CBSE Class 4 English Cloze Test MCQs

Directions for questions (1–10): In the following questions, in the 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.

I will always (1) the trip I made to the zoo in 1988. It was then that I (2) measles from one of my friends. Peter, who had (3)along too. Before he met us at the zoo, he had gone to visit his cousin who was (4) from measles. The next Peter was (5) of a sore throat, cold and high fever. When he was diagnosed by a doctor as having measles, his parents rang me up to warn me that I had been (6) to measles too. By the next day, I was also showing/having the same symptoms. My doctor (7) me to stay at home for the next two weeks.
I was quite pleased with the doctor’s instruction. I spent the time reading story- books, (8) to music and watching television. When I get bored, I would call up Peter, who also had to spend two weeks at home, for a that. Unfortunately, the two weeks passed too/by quickly. When we (9) to school, we had to work twice as hard to (10) with our classmates. It was definitely not worth the ‘holiday’.

1.
(a) remember
(b) remembered
(c) be remember
(d) remembering
Answer : A

2.
(a) catch
(b) will catch
(c) caught
(d) catching
Answer : C

3.
(a) went
(b) gone
(c) going
(d) go
Answer : B

4.
(a) recover
(b) revealed
(c) removed
(d) recovering
Answer : D

5.
(a) complained
(b) complain
(c) complaining
(d) explained
Answer : C

6.
(a) exposed
(b) exposing
(c) expose
(d) exposable
Answer : A

7.
(a) advise
(b) advised
(c) is advised
(d) advising
Answer : B

8.
(a) listening
(b) looking
(c) listen
(d) listened
Answer : A

9.
(a) returning
(b) is returned
(c) return
(d) returned
Answer : D

10.
(a) caught up
(b) catching up
(c) catch up
(d) catch
Answer : C

Directions for questions (11–20): In the following questions, in the 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.

The Red Indians (11) for the arrival of the bison. The beasts, which come only once a year, are a good source of meat and hide. The Red Indians (12) to survive the cold, bitter winter.Tikki, the young boy, (13) to look out for herd’s arrival. Every day, he (14) to the top of the hill to see if he could spot them on the vast horizon.
One night, while he (15) the ground shook (16) and his bag of arrows fell off from its hook on the wall. Tikki (17) of his wigwam and felt a strong gust of wind and dust gush past him. Shouting excitedly, he ran to the other wigwams and woke everyone up. A big fire (18) built and the Red Indians danced around it, giving praises to their God who had, at last, (19) their food and clothing of animal hide. The next morning, all the warriors (20) to hunt down the beasts which were grazing near the riven

11.
(a) were waiting
(b) is waiting
(c) were waited
(d) are waited
Answer : A

12.
(a) needing these
(b) needed these
(c) needed their
(d) needing this
Answer : B

13.
(a) was choose
(b) is choose
(c) was chose
(d) was chosen
Answer : D

14.
(a) would running
(b) will running
(c) would run
(d) will be running
Answer : C

15.
(a) is sleep
(b) was sleeping
(c) was sleep
(d) were slept
Answer : B

16.
(a) violently
(b) violence
(c) violent
(d) violet
Answer : A

17.
(a) rushing out
(b) rush out
(c) rushed out
(d) rushed in
Answer : C

18.
(a) were immediately
(b) was immediate
(c) were immediate
(d) was immediately
Answer : D

19.
(a) send them
(b) sent them
(c) sent their
(d) send their
Answer : B

20.
(a) is assigned
(b) was assigning
(c) were assigned
(d) were assigning
Answer : C

Directions for questions (21–25): 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.

A team of Indian engineers (21) shown that digital photographs of the hand may (22) cholesterol levels in the body and serve as an early warning signal (23) poor lipid health without a standard blood test. Researchers believe the programme may be (24) in the future and (25) into mobile phones to enable it to analyse digital images of the hand captured in the camera on a mobile phone.

21.
(a) are
(b) has been
(c) have
(d) has
Answer : D

22.
(a) reveal
(b) conceal
(c) conduct
(d) conjecture
Answer : A

23.
(a) of
(b) by
(c) before
(d) at
Answer : A

24.
(a) retracted
(b) refined
(c) recorded
(d) resolved
Answer : D

25.
(a) fixed
(b) formulated
(c) featured
(d) loaded
Answer : D

Directions for questions (26–30): In the following questions of the 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.

PASSAGE
Darkness (i) began to (ii) on all side. So I could not have any (iii) view of the things that (iv) along our way. Our train stopped at two important stations before we (v)our home town.

26. (i) = ?
(a) incidentally
(b) gradually
(c) initially
(d) prudentially
Answer : B

27. (ii) = ?
(a) descend
(b) condescend
(c) ascend
(d) transcend
Answer : A

28. (iii)= ?
(a) contradict
(b) precinct
(c) instinct
(d) distinct
Answer : D

29. (iv) = ?
(a) lain
(b) lied
(c) lay
(d) laid
Answer : C

30. (v) = ?
(a) had reached
(b) reach
(c) readied
(d) have readied
Answer : C