4 options. You have to tell which PAIR is APPROPRIATE according to the context. Mark that appropriate pair as your answer. If none of the options is appropriate, mark ‘None of these’.

Most economists might hazard a guess that _____1_____ the bulk of a country’s currency overnight would dent its immediate growth prospects. On November 8th India took this____2_____ thought experiment into the real world, scrapping two banknotes which made up 86% of all rupees in circulation. Predictably, the economy appears indeed to have been ____3_____ by the sudden “demonetisation”. Evidence of the measure’s costs is mounting, while the benefits look ever more uncertain.
At least the new year has brought a semblance of monetary normality. For seven weeks queues had ____4____ around banks, the main way for Indians to exchange their old notes for new ones or deposit them in their accounts. That is over, largely because the window to exchange money closed on December 30th. The number of fresh notes that can be withdrawn from ATMs or bank counters is still curtailed, but the acute cash shortage is ______5________ ,at least in big cities.
As data trickle through, so is evidence of the economic price paid for demonetisation. Consumers, companies and investors all _____6_____ in late 2016. Fast-moving consumer goods, usually a reliable growth sector, _____7______ by 1-1.5% in November, according to Nielsen, a research group. Bigger-ticket items seem to have been hit harder. Year-on-year sales at Hero Motocorp, the biggest ______8_______ of two-wheelers, slid by more than a third in December.
A survey of purchasing managers in manufacturing ____9_____ from relative optimism throughout 2016 to the expectation of mild contraction. Firms’ investment proposals fell from an average of 2.4trn rupees ($35bn) a quarter to just 1.25trn rupees in the one just ended, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a data provider. As a result, corporate-credit growth, already _____10_____ , has reached its lowest rate in at least 30 years .

  1. canceling, blanking
    voiding, abrogating
    emptying, nullifying
    invalidation, rescinding
    All are correct
    Option E

     

  2. occult, lucid
    esoteric, obvious
    arcane, facile
    abtruse, intricate
    All are correct
    Option D

     

  3. quit, limped
    free, clogged
    hobbled, fettered
    will, crimpled
    All are correct
    Option C

     

  4. snaked, meandered
    towed, twisted
    serpented, lurked
    hauled, twisted
    All are correct
    Option E

     

  5. subduing, accruing
    mitigating, amplifying
    allevating, abloom
    abating, dwindling
    All are correct
    Option D

     

  6. wobbled, fluctuated
    steady, trembled
    secrued, oscillated
    tottered, still
    All are correct
    Option A

     

  7. bated, allayed
    curtailed, debased
    retrenched, reduced
    abridged, entrenched
    All are correct
    Option C

     

  8. bawd, guest
    grocer, frequenter
    purveyor, provisioner
    manciple, disburser
    All are correct
    Option C

     

  9. doused, lurched
    plummeted, emersed
    plunged, hurled
    slid, hesitated
    All are correct
    Option C

     

  10. ghastly, active
    cadaverous, strong
    anaemic, pallid
    effete, yellow
    All are correct
    Option C

     



 

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6 Thoughts to “English: Cloze Test for Upcoming Exams – Set 107”

  1. Lee64

    6/10
    Thnks AZ
    Tough 1….

  2. PR@D$$P

    4/10 dhaga khol diya..:)

  3. ahtesham ahmed

    7/10

  4. Divaker

    4/10 kya hoga

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