English Quiz: New Pattern Cloze Test

English Quiz: New Pattern Cloze Test

Direction (Q.1 - Q.10): In the passage given below there are blanks each of which has been numbered. The numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

The Cabinet decision to move ahead with the police modernization scheme with an ------(1)----- improved central share of resources is welcome. The scheme focuses on improving police -----(2) -----adjustability, weapons, equipment, training infrastructure, computerization, forensic science facilities and a crime and criminal tracking network. Effectively implemented, the scheme has potential to make the police force more effective. What the police force needs even more is structural change to free it from political -----(3)----- interposition and accountable, simultaneously, to the executive, the human rights ------(4)---- curator and an -----(5)---- dereliction committee of the
legislature. There is a need to address the huge manpower deficiencies: there is a shortfall of nearly 25 per cent compared to the -----(6)---- accredited strength. There is a need to separate the functions of investigation and maintaining law and order. An ------(7)----- enhance police force and the separation of functions will -----(8)---- gravel the way for improving the manner in which communities and police interact with each other. Improved community-police relations can help improve safety levels, and help --------(9)----- infur people’s faith in the police force. These measures together with improved communication and forensic science facilities will help -------(10)------- alter the police force.

Questions 1.

A.enhanced

B.redeemed

C.upgrade

D.debase

E.denounce

Questions 2.

A.portability

B.abuses

C.mobility 

D.flexibility

E.motility

Questions 3.

A.hindrance

B.assistance

C.falls

D.resistance

E.interference

Questions 4.

A.overseer

B.watchdog

C.keeper

D.steward

E.forcibly

Questions 5.

A.preterition

B.dissolve

C.oversight

D.dispensation

E.absorb

Questions 6.

A.sanctioned 

B.credited

C.customary

D.sovereign

E.statutory

Questions 7.

A.reinforce

B.aggrandize

C.diminish

D.Augmented 

E.rude

Questions 8.

A.pave 

B.plate

C.blessing

D.veneer

E.love

Questions 9.

A.infuse

B.engender

C.instill 

D.inculcate

E.dislodge

Questions 10.

A.thoroughly 

B.entirely

C.radically 

D.vitally

E.highly

Direction (Q.11 - Q.20): In the passage given below there are blanks each of which has been numbered. The numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Exporters will -----(11)---allegedly be -----(12)---immune from paying integrated goods and services tax (IGST) on imported inputs. An -----(13)---gross exemption to -----(14)---gravy up exports is a bad idea. It will lead to -----(15)---deviation of goods, and mess up GST that makes production efficient. Countries do not export local taxes charged on their products. So, exporters can claim credit for the IGST paid on inputs. Delays in settling the claims of input tax credit were not -----(16)---hurried. These -----(17)--- berthing troubles must be -----(18)---plunge to provide working capital for exporters, given that India needs exports to grow. As banks are flush with funds, they can rope in institutions such as Exim Bank, to give extra credit to exporters to tide over the delay in refunds. The government can help, making cheaper credit available through an interest -----(19)--- endowment. This is doable. Interest rates have fallen, and the government will not find it too expensive to -----(20)---furtherance exporters to meet their additional capital needs.

Questions 11.

A.purportedly

B.reportedly 

C.supposably

D.probably

E.lazily

Questions 12.

A.privileged

B.discharged

C.exempt 

D.liable

E.hindered

Questions 13.

A.ambiguous

B.outright

C.provisional

D.prays

E.surrender

Questions 14.

A.dividend

B.perk 

C.delay

D.loss

E.force

Questions 15.

A.digression

B.dissolve

C.diversion 

D.vocation

E.absorb

Questions 16.

A.unanticipated 

B.unforeseen

C.discussion

D.jerky

E.disassociation

Questions 17.

A.trothing

B.lightly

C.teeming

D.teething 

E.rude

Questions 18.

A.tackled

B.launch

C.undertake

D.praise

E.love

Questions 19.

A.benefaction

B.allocation

C.subvention 

D.subsidy

E.repudiation

Questions 20.

A.collaboration

B.reinforcement

C.assist 

D.assistance

E.backing

EXPLANATIONS

1. A. enhanced means to increase or improve the quality.

2. C. mobility is the ability to move further on.

3. E. interference means action of interfering.

4. B. watchdog means being wicked.

5. C. oversight means the action of overseeing.

6. A. sanctioned means approval or permission.

7. D. augmented means having made in size or greater value.

8. A. pave means 

9. C. instill means gradually or firmly establish.

10. C. radically means change or action affecting other terms.

11. B. reportedly means continuously.

12. C. exempt means free from an obligation.

13. B. outright means instantly.

14. B. perk means lively or interesting.

15. C. diversion means to turn something aside from a track.

16. A. unanticipated means not predicted.

17. D. teething means to increase or grow.

18. A. tackled means to handle.

19. C. subvention means to grant money.

20. C. assist means to help.