CBSE Class 12 English Cloze Passages Assignment

Cloze Passages

Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the note about the Wangala Festival of Meghalaya.
The Wangala ___ (a) ___ festival for the Garo in Meghalaya, Assam and Nagaland. It is a post harvest festival ___ (b) ___ the end of the agricultural year. It is popularly known as ‘The Hundred Drums’ festival. During the signature dance, the leading warrior ___ (c) ___ with synchronised dance steps and specific hand-head movements.

Question. (a)
(a) is important
(b) are an important
(c) was the important
(d) is an important
Answer: (d)

Question. (b)
(a) being celebrated for marking
(b) celebrated to mark
(c) celebrated to marking
(d) being celebrated for mark
Answer: (b)

Question. (c)
(a) leads the youngsters
(b) is lead the youngsters
(c) was leading the youngsters
(d) had leads the youngsters
Answer: (a)

Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the notes about the Indian classical dances.
One of the eight forms of India’s classical dances, Kathak, meaning “story teller,” originated in northern India, and ___ (a) ___ to this dance form in sources dating from the third and fourth centuries B.C. Kathak dance which ___ (b) ___ by fast, rhythmic footwork, ___ (c) ___ court entertainment with the advent of Mogul culture in northern India.

Question. (a)
(a) there was references
(b) there are references
(c) there is reference
(d) there were reference
Answer: (b)

Question. (b)
(a) today is characterised
(b) today were characterise
(c) today were characterised
(d) today are characters
Answer: (a)

Question. (c)
(a) became sophisticate
(b) become sophisticated
(c) became sophisticated
(d) become sophisticate
Answer: (c)

Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the note about Raman Shah.
Raman Shah was sprinting his car to meet a business partner, when suddenly he ___ (a) ___ feeling a sharp pain in his chest. He felt as if someone ___ (b) ___ his chest. He began having trouble with his breathing and ___ (c) ___ seem to be in a proper frame of health.

Question. (a)
(a) start
(b) starting
(c) started
(d) starts
Answer: (c)

Question. (b)
(a) squeezing
(b) squeezed
(c) squeeze
(d) was squeezing
Answer: (d)

Question. (c)
(a) could not
(b) does not
(c) did not
(d) has not
Answer: (c)

Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the notes about Stella.
When the steamship Stella left Southampton on the afternoon before Good Friday ___ (a) ___ 1899 she was bound ___ (b) ___ with nearly two hundred passengers on board. Not long after the ship has started her voyage the sea ___ (c) ___ .

Question. (a)
(a) on the year
(b) in the year
(c) at the year
(d) in year
Answer: (b)

Question. (b)
(a) for the Channel Islands
(b) to the Channel Islands
(c) with the Channel Islands
(d) the Channel Islands
Answer: (a)

Question. (c)
(a) become covered with fog
(b) becoming covered with fog
(c) became covered with fog
(d) covered with fog
Answer: (c)

Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the note about nursing.
Modern scientific and technological developments, ___ (a) ___ medicine and public health, have drawn nursing into new and wider fields of activity, and ___ (b) ___ expanded accordingly. Therefore, nursing is no longer limited mainly to activities ___ (c) ___ , or to what is called curative nursing.

Question. (a)
(a) on the practice of
(b) in the practice of
(c) in the practice
(d) in the practice off
Answer: (b)

Question. (b)
(a) its functions have been
(b) it is function has been
(c) its functions has been
(d) its functions being
Answer: (a)

Question. (c)
(a) without the hospital
(b) with the hospital
(c) within the hospital
(d) within hospital
Answer: (c)