English : Cloze Test for NICL and other exams– Set 58

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Direction (1-5): In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Even 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

HAVE investors become irrationally exuberant? That is the biggest question (1)  (dropping) over global stockmarkets. Despite tumultuous politics across much of the rich world, share prices are reaching ever (2)  (modest) heights. After breaking the 20,000 barrier in January, the Dow Jones Industrial Average swiftly passed 21,000 earlier this month. In Britain the FTSE 100 has been (3)  (slicing) up fresh records, too. The MSCI World Index has hit an all-time high.

At first sight, the warning signals are flashing. The recent (4)  (lining) of Snap, an internet firm that is yet to make a profit, brought back memories of the dotcom boom; its shares soared by 44% on their first day of trading (although they have fallen back since). By historical standards, (5)  (enlighten) in the American market are worryingly dear. The cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio, which averages profits over ten years, is just under 30, according to Robert Shiller of Yale University. Only twice has it been higher—in the late 1990s, during the internet boom, and just before the crash of 1929.

  1. A) challenging
    B) releasing
    C) hanging
    D) working
    E) No Change Required
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    Option C
  2. A) loftier
    B) drafty
    C) severe
    D) regal
    E) No Change Required
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    Option A
    Explanation
    : loftier- of imposing height.
  3. A) winding
    B) working
    C) notching
    D) suggesting
    E) No Change Required
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    Option C
    Explanation
    : notching- score or achieve (something)
  4. A) footing
    B) flotation
    C) disapproval
    D) platform
    E) No Change Required
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    Option B
    Explanation
    : floatation- the process of offering a company’s shares for sale on the stock market for the first time.
    The next line says about a company whose share soared on the first day of trading. So floatation suits best
  5. A) dedication
    B) opinion
    C) awareness
    D) valuations
    E) No Change Required
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    Option D
    Explanation
    : valuations- an estimation of the worth of something

Direction (6-10): In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Even 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

OF LIFE’s two certainties, death cannot be (6)  (shifted) even by the well-to-do. Taxes are another matter. (7)  (Quantifying) quite how much they manage to keep from the taxman, however, has always been tricky. One common approach governments take is to conduct randomised audits of tax returns. This methodology can give (8)  (customers) a rough sense of overall tax revenues lost. But it is far from ideal. For instance, studies based on randomised tax audits are usually both too small and too (9)  (cheap) to reflect accurately the financial shenanigans of the most (10)  (informal) tax-dodgers: the super-rich.

  1. A) leaked
    B) dodged
    C) released
    D) encountered
    E) No Change Required
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    Option B
    Explanation
    : dodged- avoided
  2. A) specifying
    B) dominating
    C) ignoring
    D) ruling
    E) No Change Required
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    Option E
    Explanation
    : Quantifying – measure the quantity of.
  3. A) regulators
    B) defaulters
    C) generators
    D) rich
    E) No Change Required
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    Option A
  4. A) risky
    B) definite
    C) crude
    D) fundamental
    E) No Change Required
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    Option C
    Explanation
    : crude – likely to be only approximately accurate.
  5. A) drastic
    B) egregious
    C) radical
    D) dismal
    E) No Change Required
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    Option B
    Explanation
    : egregious – dominating/powerful

 

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