CBSE Class 10 English Cloze Test MCQs

Directions for questions (331–355): In the following passages some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

PASSAGE 1

The presence of certain (331) makes friendship a special (332). A (333) friend is consistent and honest. A (334) is not (335) to give an honest (336) and does not say things for the sake of getting (337). A friend provides companionship and continuous (338).There is no room for pride, (339) or rivalry in (340).

Question 331.
(a) qualities
(b) qualify
(c) frequencies
(d) degrees
Answer : A

Question 332.
(a) hardship
(b) courtship
(c) scholarship
(d) relationship
Answer : D

Question 333.
(a) true
(b) truth
(c) truthful
(d) truly
Answer : A

Question 334.
(a) befriend
(b) friendship
(c) friend
(d) friendly
Answer : C

Question 335.
(a) fear
(b) afraid
(c) fright
(d) fret
Answer : B

Question 336.
(a) opinion
(b) concern
(c) dominion
(d) suggestion
Answer : A

Question 337.
(a) approval
(b) approve
(c) appear
(d) disapproval
Answer : A

Question 338.
(a) support
(b) supportive
(c) suppress
(d) provide
Answer : A

Question 339.
(a) jeopardize
(b) jealousy
(c) humility
(d) open-mindedness
Answer : B

Question 340.
(a) friendship
(b) friendly
(c) befriend
(d) courtship
Answer : A

PASSAGE II

Whenever I (341) at the moon, my heart (342) with pleasure. I wish I had (343) to fly up to the moon. I know if I could (344) to become an (345). would be able to go to the moon. Special equipment and (346) training are required to go to the moon. I would have to wear a special (347) along with a gas-mask for (348). My space shuttle would be equipped with (349) cameras and other scientific (350)

Question 341.
(a) looked
(b) saw
(c) viewed
(d) gaze
Answer : D

Question 342.
(a) fills
(b) filled
(c) field
(d) feels
Answer : A

Question 343.
(a) hands
(b) wings
(c) legs
(d) feelers
Answer : B

Question 344.
(a) grow up
(b) maw
(c) blow
(d) show
Answer : A

Question 345.
(a) astrology
(b) astronomy
(c) astronaut
(d) aristocrat
Answer : C

Question 346.
(a) special
(b) ordinary
(c) common
(d) natural
Answer : A

Question 347.
(a) trousers
(b) spacecraft
(c) space-suit
(d) space formula
Answer : C

Question 348.
(a) breadth
(b) breathing
(c) bathing
(d) breathe
Answer : B

Question 349.
(a) sensitive
(b) touchy
(9) primitive
(d) decorative
Answer : A

Question 350.
(a) accessory
(b) things
(c) intuition
(d) gadgets
Answer : D

PASSAGE III

Tennis is a game that gives one plenty of exercise; it develops (351) of eye and limb and (352) the brain too into (353). A few sets of tennis keep one physically and (354) fit. But for the indoors, chess is the queen of games. People say chess is a (355) game because only two can play.

Question 351.
(a) movement
(b) swiftness
(c) quickness
(d) agility
Answer : A

Question 352.
(a) commands
(b) asks
(c) signals
(d) calls
Answer : D

Question 353.
(a) response
(b) play
(c) work
(d) action
Answer : D

Question 354.
(a) intellectually
(b) emotionally
(c) mentally
(d) logically
Answer : C

Question 355.
(a) selfish
(b) mean
(c) carefree
(d) careless
Answer : B

Directions for questions (356–360): In each of the following questions, in the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

One fine morning a (356) man knocked at the doors of the home for the aged run by nuns. He told the nun in charge that as he was (357) to Delhi, he wanted to leave his maid-servant to the (358) of the nuns. He assured the nun of sending some money every month (359) she was an orphan. The nun (360) her, saying that she had got an excellent master.

Question 356.
(a) bad
(b) nice
(9) good
(d) gentle
Answer : D

Question 357.
(a) shifted
(b) changed
(c) transferred
(d) moved
Answer : C

Question 358.
(a) home
(b) custody
(c) protection
(d) care
Answer : D

Question 359.
(a) and
(b) though
(c) if
(d) because
Answer : D

Question 360.
(a) praised
(b) consoled
(c) condoled
(d) loved
Answer : A

Directions for questions (361–365): In each of the following questions in the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

Then he spent the next two hours finding different ways to (361) me like whining, burying his wet head in my lap, pawing at my legs, (362) to my every look or movement. Every time, I (363) up from my work, his deep brown eyes were (364) me and his tail thumped on the floor. So, that night in 1967, Booto, the wild dog from the (365) came into my lonely life.

Question 361.
(a) scold
(b) thank
(c) threaten
(d) receive
Answer : B

Question 362.
(a) reacting
(b) catching
(c) answering
(d) jumping
Answer : A

Question 363.
(a) woke
(b) looked
(c) shuffled
(d) opened
Answer : B

Question 364.
(a) with
(b) into
(c) by
(d) on
Answer : D

Question 365.
(a) town
(b) village
(c) street
(d) forests
Answer : C

Directions for questions (366–370): In the following questions, in the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

Meeting old school friends can be a strange experience. Some have changed so much that you can (366) recognize them. They speak with a different (367), are interested in different things, and all you can do is make (368) talk and hope they’ll go soon. Others, though you might have been out of (369) with them for years, are just the same as they always were; it’s (370) if you saw them yesterday.

Question 366.
(a) nearly
(b) almost
(c) hardly
(d) easily
Answer : C

Question 367.
(a) language
(b) accent
(c) way
(d) tongue
Answer : B

Question 368.
(a) small
(b) little
(c) silly
(d) gossip
Answer : B

Question 369.
(a) sight
(b) touch
(c) sound
(d) feel
Answer : B

Question 370.
(a) just
(b) like
(c) so
(d) as
Answer : D

Directions for questions (371–375): In the following questions, in the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

When I go into a stranger’s library I (371) around the bookshelves. This is to know the type of person he is and I feel that I know the (372) to his mind. A house without books is a (373) house, no matter how rich the carpets are.
These only tell you whether he (374) a lot of money, but the books tell you whether he has a mind as well. It is not a (375) of money, that we do not buy books.

Question 371.
(a) look
(b) wander
(c) wonder
(d) run
Answer : A

Question 372.
(a) key
(b) solution
(c) secret
(d) mystery
Answer : A

Question 373.
(a) unlucky
(b) bad
(c) characterless
(d) bleak
Answer : D

Question 374.
(a) have
(b) has had
(c) had
(d) has
Answer : D

Question 375.
(a) issue
(b) cause
(c) reason
(d) question
Answer : A

Directions for questions (376–390): In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 10 questions in passage I and 5 questions in passage II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE I

All forms of art have developed from religion (376) religious services. This is also true (377) writing poetry developed from the (378) sung in (379) of the early Gods, or from incantations sung (380) bring rain or victory in battle. Plays (381) from the dances (382) in (383) of the Gods. The novel has developed from the stories, (384) about the Gods. A novel is a story that is based (385) real-life.

Question 376.
(a) and
(b) or
(c) but
(d) yet
Answer : B

Question 377.
(a) in
(b) to
(c) of
(d) with
Answer : D

Question 378.
(a) songs
(b) lines
(c) rhymes
(d) words
Answer : A

Question 379.
(a) worship
(b) memory
(c) praise
(d) appreciation
Answer : C

Question 380.
(a) together
(b) to
(c) alone
(d) which
Answer : B

Question 381.
(a) developed
(b) evolved
(c) came
(d) wrote
Answer : B

Question 382.
(a) played
(b) enacted
(c) danced
(d) performed
Answer : D

Question 383.
(a) merit
(b) power
(c) honour
(d) praise
Answer : C

Question 384.
(a) deal
(b) explain
(c) said to
(d) told
Answer : D

Question 385.
(a) on
(b) about
(c) In
(d) through
Answer : A

PASSAGE II

Arabia is a (386) sandy desert. At day time, the sand becomes fiery. There are springs here and there (387) which grass, fig and palm trees grow and make a cool, shady (388) where the Arabs live in easily movable tents. They move from place to place in (389) of food. They load the (390) and move for miles as if he is the ship of the desert.

Question 386.
(a) narrow
(b) vast
(c) great
(d) broad
Answer : B

Question 387.
(a) around
(b) below
(c) above
(d) across
Answer : A

Question 388.
(a) garden
(b) park
(c) oasis
(d) pond
Answer : C

Question 389.
(a) want
(b) search
(c) lack
(d) shortage
Answer : B

Question 390.
(a) horse
(b) donkey
(c) camel
(d) cattle
Answer : C