CBSE Class 8 English Cloze Test Assignment

Directions for questions (821–830): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

(821) the common (822), the ostrich does not burry its head in the sand to (823) danger. An ostrich can run (824) a speed of forty - five miles (825) hour, kick powerfully and (826) aggressively (827) its beak. As the (828) and the fasted bird in the world. It (829) need to (830) its head.

Question 821.
(a) In keeping with
(b) As per
(c) According to
(d) Contrary to
Answer : D

Question 822.
(a) fact
(b) view
(c) expectation
(d) belief
Answer : D

Question 823.
(a) resist
(b) avoid
(c) face
(d) encounter
Answer : B

Question 824.
(a) with
(b) for
(c) at
(d) to
Answer : C

Question 825.
(a) one
(b) per
(c) a
(d) every
Answer : B

Question 826.
(a) peck
(b) play
(c) Push
(d) poke
Answer : A

Question 827.
(a) on
(b) through
(c) with
(d) by
Answer : C

Question 828.
(a) larger
(b) largest
(c) more large
(d) large
Answer : B

Question 829.
(a) doesn’t
(b) did
(c) does
(d) didn’t
Answer : A

Question 830.
(a) put
(b) cover
(c) shield
(d) bury
Answer : D

Directions for questions (831–840): 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.

Scientists have developed an electronic circuit that (831) the wiring of the human brain in some ways - an achievement that (832) revolutionize computer science and (833) the understanding of how nature’s most powerful (834) works. The jog built on a chip the size of a finger nail, is (837) from the thinking machines of science-fiction: For one thing, it cannot (838), the way the (839) can. But researchers say it could (840) in better speech and object recognition by computers.

Question 831.
(a) imitates
(b) mimics
(c) limits
(d) expands
Answer : B

Question 832.
(a) shall
(b) ought
(c) could
(d) have
Answer : C

Question 833.
(a) exceed
(b) improve
(c) impair
(d) develop
Answer : B

Question 834.
(a) processor
(b) electronic system
(c) circuit
(d) brain
Answer : B

Question 835.
(a) computer
(b) monitor
(c) system
(d) circuit
Answer : D

Question 836.
(a) silicon
(b) minute
(c) big
(d) brown
Answer : A

Question 837.
(a) for
(b) above
(c) beyond
(d) far
Answer : D

Question 838.
(a) equate
(b) teach
(c) learn
(d) recognise
Answer : C

Question 839.
(a) computer
(b) processor
(c) chip
(d) brain
Answer : D

Question 840.
(a) yield
(b) give
(c) respond
(d) result
Answer : D

Directions for questions (841–850): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out and the blanks have been numbered from 91 to 100. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the alternatives given.

The Aryans (841) about northern Asia and Europe over the wide grasslands. But as their numbers grew and the climate became drier and the land (842), there was not (843) food for all of them to eat. (844) they were forced to move to other parts of the world in search of (845). They spread out all over Europe and (846) to India, Persia and Mesopotamia. Thus, we find that nearly all the people of Europe and northern India and Persia and Mesopotamia, although they differ so much (847) each other now, are descendants from the same (848), the Aryans. Of course, this was very long (849) and since then much has happened and races have got mixed up to a large extent. The Aryans are, (850) one great ancestral race of the people of the world today.

Question 841.
(a) wandered
(b) wondered
(c) worked
(d) worried
Answer : A

Question 842.
(a) grassful
(b) green
(c) grassless
(d) dead
Answer : C

Question 843.
(a) full
(b) enough
(c) plenty
(d) grass
Answer : B

Question 844.
(a) So
(b) As
(c) Because
(d) Yet
Answer : A

Question 845.
(a) riches
(b) money
(c) shelter
(d) food
Answer : D

Question 846.
(a) went
(b) came
(c) come
(d) has come
Answer : B

Question 847.
(a) to
(b) with
(c) on
(d) from
Answer : B

Question 848.
(a) friends
(b) family
(c) ancestors
(d) Aryans
Answer : C

Question 849.
(a) ago
(b) time
(c) period
(d) wait
Answer : A

Question 850.
(a) so
(b) since
(c) therefore
(d) but
Answer : D

Directions for questions (851–860): 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.

The language problem is not solved by deciding the medium of instruction in the educational institutions. The problem of (851) between State governments still (852). At present, each State government is (853) the process of (854) the (855) language as the medium for (856) purposes. Then they need for a stable language for (857) communication (858). Moreover, the Central government shall (859) adopt a language for (860) own official work.

Question 851.
(a) communication
(b) information
(c) intimation
(d) decision
Answer : A

Question 852.
(a) stays
(b) remains
(c) resides
(d) rests
Answer : B

Question 853.
(a) into
(b) through
(c) with
(d) in
Answer : D

Question 854.
(a) adapting
(b) imposing
(c) thrusting
(d) adopting
Answer : D

Question 855.
(a) local
(b) mother
(c) regional
(d) foreign
Answer : C

Question 856.
(a) governmental
(b) officious
(c) administrative
(d) religious
Answer : C

Question 857.
(a) inter-state
(b) regional
(c) international
(d) intra-state
Answer : A

Question 858.
(a) comes up
(b) rises
(c) crops up
(d) persists
Answer : A

Question 859.
(a) having to
(b) have to
(c) had been
(d) have been
Answer : B

Question 860.
(a) its
(b) their
(c) our
(d) his
Answer : A

Directions for questions (861–870): 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.

In most enterprises around the world, it is the information technology infrastructure that is undergoing the most rapid upgradation. Perhaps this is a direct result of the rate of (861) in the information technology industry, an, with new (863) and business (864) invading our consciousness every day. In this context, it is the (865) of this new technology that looms (866) as an issue (867) the chief information officers of end-user organizations. Given the (868) of magnitude (869) the investments required and associated (870) in human terms in order to effect change of this magnitude, this concern is hardly surprising.

Question 861.
(a) rejection
(b) growth
(c) obsolescence
(d) magnificence
Answer : B

Question 862.
(a) Where
(b) Hence
(c) What
(d) Since
Answer : B

Question 863.
(a) armies
(b) agencies
(c) enemies
(d) technologies
Answer : D

Question 864.
(a) relations
(b) prospects
(c) applications
(d) agreements
Answer : B

Question 865.
(a) absorption
(b) development
(c) delineation
(d) filtration
Answer : B

Question 866.
(a) large
(b) wide
(c) across
(d) close
Answer : A

Question 867.
(a) eluding
(b) facing
(c) confounding
(d) comprising
Answer : C

Question 868.
(a) order
(b) priority
(c) quality
(d) gravity
Answer : D

Question 869.
(a) in
(b) on
(c) for
(d) of
Answer : D

Question 870.
(a) choices
(b) costs
(c) feelings
(d) possibilities
Answer : B

Directions for questions (871–880): 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.

A man can be physically (871) within stone walls and iron bars. His (872) movement and action may thus be (873). But his mind and spirit will (874) remain free. His hopes and (875), ideals and ambitions will remain with him. (876) tyranny or oppression can (877) the lover of liberty. The cruelty of the British, (878), increased the zeal and (879) of the freedom fighters. No prison, no oppression can ever (880) the invincible spirit of man.

Question 871.
(a) prevailed
(b) prevented
(c) confined
(d) limited
Answer : C

Question 872.
(a) want
(b) freedom
(c) nature
(d) way
Answer : B

Question 873.
(a) rejected
(b) adjusted
(c) prevented
(d) restricted
Answer : D

Question 874.
(a) seldom
(b) often
(c) still
(d) hardly
Answer : C

Question 875.
(a) aspirations
(b) attributes
(c) achievements
(d) needs
Answer : A

Question 876.
(a) all
(b) little
(c) full
(d) no
Answer : D

Question 877.
(a) prevent
(b) prevail
(c) reduce
(d) intimidate
Answer : D

Question 878.
(a) only
(b) rarely
(c) hardly
(d) narrowly
Answer : A

Question 879.
(a) mind
(b) determination
(c) want
(d) discrimination
Answer : B

Question 880.
(a) kindle
(b) lower
(c) reject
(d) extinguish
Answer : B

Directions for questions (881–890): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

When we visited the volcano, it was in a state of (881). We stood near tip of the (882) on an irregular plane. It was heaped (883) stones and cinders and (884) rocks which had been regularly (885) out from the volcano.
During the volcanic eruption, large quantities of rocks and stones were hurled out from the summit in terrible (886). From the summit volumes (887) smoke and fountains of liquid fire (888) forth continuously. The smoke now white, now impenetrably black was (889) by a deep fiery roar. Stones (890) down and the molten lava moved on with a horrible sound.

Question 881.
(a) movement
(b) eruption
(c) ejection
(d) insertion
Answer : B

Question 882.
(a) point
(b) summit
(c) path
(d) curve
Answer : B

Question 883.
(a) on
(b) in
(c) with
(d) by
Answer : C

Question 884.
(a) slanting
(b) curving
(c) pointed
(d) big
Answer : D

Question 885.
(a) flung
(b) toppled
(c) distanced
(d) over-flown
Answer : A

Question 886.
(a) cahn
(b) confusion
(c) horror
(d) speed
Answer : D

Question 887.
(a) in
(b) about
(c) of
(d) with
Answer : C

Question 888.
(a) flew
(b) extracted
(c) poured
(d) oozed
Answer : D

Question 889.
(a) together
(b) turned
(c) stuck
(d) accompanied
Answer : D

Question 890.
(a) rose
(b) ascended
(c) rained
(d) poured
Answer : D