CBSE Class 12 English Cloze Test MCQs

Directions for questions (451–465): In the following questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in Passage-I and 5 questions in Passage-II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks, out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE I

Without water (451) animal can survive. In desert regions, the greatest (452) to life is drying up. But many creatures are able to make use of (453) little water that exists in arid areas. One of nature’s masterpieces, (454) creatures equipped to (455) with desert life is the hardy camel. There are several stories describing the (456) endurance of these animals. It is said that camels can (457) a distance of about 800 miles in eight days through continuous travel (458) an intake of a single drop of water. The popular (459) in a way is (460). Water is indeed stored, but in the form of fat.

Question 451.
(a) every
(b) no
(c) any
(d) desert
Answer : B

Question 452.
(a) want
(b) inadequacy
(c) requirement
(d) worry
Answer : D

Question 453.
(a) what
(b) the
(c) very
(d) that
Answer : B

Question 454.
(a) for
(b) about
(c) among
(d) with
Answer : C

Question 455.
(a) live
(b) resist
(c) bear
(d) cope
Answer : D

Question 456.
(a) remarkable
(b) little
(c) tolerable
(d) popular
Answer : A

Question 457.
(a) measure
(b) reduce
(c) cover
(d) reach
Answer : C

Question 458.
(a) for
(b) without
(c) accepting
(d) receiving
Answer : B

Question 459.
(a) proverb
(b) guess
(c) belief
(d) version
Answer : C

Question 460.
(a) baseless
(b) wrong
(c) misleading
(d) correct
Answer : C

PASSAGE II

About a million different species (461) insects have been identified. Yet little is (462) about some of them. Although insects vary so much in their shape and (463) they all have the (464) structure. All insects normally (465) six legs.

Question 461.
(a) for
(b) of
(c) about
(d) in
Answer : B

Question 462.
(a) known
(b) observed
(c) seen
(d) found
Answer : A

Question 463.
(a) colour
(b) height
(c) size
(d) habits
Answer : C

Question 464.
(a) different
(b) alike
(c) same
(d) single
Answer : C

Question 465.
(a) has
(b) have
(c) had
(d) got
Answer : B

Directions for questions (466–480): In the following questions, you have following 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

Parents tend to spoil their own children either by over-indulgence or by deprivation. Childhood should be the time for (466) from primary selfishness to sharing, for learning to (467) with deprivation and disappointment and learning to (468) failure, since breaking a toy and forgetting a homework assignment are (469) serious than breaking a marriage or forgetting to prepare for career advancement. But (470) deprivation, as is common in (471) , leaves many children (472) the stage of personal gratification. They lack resources for developing a sense of towards (473) others and a wish to care for them. And children (474) be poor to be underprivileged. The (475) are also deprived, cheated out of learning how to face life.

Question 466.
(a) changing
(b) turning
(c) shifting
(d) removing
Answer : C

Question 467.
(a) cope up
(b) adjust
(c) fight
(d) cope
Answer : D

Question 468.
(a) overcome
(b) eliminate
(c) remove
(d) forget
Answer : A

Question 469.
(a) far better
(b) far less
(c) far worse
(d) far more
Answer : B

Question 470.
(a) much
(b) exhaustive
(c) excessive
(d) every
Answer : C

Question 471.
(a) undernourished
(b) uncoordinated
(c) uncooperative
(d) underprivileged
Answer : D

Question 472.
(a) stuck in
(b) stuck on
(c) stuck about
(d) stick in
Answer : A

Question 473.
(a) gratitude
(b) responsibility
(c) concern
(d) friendship
Answer : B

Question 474.
(a) would not
(b) should not
(c) need not
(d) had not
Answer : C

Question 475.
(a) overconfident
(b) overcautious
(c) over enthusiastic
(d) over indulged
Answer : D

PASSAGE II

Auctions are public (476) of goods, conducted by an (477) auctioneer. He encourages buyers to (478) higher prices and finally names the (479) bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called ‘ knocking down’ the goods, for when the bidding ends the auctioneer (480). a small hammer on a table in front of him.

Question 476.
(a) sale
(b) marketing
(c) promotion
(d) viewing
Answer : A

Question 477.
(a) authoritative
(b) allowed
(c) authentic
(d) approved
Answer : D

Question 478.
(a) bid
(b) buy
(c) get
(d) bargain
Answer : A

Question 479.
(a) smartest
(b) highest
(c) biggest
(d) strongest
Answer : B

Question 480.
(a) bangs
(b) thrashes
(c) smashes
(d) hits
Answer : A

Directions for questions (481–490): 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.

Broadly speaking letters may be said to (481) into two classes, the formal and (482). Formal letters (483) of official or business matters and are (484) to an employer, officials of a department or institutions. Letters to the (485) of a newspaper also belong to this class. In fact, all (486) using formal pattern is of this category. The (487) has to be precisely stated. It must be (488) style and quite (489) No (490) element has any place in it.

Question 481.
(a) fall
(b) rise
(c) escape
(d) describe
Answer : A

Question 482.
(a) affectionate
(b) personal
(c) foreign
(d) official
Answer : B

Question 483.
(a) deal
(b) contain
(c) apprise
(d) consist
Answer : C

Question 484.
(a) respected
(b) addressed
(c) prayed
(d) typed
Answer : B

Question 485.
(a) publisher
(b) salesman
(c) editor
(d) printer
Answer : C

Question 486.
(a) correspondence
(b) writing
(c) columns
(d) articles
Answer : A

Question 487.
(a) objection
(b) criticism
(c) essay
(d) language
Answer : C

Question 488.
(a) lucid
(b) high
(c) florid
(d) descriptive
Answer : A

Question 489.
(a) critical
(b) creative
(c) subjective
(d) objective
Answer : D

Question 490.
(a) divisive
(b) wicked
(c) personal
(d) untidy
Answer : D

Directions for questions (491–500): 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.

‘Quit India’ came not from the lips but the aching hearts of millions. In this open rebellion, the Indian (491) reached its climax. The British were not only (492) by it, but also were obliged to quit unilaterally. The importance of Quit India can be (493) from Lord Linlithgow’s statement, “I am engaged here in meeting by far the most (494) rebellion since that of 1857, the gravity and extent of which we have so far (495) from the world for reasons of military security.” Still more significant was Churchill’s gloomy disclosure to the King Emperor that, “the idea of (496) of power had become an admitted (497) in the minds of British party leaders.” Although his public statements were diametrically opposite. The (498) created by Quit India made the British (499) that they could no longer keep India in (500).

Question 491.
(a) freedom
(b) patriotism
(c) liberation
(d) revolution
Answer : B

Question 492.
(a) threatened
(b) inspired
(c) attacked
(d) impressed
Answer : A

Question 493.
(a) diffused
(b) gauged
(c) established
(d) determined
Answer : B

Question 494.
(a) trivial
(b) magnificent
(c) serious
(d) auspicious
Answer : C

Question 495.
(a) excluded
(b) elicited
(c) prevented
(d) concealed
Answer : C

Question 496.
(a) transfer
(b) seizure
(c) grabbing
(d) retainment
Answer : A

Question 497.
(a) tactics
(b) fantasy
(c) inevitability
(d) occurrence
Answer : C

Question 498.
(a) violence
(b) taboos
(c) vengeance
(d) anarchy
Answer : D

Question 499.
(a) imagine
(b) pretend
(c) realise
(d) anxious
Answer : C

Question 500.
(a) power
(b) bondage
(c) exile
(d) suspense
Answer : B

Directions for questions (501–510): 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.

India and 25 other countries agreed to the Copenhagen Accord even as other developing countries accepted it as an irreversible decision later. The Accord came out of (501) bargaining lasting almost 20 hours among (502) of governments of some of the most (503) countries of the world. At the (504) of the day on Saturday, India (505) to have given ground on some (506) but blocked intrusion on other red lines. It had become (507) within the first week of the (508) that the best, even the four emerging and (509) economies of the developing world were going to defend the (510) economic resource sharing regimes.

Question 501.
(a) difficult
(b) hard
(c) easy
(d) early
Answer : B

Question 502.
(a) rulers
(b) kings
(c) heads
(d) chiefs
Answer : C

Question 503.
(a) influential
(b) corrupted
(c) useless
(d) beautiful
Answer : A

Question 504.
(a) middle
(b) evening
(c) night
(d) end
Answer : D

Question 505.
(a) proved
(b) appeared
(c) viewed
(d) cleared
Answer : B

Question 506.
(a) materials
(b) thoughts
(c) issues
(d) discussions
Answer : C

Question 507.
(a) evident
(b) ambiguous
(c) vague
(d) indecisive
Answer : A

Question 508.
(a) accord
(b) talks
(c) issues
(d) thoughts
Answer : B

Question 509.
(a) economic
(b) political
(c) powerful
(d) praiseworthy
Answer : C

Question 510.
(a) expected
(b) existing
(c) resultant
(d) consequential
Answer : B