English: Cloze Test for upcoming exams – Set 82

Directions: In the passage given below there are 6 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Every blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the work given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.

An architecture has emerged for the Government to tackle the _(1)__ (broad)bad loan problem of state-owned banks. There is now a Banks Board Bureau to _(2)__ (draw)new top managers for banks and act as a _(3)__ (shelter)between banks and the Government to ensure proper governance. There is also an insolvency and bankruptcy code which is a single legal window, so to speak, to speed up the process for _(4)__(frame) of bad debts. Though these measure will take time to show results, they can be termed the good part of the _(5)__(manufacture). The indifferent part is the Government empowering itself to ask the RBI to direct banks to initiate _(6)__(doings) under the code and also form committees to give banks directions in this regard.

1. A) big
   B) massive
   C) huge
   D) mammoth
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   Option B 

2. A) choose
   B) select
   C) pick
   D) accept
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   Option C 

3. A) screen
   B) barrier
   C) buffer
   D) shield
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   Option C 

4. A) resolution
   B) solution
   C) fortitude
   D) tenacity
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   Option A 

5. A) organisation
   B) architecture
   C) structure
   D) fabrication
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   Option B 

6. A) dealings
   B) actings
   C) deeds
   D) proceedings
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   Option D 

Directions: In the passage given below there are 6 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Every blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the work given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.

Countries find it easier to get rich once their neighbours already are. East Asia’s growth pattern has for decades been likened to a _(1)__ (flocks) of geese, from Japan at the _(2)__ (watchman) to_(3)__(safegaurd) such as Myanmar at the rear. The same pattern can often be seen within big countries. Over the past decade, for example, China’s poorer provinces have grown faster than their wealthier _(4)__(management). India is different. Far from converging, its states are getting ever more unequal. A recent shake-up in the tax system might even make matters worse.

Bar a few Mumbai penthouses and Bangalore startup offices, all parts of India are relatively poor by global standards. Taken together, its 1.3bn people make up roughly the third and fourth decile of the world’s population, with an income per person (adjusted for purchasing power) of $6,600 dollars. But that average conceals a vast gap. In Kerala, a southern state, the average resident has an annual income per person of $9,300, higher than Ukraine, and near the global median. With just $2,000 or so, an Indian in Bihar, a landlocked state of 120m people, is closer to a citizen of Mali or Chad, in the bottom _(5)__(decent) globally.

The gap has been widening. In 1990, point out Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia of the IDFC Institute, a think-tank, India’s three richest large states had incomes just 50% higher than the three poorest—roughly the same__(6)__(fogged)as in America or the EU today, and more equal than in China. Now the trio is three times richer.

1. A) yarn
   B) skein
   C) thread
   D) length
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   Option B 

2. A) scout
   B) front
   C) contrariwise
   D) vanguard
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   Option D 

3. A) slacks
   B) dangles
   C) laggards
   D) drones
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   Option C 

4. A) earls
   B) peers
   C) lords
   D) jury
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   Option B 

5. A) tile
   B) mercantile
   C) percentage
   D) decile
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   Option D 

6. A) disparity
   B) divergence
   C) variance
   D) separation
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   Option B 

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