CBSE Class 6 English Cloze Test MCQs

Directions for questions (91–100): In the following passage, there are each options that has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Every month, scientists (i) new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) (ii) and (such as computer games and MP3s) (iii) suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem (iv) a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology (v) and different. But if you’re a teenager who criticizes your parents for their (vi) of technological awareness, don’t be too hard on them! Sometime (vii) the future, when you’ve got children of your own, your (viii) to deal with new technology will probably (Ix) and your children will feel more (x) with new technology than you do.

Question 91. (vi) = ?
(a) lack
(b) effect
(c) amount
(d) storage
Answer : A

Question 92. (v) = ?
(a) complicated
(b) automatic
(c) unique
(d) sudden
Answer : A

Question 93. (ix) = ?
(a) decrease
(b) please
(c) able
(d) easy
Answer : A

Question 94. (i) = ?
(a) estimate
(b) invent
(c) found
(d) discover
Answer : B

Question 95. (iv) = ?
(a) inventing
(b) explaining
(c) discovering
(d) operating
Answer : D

Question 96. (x) = ?
(a) easy
(b) able
(c) comfortable
(d) pleased
Answer : C

Question 97. (ii) = ?
(a) software
(b) laptops
(c) gadgets
(d) screens
Answer : C

Question 98. (vii) = ?
(a) on
(b) in
(c) at
(d) to
Answer : B

Question 99. (iii) = ?
(a) Research
(b) Program
(c) Experiment
(d) Industry
Answer : A

Question 100. (viii) = ?
(a) ability
(b) talent
(c) possibility
(d) master
Answer : A

Directions for questions (101–110): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Against each, four words are suggested. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

In a survey (i) by a library, it was recently (ii) that parents wish their children to read books with high moral (iii). Around two thousand parents were interviewed and most of them (iv) Dickens ‘The Christmas Carol’ as a must-read for children. This Christmas tale (v) the filthy rich, (vi) Scrooge and the poor contented Cratchit family offers lessons in moral duties.Another book which many parents marked out as a (vii) read was Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. The choice of this book was rather (viii), because, this romantic novel is more likely to (ix) teenagers, than children. Since Elizabeth’s final choice of Darcy is deeply rooted in strong moral (x), the parents, probably thought, she offers a good example for the girl child to follow.

Question 101. (viii) = ?
(a) unfortunate
(b) unsuspected
(c) unnerving
(d) unexpected
Answer : D

Question 102. (vii) = ?
(a) reconciliatory
(b) mandatory
(c) conclusive
(d) credible
Answer : B

Question 103. (iv) = ?
(a) recommended
(b) remarked
(c) revised
(d) restored
Answer : A

Question 104. (i) = ?
(a) circulated
(b) conducted
(c) employed
(d) maintained
Answer : B

Question 105. (ill) = ?
(a) content
(b) dilemma
(c) ground
(d) deliberation
Answer : A

Question 106. (x) = ?
(a) discomfort
(b) dilemma
(c) consideration
(d) disturbance
Answer : C

Question 107. (ii) = ?
(a) exposed
(b) inferred
(c) revealed
(d) concurred
Answer : C

Question 108. (ix) = ?
(a) distract
(b) repulse
(c) presume
(d) attract
Answer : D

Question 109. (v) = ?
(a) employing
(b) devolving
(c) revolving
(d) involving
Answer : D

Question 110. (vi) = ?
(a) fastidious
(b) finicky
(c) stingy
(d) fussy
Answer : C

Directions for questions (111–115): Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large number of animals in areas near water where men also were (i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus, (iv) food from the soil and from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely.
Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known as (v) farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.

Question 111. (iii) = ?
(a) business
(b) fanning
(c) rural
(d) agricultural
Answer : D

Question 112. (v) = ?
(a) joined
(b) blended
(c) united
(d) mixed
Answer : D

Question 113. (ii) = ?
(a) authorized
(b) enabled
(c) modified
(d) rendered
Answer : B

Question 114. (iv) = ?
(a) gained
(b) obtained
(c) attained
(d) achieved
Answer : B

Question 115. (i) = ?
(a) amassed
(b) concentrated
(c) strengthened
(d) intensified
Answer : B

Directions for questions (116–125): 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.

If you (116) to be free from all physical aches and pains and enjoy perfect physical harmony, then put your mind in order and (117) your thoughts. Think joyful thoughts, think laving thoughts; Let the (118) of goodwill (119) through your veins, and you will need no other medicine. (120) your jealousies, your suspicions, your worries, your hatred, your selfish indulgences, and you will put away your indigestion, your sickness, your (121) and (122). If you will (123). clinging to these (124) and demoralizing habits of minds, then do not complain when your body is (125) sickness.

Question 116.
(a) can
(b) would
(c) want
(d) will
Answer : C

Question 117.
(a) regularize
(b) coordinate
(c) harmonize
(d) regulate
Answer : C

Question 118.
(a) elixir
(b) sweetness
(c) generosity
(d) potion
Answer : A

Question 119.
(a) gather
(b) course
(c) run
(d) race
Answer : C

Question 120.
(a) ignore
(b) throw off
(c) discard
(d) cast away
Answer : B

Question 121.
(a) confidence
(b) nervousness
(c) worries
(d) happiness
Answer : C

Question 122.
(a) mercy
(b) despair
(c) paining
(d) joy
Answer : A

Question 123.
(a) continue to
(b) indulge in
(c) care to
(d) persisting
Answer : A

Question 124.
(a) unruly
(b) unhealthy
(c) good
(d) worse
Answer : B

Question 125.
(a) affected to
(b) laid up with
(c) lying with
(d) laid low with
Answer : D

Directions for questions (126–135): 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.

In civilized life there is a rule (126) violence, against taking the (127) into our hands. It is a rule which (128) of us observe so often, indeed, that a great (129) of people go through life (130) orderliness and non-violence as part of the scheme of nature. But when (131) cornea into their midst (132) refuses to observe the current rules, and (133) the simple rule that might is right, the law-abiding members (134) society do not know what to do, and look on in (135) bewildered confusion.

Question 126.
(a) upon
(b) after
(c) at
(d) against
Answer : D

Question 127.
(a) law
(b) police
(c) people
(d) rule
Answer : A

Question 128.
(a) every
(b) most
(c) none
(d) many
Answer : D

Question 129.
(a) sum
(b) amount
(c) number
(d) capacity
Answer : C

Question 130.
(a) accepting
(b) not expecting
(c) expecting
(d) not accepting
Answer : A

Question 131.
(a) everyone
(b) no one
(c) any one
(d) none
Answer : C

Question 132.
(a) whom
(b) who
(c) how
(d) where
Answer : B

Question 133.
(a) follow
(b) following
(c) followed
(d) follows
Answer : D

Question 134.
(a) on
(b) of
(c) at
(d) in
Answer : B

Question 135.
(a) helpful
(b) helping
(c) helped
(d) helpless
Answer : D

Directions for questions (136–145): 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.

Squirrels are (136) animals in the world. They have the (137) for rainy days. Autumn can be very entertaining for them. That is the time (138) the great harvest collection for their winter store. You can (139) here and there, collecting nuts of all sorts. Walnuts, beechnuts, chestnuts, dried berries.
They are not fussy. Relentlessly, they run from their storage point, usually a tree hollow, to the vast amount of wild nuts to be found in the forest.
These beautiful animals are house-proud. They take great pains to ensure that (140) and warm enough to tide them (141) the harsh winter. You busily collecting soft pieces of bark, wood and leaves to line their nests. After all their, (142) and when the first, cold hard frost arrives, they (143) inside their nests for the duration/rest of the cold spell. There, (144) till it is warm enough to bring out their stored food. Ah but then again, they are the most forgetful little animals, and it is not unusual to see squirrels (145) their hoards.

Question 136.
(a) the more resource
(b) this most resourceful
(c) the most resource
(d) the pat resourceful
Answer : D

Question 137.
(a) knack of saving down
(b) knack of saving on
(c) knack of saved up
(d) knack of saving up
Answer : D

Question 138.
(a) what they begin
(b) when they begin
(c) when their begin
(d) when them begin
Answer : B

Question 139.
(a) see them scampering
(b) seeing them scampered
(c) seen them scampering
(d) see their scampering
Answer : A

Question 140.
(a) their nest is secure
(b) their nest is securing
(c) they nest is secure
(d) there nest is secure
Answer : A

Question 141.
(a) is saw them
(b) will seen them
(c) will saw them
(d) will see them
Answer : D

Question 142.
(a) scavenging is done
(b) scavenged is done
(c) scavenged was done
(d) scavenging is doing
Answer : C

Question 143.
(a) will sealing themselves
(b) will be seal themselves
(c) will seal themselves
(d) are seal themselves
Answer : C

Question 144.
(a) they will hibernating
(b) they are hibernated
(c) them will hibernate
(d) they will hibernate
Answer : D

Question 145.
(a) search desperate at
(b) searching desperates for
(c) searching desperately for
(d) searched desperately for
Answer : C

Directions for questions (146): 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.

Although we can (146) the (147) bodies of our solar system (148) a telescope, it is only (149) who can (150) the depths of outer space. It is reported that they have seen, (151) galaxies, stars taking (152) and (153), and ‘black holes’. They say that the deeper they look (154) the universe, the more they know (155) the universe originated.

Question 146.
(a) observe
(b) look
(c) reach
(d) find
Answer : A

Question 147.
(a) heaven
(b) heavier
(c) heavy
(d) heavenly
Answer : D

Question 148.
(a) at
(b) by
(c) through
(d) with
Answer : C

Question 149.
(a) astronomers
(b) astrology
(c) astrologers
(d) astronomy
Answer : A

Question 150.
(a) views
(b) overview
(c) view
(d) viewed
Answer : C

Question 151.
(a) stunned
(b) stunning
(c) shine
(d) stun
Answer : B

Question 152.
(a) borne
(b) birth
(c) berth
(d) born
Answer : B

Question 153.
(a) dyeing
(b) died
(c) die
(d) dying
Answer : D

Question 154.
(a) at
(b) on
(c) through
(d) into
Answer : D

Question 155.
(a) why
(b) how
(c) where
(d) what
Answer : B