CBSE Class 7 English Cloze Test Assignment

Directions for questions (756–765): in the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

There are certainly some things in common between science and religion. Both want the (756) of mankind. Only their ways and (757) are different. Then, both of them (758) to have truth as their basis. Religion (759) that the truth it (760) should be believed in with a blind (761). Science says that it should be studied, (762) tested and only then relied upon. If during (763) some new truth or new aspect of the truth (764) science is ready to accept (765). But religion is not ready for research experiment and change in whatever has already been accepted or revealed.

Question 756.
(a) goodwill
(b) goodness
(c) welfare
(d) best
Answer : C

Question 757.
(a) manner
(b) demonstration
(c) style
(d) methods
Answer : D

Question 758.
(a) say
(b) claim
(3)assure
(d) promise
Answer : B

Question 759.
(a) wants
(b) promotes
(c) shows
(d) forces
Answer : A

Question 760.
(a) proclaims
(b) announces
(c) creates
(d) ensures
Answer : A

Question 761.
(a) belief
(b) mind
(c) faith
(d) trust
Answer : C

Question 762.
(a) touched
(b) felt
(c) seen
(d) probed
Answer : D

Question 763.
(a) hypothesis
(b) research
(c) meditation
(d) concentration
Answer : B

Question 764.
(a) emerges
(b) comes
(c) presents
(d) revealed
Answer : B

Question 765.
(a) these
(b) this
(c) it
(d) them
Answer : C

Directions for questions (766–775): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Indu ‘didda’ loved to wear saris. Her (766) collections, which Sonia inherited, were remarkable for not only (767) taste, but also the (768) of weaves and traditional representations. I do not think any other public figure (769) the first five decades after independence was so (770) to acquire saris of distinct (771) as ‘didda’ did. (772) you noticed this fact when meeting her, you not only joined her circle of (773) persons on traditional textiles, (774) also got a chance to bring her (775) to the cause you were espousing. Now this was very rare.

Question 766.
(a) private
(b) peculiar
(c) personnel
(d) particular
Answer : A

Question 767.
(a) extravagant
(b) worthy
(c) good
(d) suitable
Answer : C

Question 768.
(a) uniformity
(b) mixture
(c) extent
(d) variety
Answer : D

Question 769.
(a) with
(b) in
(c) for
(d) since
Answer : B

Question 770.
(a) keen
(b) attracted
(c) earnest
(d) enthusiastic
Answer : A

Question 771.
(a) base
(b) wave
(c) weave
(d) length
Answer : C

Question 772.
(a) When
(b) Also
(c) If
(d) But
Answer : C

Question 773.
(a) snobbish
(b) knowledgeable
(c) smart
(d) wonderful
Answer : B

Question 774.
(a) hence
(b) so
(c) thus
(d) but
Answer : D

Question 775.
(a) notice
(b) attention
(c) observation
(d) concern
Answer : B

Directions for questions (776–780): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with tile help of the alternatives given.

I have always been nervous and keyed up at onset of any operation. With Louwtzie next to me, I became even more tense. There was a sense of (776) between us which did not belong in the theatre. It was something electrical, a sort of involuntary interlocking of our (777) selves, which she could not (778) any more than I would. Inevitably, this was a (779) at the operating table. The ritual of command and interlacing of hands and instruments demand a totally different (780)

Question 776.
(a) futility
(b) consistency
(c) hostility
(d) intimacy
Answer : D

Question 777.
(a) projected
(b) protracted
(c) distracted
(d) frustrated
Answer : C

Question 778.
(a) sever
(b) help
(c) solve
(d) suffer
Answer : A

Question 779.
(a) proposition
(b) sufferance
(c) disturbance
(d) contraction
Answer : A

Question 780.
(a) companionship
(b) partnership
(c) relationship
(d) studentship
Answer : C

Directions for questions (781–790): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Hawthorne had not (781) this sudden dismissal. He (782) thought they would scold him as usual, (783) now he had no job. What (784) he to tell Sophia? Sophia (785) Hawthorne’s wife. He had not told her (786) about his troubles (787) the office. How was he going to support her (788) himself from now on? He walked home slowly. (789) his wife saw him, he (790) miserable.

Question 781.
(a) selected
(b) attempted
(c) expected
(d) detected
Answer : C

Question 782.
(a) has
(b) was
(c) did
(d) had
Answer : D

Question 783.
(a) and
(b) because
(c) but
(d) since
Answer : C

Question 784.
(a) will
(b) was
(c) is
(d) could
Answer : C

Question 785.
(a) is
(b) and
(c) be
(d) was
Answer : A

Question 786.
(a) anything
(b) something
(c) each thing
(d) nothing
Answer : A

Question 787.
(a) for
(b) with
(c) at
(d) by
Answer : C

Question 788.
(a) from
(b) and
(c) without
(d) against
Answer : B

Question 789.
(a) Then
(b) Although
(c) When
(d) However
Answer : C

Question 790.
(a) pretended
(b) behaved
(c) looked
(d) showed
Answer : C

Directions for questions (791–800): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Bollywood is the informal term (791) used for the Hindi-language film industry (792) in Mumbai, India. The term is (793) incorrectly used to refer to the (794) of Indian cinema; it is only a (795) of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is the (796) film producer in India and one of the largest (797) of film production in the (798). The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the (799) name for Mumbai and Hollywood, the (800) of the American film industry.

Question 791.
(a) ultimately
(b) popularly
(c) singularly
(d) deliberately
Answer : B

Question 792.
(a) constructed
(b) accommodated
(c) based
(d) dedicated
Answer : C

Question 793.
(a) often
(b) regularly
(c) intermittently
(d) less
Answer : A

Question 794.
(a) whole
(b) all
(c) full
(d) collection
Answer : A

Question 795.
(a) fraction
(b) little
(c) sample
(d) part
Answer : D

Question 796.
(a) active
(b) largest
(c) fastest
(d) negligible
Answer : B

Question 797.
(a) grounds
(b) theatres
(c) studios
(d) centres
Answer : D

Question 798.
(a) world
(b) land
(c) area
(d) state
Answer : A

Question 799.
(a) early
(b) local
(c) former
(d) political
Answer : C

Question 800.
(a) area
(b) focus
(c) symbol
(d) head
Answer : C

Directions for questions (801–810): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Experts are beginning to suspect that one of the major (801) of crime in modern cities is the actual design of the city. Oscar Newman, a professor of architecture, in his book titled ‘Defensible Space’ has (802) the results of his research on this question. The effect of environment (803) crime is twofold. Prof. Newman’s research shows that some buildings may encourage people not only to interfere but to allow crimes to (804). Crowded apartments in a huge block bring people physically together but isolate them (805). People living in what is (806) one building with a common entry fell isolated within their own apartments. They are unconcerned (807) their neighbours. Some years ago, a girl was stabbed to death (808) a period of half an hour, while hundreds of people living in the block (809) without interfering, without even calling the police. The other obvious effect of the design of buildings is that it affords room for crimes. Hidden nooks and corners, spaces between buildings out of (810) are convenient spots where crimes can be committed without the fear of detection.

Question 801.
(a) expositions
(b) causes
(c) theories
(d) results
Answer : B

Question 802.
(a) published
(b) printed
(c) predicted
(d) pasted
Answer : A

Question 803.
(a) on
(b) in
(c) over
(d) about
Answer : A

Question 804.
(a) witness
(b) show
(c) appear
(d) happen
Answer : D

Question 805.
(a) spiritually
(b) cognitively
(c) intellectually
(d) mentally
Answer : D

Question 806.
(a) essentially
(b) deliberately
(c) accidentally
(d) ideologically
Answer : C

Question 807.
(a) for
(b) with
(c) about
(d) at
Answer : B

Question 808.
(a) between
(b) through
(c) over
(d) across
Answer : C

Question 809.
(a) viewed
(b) studied
(c) observed
(d) watched
Answer : D

Question 810.
(a) sight
(b) vision
(c) visual
(d) observation
Answer : A

Directions for questions (811–820): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

One of the myths relevant to the contemporary human condition is that of Prometheus. It has positive and optimistic (811). Man, can better himself and aspire (812) higher worlds through his own efforts, (813), in the process, he may (814) terrible tribulations, wars, revolutions, tortures of the (815) and the spirit. Time and again he would be tempted to throw, (816) the towel, or retire into (817) and to the dream world of drugs and (818). But he will not, if made of the (819) of Prometheus, b diverted. He will stick (820) his goal, as Prometheus did in stealing fire from the Gods, suffering terrible retribution for his pains.

Question 811.
(a) signals
(b) morals
(c) echoes
(d) undertones
Answer : C

Question 812.
(a) in
(b) into
(c) to
(d) after
Answer : C

Question 813.
(a) and
(b) though
(c) yet
(d) still
Answer : A

Question 814.
(a) resist
(b) experience
(c) challenge
(d) suffer
Answer : B

Question 815.
(a) heart
(b) body
(c) mind
(d) soul
Answer : D

Question 816.
(a) up
(b) in
(c) away
(d) off
Answer : A

Question 817.
(a) wilderness
(b) meditation
(c) obscurity
(d) passivity
Answer : D

Question 818.
(a) stimulants
(b) luxuries
(c) delusions
(d) deceptions
Answer : B

Question 819.
(a) stuff
(b) material
(c) substance
(d) blood
Answer : C

Question 820.
(a) by
(b) to
(c) in
(d) on
Answer : B