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Cloze test practice for bank exams such as IBPS, SBI PO and SSC, beginning with a short guide to what a cloze test is and how to tackle one. It then gives three passages with 30 fill-in-the-blank questions, each with five options, with answers and explanations. The passages cover the Chaturanga story, the decline of mime in cinema and the tale of the princess and the pea, testing collocations, prepositions and context clues.
Cloze Test
Cloze tests are common in all bank exams. They usually require you to choose the correct choice out of four possibilities.
A cloze test (also cloze deletion test) is an exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed (cloze text), where the participant is asked to replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct words or type of words that belong in the deleted passages of a text.
Example 1: A language teacher may give the following passage to students:
Today, I went to the ________ and bought some milk and eggs. I knew it was going to rain, but I forgot to take my ________, and ended up getting wet on the way ________.
Explanation: Students would then be required to fill in the blanks with words that would best complete the passage. Context in language and content terms is essential in most, if not all, cloze tests. The first blank is preceded by “the”; therefore, a noun, an adjective or an adverb must follow. However, a conjunction follows the blank; the sentence would not be grammatically correct if anything other than a noun were in the blank. The words “milk and eggs” are important for deciding which noun to put in the blank; “market” is a possible answer; depending on the student, however, the first blank could either be store, supermarket, shop or market while umbrella or raincoat fit the second.
Example 2: I saw a man lay his jacket on a puddle for a woman crossing the street. I thought that was very ______.
Explanation: Given the above passage, students' answers may then vary depending on their vocabulary skills and their personal opinions. However, the placement of the blank at the end of the sentence restricts the possible words that may complete the sentence; following an adverb and finishing the sentence, the word is most likely an adjective. Romantic, chivalrous or gallant may, for example, occupy the blank, as well as foolish or cheesy.
How to Tackle a Cloze Test
- Read the text through trying to understand the general meaning.
- Look at each missing word gap and try to imagine what the correct word should be.
- Decide which part of speech (adjective, noun, gerund, etc.) needs to be used to fill each gap.
- Read the text again, trying to fill a gap as you come to it by imagining what the correct answer should be.
- Read the text another time, this time choose the correct answer from the five answers given.
- If you are unsure of any given answer, try reading the sentence with each of the possibilities.
- Try to eliminate the obvious false choices.
- Always think about the overall meaning of the text (i.e., whether the text is negative, positive, etc.) to make sure that your answer choice fits the context.
- Trust your intuition. If you feel a word is right instinctively, it probably is correct.
Passage (Questions 1-10)
Directions (Qs. 1-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Fourteen centuries ago when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was (1) ______ about his people. A new game of dice, called hard, had (2) ______ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone - a roll of the dice - guided the (3) ______ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their (4) ______ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was (5) ______ the spirit of the kingdom.
Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courtier at his court, to find an answer to this (6) ______. After much (7) ______ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact (8) ______ of hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces. In the game these pieces - chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers - joined with a royal counselor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful (9) ______ was demanded of the players, not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than hard, and the (10) ______ to the Kingdom was over.
(a) concerned
(b) confident
(c) ignorant
(d) indifferent
(e) partisan
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Answer: (a) concerned
Explanation:
1. A ruler who worries about his subjects is 'concerned about' them; 'concerned about' is the fixed pairing.
2. 'Confident' and 'ignorant' do not fit the king who later acts to help his people, and 'indifferent' would be followed by 'to', not 'about'.
Teacher's Note:
1. Check the preposition after the blank: 'concerned about', 'indifferent to'.
2. The next sentences show the king acting, which confirms a caring tone.
(a) propelled
(b) enshrined
(c) captured
(d) activated
(e) enhanced
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Answer: (c) captured
Explanation:
1. 'Capture the imagination' is a standard collocation meaning to attract and hold people's interest.
2. 'Propelled', 'enshrined' or 'activated' cannot take 'imagination' as an object in this sense.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn fixed phrases such as 'capture the imagination' and 'catch the eye'.
2. Match the verb with its usual object noun.
(a) communities
(b) ways
(c) abnormalities
(d) destiny
(e) groups
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Answer: (d) destiny
Explanation:
1. The game teaches that chance, not effort, steers a person's fate, so 'destiny' is the idea required.
2. 'Ways' or 'groups' do not fit the fatalistic theme that follows.
Teacher's Note:
1. Look at the theme of the whole passage (fate versus effort).
2. Words of the same field (fortune, fatalism) point to 'destiny'.
(a) bravado
(b) interest
(c) peace
(d) wealth
(e) faith
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Answer: (e) faith
Explanation:
1. 'Lose faith in' something means to stop believing in its value, which suits 'virtues' and the fatalism that followed.
2. 'Interest' is weaker: the game made players believe effort was useless, not merely bored with virtues; 'peace' and 'wealth' do not take 'in'.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Faith in' is the natural pair for beliefs and virtues.
2. When two words seem possible, choose the one that matches the passage's mood (fatalism).
(a) appalling
(b) crushing
(c) moistening
(d) promoting
(e) overwhelming
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Answer: (b) crushing
Explanation:
1. A fatalistic attitude kills the will to work, so it was 'crushing' the spirit of the kingdom; 'crush the spirit' is a common collocation.
2. 'Promoting' has the opposite sense, 'moistening' is absurd, and 'overwhelming' and 'appalling' are not usually used with 'spirit' in this way.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the verb with its object: crush the spirit, dampen the spirit.
2. The context is negative, so reject positive words like 'promoting'.
(a) apprehension
(b) risk
(c) problem
(d) game
(e) destiny
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Answer: (c) problem
Explanation:
1. We 'find an answer to a problem'; the problem here was the fatalism the dice game had spread.
2. 'Apprehension' and 'risk' are not things that have answers, and the new game is the solution, not the problem.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Answer to a problem' or 'solution to a problem' is the natural phrase.
2. Ask what the king needed: a remedy for the problem.
(a) deliberation
(b) absorption
(c) insight
(d) hesitation
(e) reluctance
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Answer: (a) deliberation
Explanation:
1. 'After much deliberation' means after long and careful thought, which led to the invention.
2. 'Hesitation' and 'reluctance' would show doubt, which the passage does not suggest.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'After much deliberation/thought/consideration' is a common opening.
2. Choose the word that leads logically to the result.
(a) nature
(b) equivalent
(c) picture
(d) opposite
(e) replica
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Answer: (d) opposite
Explanation:
1. Chance ruled the dice game, while Chaturanga demanded skill and concentration, so it was its exact opposite.
2. 'Equivalent' and 'replica' mean the same, which contradicts the contrast drawn in the passage.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'The exact opposite of' is a fixed phrase.
2. The passage contrasts luck with strategy.
(a) prediction
(b) concentration
(c) manipulation
(d) attack
(e) fortune
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Answer: (b) concentration
Explanation:
1. The game demanded focus and thought, so 'concentration' fits and contrasts with 'luck'.
2. 'Fortune' means luck, which is what the sentence rejects.
Teacher's Note:
1. Spot the contrast word 'not luck' to find the meaning needed.
2. 'Forceful concentration' is a natural pairing.
(a) devastation
(b) anxiety
(c) impeachment
(d) nuisance
(e) threat
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Answer: (e) threat
Explanation:
1. The fatalism threatened the kingdom, and with the new game that threat ended: 'the threat to the kingdom was over'.
2. 'Devastation' would mean the damage had already occurred, and 'anxiety' is not something 'to' a kingdom.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Threat to' is the usual phrase.
2. The word must complete the idea of a danger that has now ended.
Passage (Questions 11-20)
Directions (Qs. 11-20): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
When sound (11) ______ the world of cinema, mime made a gracious exit. (12) ______ then, it stood proudly as a performing art in itself, independent and (13) ______ in style, approach, treatment and performance not matched however, by (14) ______ acceptance. During the silent era, actors in silent films had to (15) ______ totally on mime as the only way of (16) ______ their emotions, expressions, incidents, events and interactions between and among characters. German Expressionist cinema, the acting of classic performers like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton used mime they had (17) ______ as part of their theatrical (18) ______ in films with great effect. A French mime artist once said, “Mime is the poetry of silence.” But once talking (19) ______ entered the scenario, mime was (20) ______ ever used in films, even though a character introduced as a mime artist.
(a) entered
(b) came
(c) saw
(d) became
(e) featured
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Answer: (a) entered
Explanation:
1. 'Enter' takes a direct object ('entered the world of cinema'), and the idea is sound arriving in cinema.
2. 'Came' would need 'to', and 'saw', 'became' or 'featured' do not suit the meaning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Check whether the verb needs a preposition: 'came to', but 'entered' needs none.
2. Choose the verb that matches the time-change described.
(a) From
(b) So
(c) Since
(d) By
(e) Until
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Answer: (e) Until
Explanation:
1. The verb 'stood' is in the past tense and describes the period before sound arrived, so 'Until then' is right.
2. 'Since then' needs a present perfect verb ('has stood'); 'From then' would mean the opposite period.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Since' goes with perfect tenses; 'until' can go with a simple past.
2. Read the time frame: mime stood proudly before sound came.
(a) single
(b) fair
(c) dependent
(d) unique
(e) treacherous
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Answer: (d) unique
Explanation:
1. 'Independent and unique' joins two positive qualities that describe mime as an art form.
2. 'Dependent' contradicts 'independent', and 'treacherous' or 'fair' do not describe style.
Teacher's Note:
1. Words joined by 'and' should be similar in tone.
2. Eliminate opposites (independent / dependent) first.
(a) drama
(b) conclusion
(c) opinion
(d) judgement
(e) popular
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Answer: (e) popular
Explanation:
1. An adjective is needed before the noun 'acceptance', and 'popular acceptance' means acceptance by the public.
2. The others are nouns and cannot qualify 'acceptance' this way.
Teacher's Note:
1. Look at the word class: an adjective must come before a noun.
2. 'Popular' also fits the contrast with mime's artistic quality.
(a) portray
(b) act
(c) rely
(d) depict
(e) earn
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Answer: (c) rely
Explanation:
1. 'Rely on' is the fixed phrase and fits 'only way' that follows.
2. 'Act' and 'portray' take no 'on', and 'earn on' makes no sense.
Teacher's Note:
1. Rely, depend and insist take 'on'.
2. Check the preposition that follows the blank.
(a) mentioning
(b) designing
(c) stimulating
(d) expressing
(e) considering
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Answer: (d) expressing
Explanation:
1. Silent actors had to convey feelings through gestures, so 'expressing' their emotions is right.
2. 'Stimulating' or 'designing' emotions does not match what actors do.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Express emotions' is a fixed pairing.
2. After a preposition ('of'), use the -ing form.
(a) worked
(b) learnt
(c) qualified
(d) bought
(e) invested
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Answer: (b) learnt
Explanation:
1. Mime is a skill, and one 'learns' a skill as part of theatrical training.
2. 'Qualified' and 'invested' cannot take 'mime' as an object, and 'bought' is illogical.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the verb with its object: learn a skill.
2. The verb must be a past participle after 'had'.
(a) experience
(b) showings
(c) vision
(d) distance
(e) story
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Answer: (a) experience
Explanation:
1. 'Theatrical experience' means their stage background, which they carried into films.
2. 'Showings', 'vision' and 'distance' do not fit 'theatrical' in this meaning.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Experience' fits the idea of earlier training.
2. Check that the noun collocates with the adjective before it.
(a) toys
(b) worlds
(c) films
(d) people
(e) mimes
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Answer: (c) films
Explanation:
1. 'Talking films' (talkies) is the right term for movies with sound.
2. 'Toys' and 'worlds' have no link with cinema, and 'mimes' would not 'talk'.
Teacher's Note:
1. Context: the topic is cinema.
2. 'Talking films' = films with sound.
(a) and
(b) hardly
(c) then
(d) thus
(e) for
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Answer: (b) hardly
Explanation:
1. 'Hardly ever' means almost never, which shows the decline of mime after sound arrived.
2. 'And', 'then', 'thus' or 'for' cannot stand before 'ever' here.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'Hardly ever', 'scarcely ever' and 'rarely ever' are fixed phrases.
2. The meaning (decline) calls for a negative adverb.
Passage (Questions 21-30)
Directions (Qs. 21-30): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He (21) ______ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was (22) ______ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we'll soon (23) ______ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and (24) ______ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on (25) ______ of the mattresses. On this the princess had to lie all night. In the (26) ______ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a (27) ______. I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had (28) ______ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as (29) ______ as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he (30) ______ that he had a real princess.
(a) called
(b) tour
(c) sent
(d) saw
(e) travelled
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Answer: (e) travelled
Explanation:
1. 'Travelled all over the world' is the natural phrase for going from place to place in search of someone.
2. 'Called' and 'sent' need an object, 'saw' does not show the search, and 'tour' is not a past-tense verb here.
Teacher's Note:
1. Check the tense: the passage is in the simple past.
2. Look for the verb that fits 'all over the world'.
(a) made
(b) felt
(c) heard
(d) seen
(e) sounded
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Answer: (c) heard
Explanation:
1. A knocking is a sound, so it is 'heard'; the passive 'was heard' also fits.
2. 'Seen' or 'felt' do not match a sound, and 'made' does not follow the sense.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the verb to the noun's nature (sound = heard).
2. Passive structure: was + past participle.
(a) assure
(b) find
(c) judge
(d) mark
(e) try
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Answer: (b) find
Explanation:
1. 'Find out' is a phrasal verb meaning to discover the truth, which suits the queen's test.
2. 'Try out' is also a phrasal verb but means to test something, not to learn a fact; the others do not combine with 'out'.
Teacher's Note:
1. Know the common phrasal verbs: find out, work out, point out.
2. 'Soon find out' fits the idea of discovering the truth.
(a) drew
(b) flung
(c) placed
(d) cooked
(e) stitch
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Answer: (c) placed
Explanation:
1. The queen put a pea at the bottom of the bed, so 'placed' is the correct verb in the past tense.
2. 'Stitch' is not in the past tense, 'cooked' is irrelevant, and 'flung' or 'drew' do not describe careful positioning.
Teacher's Note:
1. The verb must be in the simple past to match 'took'.
2. Pick the verb whose meaning fits the action.
(a) top
(b) head
(c) bottom
(d) between
(e) middle
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Answer: (a) top
Explanation:
1. 'On top of' is the fixed phrase meaning above.
2. The pea was already at the bottom, so the quilts go on the top.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn: on top of, in front of, at the back of.
2. Check the logic of the bed layout.
(a) morning
(b) dinner
(c) room
(d) fields
(e) dark
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Answer: (a) morning
Explanation:
1. She slept through the night and was asked 'in the morning' how she had slept.
2. 'In the dinner', 'in the room' or 'in the fields' are not time expressions.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use time clues: 'all night' leads to 'morning'.
2. 'In the morning' is a fixed expression.
(a) vengeance
(b) price
(c) cause
(d) result
(e) time
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Answer: (d) result
Explanation:
1. 'As a result' is the linking phrase meaning consequently, and her bruises are the consequence of lying on something hard.
2. 'Vengeance', 'price' and 'cause' do not form idiomatic phrases with 'as a'.
Teacher's Note:
1. 'As a result' / 'as a consequence' are common linkers.
2. Read the sentence for cause and effect.
(a) slept
(b) felt
(c) located
(d) carried
(e) found
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Answer: (b) felt
Explanation:
1. She 'felt' the pea through all the layers; only a sensitive princess would.
2. 'Slept' and 'carried' do not fit with 'through the mattresses'.
Teacher's Note:
1. The meaning is sensation, so choose the sense verb.
2. 'Had felt' is the past perfect, matching 'had slept'.
(a) worried
(b) rough
(c) irritable
(d) sensitive
(e) pretty
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Answer: (d) sensitive
Explanation:
1. Feeling a pea through many mattresses means being extremely sensitive.
2. 'Irritable' means bad-tempered, which is not the quality shown.
Teacher's Note:
1. Judge the quality shown by the story.
2. 'Sensitive' to touch is the trait.
(a) trust
(b) assured
(c) wanted
(d) think
(e) knew
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Answer: (e) knew
Explanation:
1. 'Knew' is correct as the story is in the past and the prince has proof.
2. 'Trust' and 'think' are present tense; 'wanted' and 'assured' do not fit the structure.
Teacher's Note:
1. Keep the same tense as the rest of the passage.
2. 'Knew that' introduces a certain fact.
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