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Cloze Test
(Q1-5) In the following passage, some words Q3 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
have been deleted. Read the passage carefully blank number 3?
and select the most appropriate option to fill in a) offices
each blank. b) details
Digital India can be the prime (1)________ c) processes
behind making a reality of the government’s d) hierarchies
promise of minimum government, maximum Ans. C
governance. Such a transformation requires
technology to be firmly (2)_________ into Q4 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
government, something that the Digital India blank number 4?
project lists as one of its foremost objectives. a) mythical
Embedding technology into government (3) b) proverbial
_________ will do three things; transform the c) hypothetical
government and make it more transparent and d) classified
efficient, transform the lives of citizens especially Ans. B
those at the bottom of the (4)_________ pyramid
and make our economy more efficient and Q5 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
competitive. A 2014 McKinsey Global Institute blank number 5?
report predicts that the large-scale (5) ________ a) enhancement
of technology through Digital India positions India b) anticipation
with the biggest opportunity yet to accelerate c) adaptation
economic growth. d) monitoring
Ans. C
Q1. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank number 1? (Q6-10) In the following passage some words
a) impact have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the
b) might help of the alternatives given. Select the most
c) factors appropriate option for each number.
d) force
Ans. D The modern-day student is extremely 6____
with technology. They do read quite a bit
Q2 Select the most appropriate option to fill in because of social media. While their writing
blank number 2? skills may not be top notch, they do write,
a) inserted courtesy 7___ affinity to various platforms on the
b) embedded internet. However, one skill that has been
c) planted 8______ affected is listening skills. They are
d) stuck extremely poor 9______ listeners. If this issue is
Ans. B not addressed, what we may be heading to in
the future is a huge chunk of people across the
globe, with poor skills of listening, and a huge
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number of passive listeners. Researchers say b) empathisers
that listening is the prime ingredient for empathy c) donors
and the world will be in extreme poverty in terms d) characters
of number of 10_____ on the planet. Ans. B
Q6. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q11-15) Comprehension: In the following
blank number 6? passage, some words have been deleted. Read
a) hindered the passage carefully and select the most
b) disconnected appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) dreary
d) savvy If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a
Ans. D Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is
(11) ______________ the history of manners,
Q7. Select the most appropriate option to fill in turned into a story and a play, as is History itself
blank number 7? often enough. And there is no other (12)
a) their _____________ than this: that the one, the
b) they’re Novel, cloaks its manners (13) ______________
c) dare the disguise of invented characters, while the
d) there other, History, (14) _______________ names
Ans. A and addresses. Only, the Novel (15)
___________ much deeper than History.
blank number 8? Q11. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
a) thoroughly blank number 11?
b) through a) optionally
c) holistically b) needlessly
d) daily c) essentially
Ans. A d) unnecessarily
Ans. C
blank number 9? Q.12 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
a) passive blank number 12?
b) active a) difference
c) distinctive b) pragmatism
d) demonstrative c) matter
Ans. B d) sample
Ans. A
a) sympathisers blank number 13?
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a) under (c) drop
b) beside (d) mouthful
c) around Ans. A
d) among
Ans. A Q.17 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank no. 17?
Q.14 Select the most appropriate option to fill in (a) campaigners
blank number 14? (b) reformers
a) provides (c) champions
b) negates (d) supporters
c) removes Ans. D
d) strangulates
Ans. A Q. 18 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank no. 18?
Q.15 Select the most appropriate option to fill in (a) adapt
blank number 15? (b) reshape
a) bargains (c) transfigure
b) listens (d) convert
c) probes Ans. D
d) imbibes
Ans. C Q.19 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank no. 19?
(Q16-20) Comprehension: In the following (a) stadium
passage, some words have been deleted. Read (b) circuit
the passage carefully and select the most (c) route
appropriate option to fill in each blank. (d) track
Ans. A
The Romans had developed a (16)____ for
chariot racing. The (17)_____ of the game are Q.20 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
so excited that sometimes it may (18)____ into blank no. 20?
chaos, confusion and riots. The (19)_____ in (a) larger
which racing took place was called a circus. The (b) highest
(20)____ one was the Circus Maximus in Rome, (c) largest
that could hold up to 3,85,000 spectators, which (d) higher
shows the popularity of the sport. Ans. C
Q.16 Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q21-25) Comprehension: In the following
blank no. 16? passage, some words have been deleted. Read
(a) taste the passage carefully and select the most
(b) spoonful appropriate option to fill in each blank.
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d) Oblige
All drivers are affected by road rage, whether they Ans. B
are directly or indirectly (21)___________.
Individual coping qualities (22)____________ the 25 Select the most appropriate option to fill in
behaviour of stressful drivers. Instead of being blank number 25?
enraged over circumstances beyond their control, a) drag
drivers (23)__________ learn to be patient. On b) reflect
the road, we must be (24) __________ to control c) incur
our own emotions. Road raged drivers are also d) Proceed
more likely to (25) __________ more traffic Ans. C
offences.
Q.21 Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q. 26-30) Comprehension: In the following
a) involves the passage carefully and select the most
b) involving appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) involved
d) involve Tattooing is a talent that requires a lot of time
Ans. C and (26)________. There are many various
kinds and (27)__________ of tattooing.
Q.22 Select the most appropriate option to fill in Tattooing was and still is a means to
blank number 22? communicate someone's thoughts or life by
a) influence permanently (28)_________ a design of ink and
b) apply colour into their flesh. The first step in tattooing
c) increases is to develop an artistic (29)_________ and the
d) multiply skill to sketch and create your artwork. Tattooing
Ans. A penmanship is far more (30)__________ than
sketching on paper.
Q.23 Select the most appropriate option to fill in Q.26 Select the most appropriate answer to fill in
blank number 23? blank 26?
a) must a) integrity
b) can b) capacity
c) ought c) liability
d) to d) ability
Ans. A Ans. D
Q.24 Select the most appropriate option to fill in Q.27 Select the most appropriate answer to fill in
blank number 24? blank 27?
a) brave a) views
b) consistent b) genres
c) able c) keys
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d) gestures (35)______ or total depending upon the
Ans. B condition.
Q.28 Select the most appropriate answer to fill in blank number 31?
blank 28? a) consider
a) detaching b) denied
b) embedding c) regard
c) combining d) considered
d) fertilising Ans. D
Ans. B
Q.29 Select the most appropriate answer to fill blank number 32?
in blank 29? a) trial
a) glimpse b) type
b) drama c) method
c) attitude d) process
d) career Ans. D
Ans. C
Q.30 Select the most appropriate answer to fill in blank number 33?
blank 30? a) prospering
a) aggravated b) acknowledging
b) confiscated c) rectifying
c) complicated d) performing
d) authenticated Ans. D
Ans. C
(Q31-35) Comprehension: In the following blank number 34?
passage, some words have been deleted. Read a) commendable
the passage carefully and select the most b) responsible
appropriate option to fill in each blank. c) affluent
d) significance
Memory loss, with ageing, is (31)_______ a Ans. B
natural and normal (32)_______. The symptoms
range from forgetting simple daily life activities Q35. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
and (33)_______ familiar tasks such as driving blank number 35?
or baking. However, there can be several other a) partial
factors (34)_______ for it and these vary from b) partially
person to person. Memory loss can be c) completely
d) incomplete
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Ans. A Ans. A
(Q36-40) Comprehension: In the following Q39. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
passage, some words have been deleted. Read blank number 39?
the passage carefully and select the most a) a wild goose chase
appropriate option to fill in each blank. b) a snake in the grass
c) a bone of contention
Little (36)_______ a year ago, Rama Rao went d) a bolt from the blue
out of work when a gramophone company, of Ans. D
which he was the Malgudi agent, went out of
existence. He had put into that agency the little Q40. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
money he had (37)______ as security. For five blank number 40?
years his business brought him (38)______ a) instructions
money, just enough to help him keep his wife b) circumstances
and children in good comfort. And one day, it c) questions
was (39)_______. A series of (40)_______ in d) lectures
the world of trade, commerce, banking, and Ans. B
politics was responsible for it.
Q36. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q.41-45) Comprehension: In the following
a) while the passage carefully and select the most
b) beyond appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) about
d) over Academic life has (41) _________ demanding
Ans. D for students as a result of different internal and
external expectations. Teenagers are especially
Q37. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (42)__________ to academic stress because
blank number 37? they go through so many personal and social
a) converted changes. As a result, designing effective and
b) exchanged efficient (43) _________ solutions requires a
c) inherited thorough understanding of the causes and
d) gambled consequences of academic stress. Exams are
Ans. C one of the (44)_________ aspects of anyone's
life. Exams are stressful for everyone, whether
Q38. Select the most appropriate option to fill in they are students or adults because everyone
blank number 38? wants to perform well and no one wants to fail
a) enough as to avoid (45) ________ in future.
b) much Q41. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
c) a few blank number 41?
d) few a) becomes
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b) became given. Select the most appropriate option for
c) become each number.
d) becoming
Ans. C Everything we know about non-avian dinosaurs
is ________ (46) fossils, which include bones,
Q42. Select the most appropriate option to fill in teeth, footprints, tracks, eggs, and skin
blank number 42? impressions. For centuries, people throughout
a) scared the world have ________ (47) amazing
b) prone fossilised bones and footprints. Early finds
c) liable inspired _______ (48) and fairy tales, and
d) resistance people ________ (49) that these bones
Ans. B belonged to ________ (50) or huge monsters.
Q43. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 46?
blank number 43? a) taken after
a) collateral b) held on
b) intervention c) given in
c) convention d) based on
d) physical Ans. D
Ans. B
blank number 44? a) designed
a) more important b) invented
b) most eager c) fabricated
c) most crucial d) discovered
d) more urgent Ans. D
Ans. C
blank number 45? a) fame
a) ambiguity b) celebrities
b) sneak c) legends
c) wanderlust d) honour
d) purpose Ans. C
Ans. A
(Q46-50) Comprehension: In the following blank number 49?
passage some words have been deleted. Fill in a) aimed
the blanks with the help of the alternatives b) opposed
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c) arranged Q52. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
d) imagined blank number 52?
Ans. D a) changes
b) makes
Q50. Select the most appropriate option to fill in c) focuses
blank number 50? d) regards
a) spirits Ans. C
b) devils
c) ghosts Q53. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
d) giants blank number 53?
Ans. D a) general
b) professional
(Q51-55) Comprehension: c) fresh
In the following passage, some words have d) new
been deleted. Read the passage carefully and Ans. B
select the most appropriate option to fill in each
blank. Q54. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank number 54?
Education (51)_____ both the teaching and a) fundamental
learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and b) personal
technical competency. It thus (52)____ on the c) beautiful
cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well d) long standing
as mental, moral and aesthetic development. Ans. A
Formal education consists of systematic
instruction, teaching and training by (53)____ Q55. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
teachers. This consists of the application of blank number 55?
pedagogy and the development of curricula. The a) dreams
right to education is a (54)_____ human right. b) challenges
Educational systems are established to provide c) training
education and (55)_______, often for children d) upbringing
and the young. Ans. C
blank number 51? (Q56-60) Comprehension: In the following
a) likes passage, some words have been deleted. Read
b) releases the passage carefully and select the most
c) makes appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) encompasses
Ans. D We believe our value is in direct proportion to
the value of our accomplishments. If we cannot
accomplish certain results, we tend to feel
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(56)_____ about ourselves. Some of us try too Q59. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
hard and become workaholics and over- blank number 59?
achievers. With a few genuine feelings of self- a) disappointed
worth, we try to create some and prove that we b) flattered
are somebody by our successes and (57)_____. c) protected
Because our desire for perfection is so great, we d) glad
(58)_____ to set unrealistic goals and place Ans. A
unreasonable demands on ourselves. Failing,
rather than encouraging us to have realistic Q60. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
aspirations, only leads to a mere punishing blank number 60?
round of self-blame and a resolve to drive a) satisfied
ourselves harder next time. If we do not finally b) empty
achieve our goals, we are (59)____; despite c) lively
everything we have done, we still feel (60)_____ d) honoured
inside. Ans. B
blank number 56? (Q61-65) Comprehension: In the following
a) high passage, some words have been deleted. Read
b) good the passage carefully and select the most
c) low appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) better Four of the most popular forms i.e. Facebook,
Ans. C Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram of social media
(61)________ great damage upon young
Q57. Select the most appropriate option to fill in people’s mental health. These four platforms
blank number 57? have a negative effect because they can (62)
a) anxiety ________ children’s and young people’s body
b) obstacles image worries, and worsen bullying, sleep
c) actions problems, anxiety, depression and loneliness.
d) achievements The findings follow growing (63) _________
Ans. D among politicians, health bodies, doctors and
parents about young people suffering harm as a
Q58. Select the most appropriate option to fill in result of cyber bullying and social media
blank number 58? (64)_________ feelings of self-loathing and
a) come leading them to commit suicide. However, the
b) tend leader of the UK’s psychiatrists said these
c) wish findings were too simplistic and they
d) crave (65)________ blamed social media for the
Ans. B complex reasons why the mental health of so
many young people is suffering.

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Q61. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q. 66-70) Comprehension: In the following
a) inflict the passage carefully and select the most
b) impious appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) perpetrating
d) discrete Women won their present status through
Ans. A (66)____ and sacrifices rather than through
men's kindness. Women and their supporters
Q62. Select the most appropriate option to fill in have fought, and in some places continue to
blank number 62? fight for the same rights as (67)____. Laws were
a) mitigate made to replace local customs which denigrated
b) effectuate and suppressed women's rights. Women have
c) exacerbate (68)_____ higher positions in the world at all
d) alleviate levels; political, economic and social. But in
Ans. C reality, women still suffer from (69)____ at
various levels. For example, women work more
Q63. Select the most appropriate option to fill in and earn less than men. In addition to that, the
blank number 63? majority of the world's poor and illiterate are
a) concern women. The road to real (70)_____ is still long.
b) consternate Q66. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
c) bridle blank number 66?
d) poise a) struggle
Ans. A b) happiness
c) dignity
Q64. Select the most appropriate option to fill in d) joy
blank number 64? Ans. A
a) reinforcing Q67. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
b) accentuate blank number 67?
c) augment a) everyone
d) ebbing b) men
Ans. A c) universal
d) politicians
Q65. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Ans. B
blank number 65?
a) legitimately Q68. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
b) impartially blank number 68?
c) unfairly a) snatched
d) outlandish b) gripped
Ans. C c) plucked
d) gained

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Ans. D c) termination
d) renovation
Q69. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Ans. D
a) issues blank number 72?
b) tolerance a) expose
c) equality b) rectify
d) discrimination c) adore
Ans. D d) adorn
Ans. D
a) probability blank number 73?
b) maturity a) courtyard
c) equality b) churchyard
d) eligibility c) shipyard
Ans. C d) junkyard
Ans. A
(Q.71-75) Comprehension: In the following
passage, some words have been deleted. Read Q74. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
the passage carefully and select the most blank number 74?
appropriate option to fill in each blank. a) attained
b) displayed
The monastery in Tawang has recently c) transferred
undergone (71)_________ and bright paintings d) received
(72)_________ it walls. Dances and ceremonial Ans. A
celebrations are held in the (73)________ , the
most important of which is held on the night of Q75. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
Buddha Purnima, the full moon on which the blank number 75?
Buddha was born, (74)_________ a) about
enlightenment and died. To reach Tawang, you b) beside
drive for 12 hours from Assam’s Tezpur town, a c) between
major Indian Forces base. The best seasons the d) among
visitor can choose for coming to Tawang is Ans. C
(75)_________ September to November.
(Q.76-80) Comprehension: In the following
Q71. Select the most appropriate option to fill in passage, some words have been deleted. Read
blank number 71? the passage carefully and select the most
a) innovation appropriate option to fill in each blank.
b) depreciation
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A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, b) pattern
usually an electromechanical machine that is c) enjoyment
(76)______ by a computer programme or d) environments
electronic circuitry. In general, robots can be Ans. D
autonomous or semi-autonomous and are now
used in different fields. They have replaced Q79. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
(77)_______ in performing repetitive and blank number 79?
dangerous tasks which humans prefer not to do, a) network
or are unable to do because of size limitations, b) housework
or which take place in extreme (78)________ c) software
such as outer space or the bottom of the sea. d) handwork
For instance, robots can now be used in Ans. B
industry, as in car manufacturing, or they can be
used in homes to do the (79)_______. Some Q80. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
robots may respond to speech or even be blank number 80?
medical operating tools. There are concerns a) unemployment
about the increasing use of robots and their role b) peace
in society. Robots are blamed for the rising c) social issues
(80)________ as they replace workers in d) corruption
increasing numbers of functions. Ans. A
Q76. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q.81-85) Comprehension: In the following
a) included the passage carefully and select the most
b) chased appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) guided
d) challenged I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do.
Ans. C I will not (81) _____________ that in which I no
longer believe, (82) ____________ it calls itself
Q77. Select the most appropriate option to fill in my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will
blank number 77? try to (83) _______________ myself in some
a) machines mode of life or art as (84) _____________ as I
b) humans can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence
c) agents the only arms I (85) ____________ myself to
d) toys use: silence, exile and cunning.
Ans. B
blank number 78? a) serve
a) beauty b) drain
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c) lag
d) debit India is one of the largest producers of tea in the
Ans. A world. The industry is (86)________ recognised
as technically very well (87) ________. The
Q82. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Indian tea industry is a (88) ________ one
blank number 82? traditionally. Tea has been used in India for (89)
a) sometimes ________ purposes as well as for (90)
b) nevertheless ________.
c) whether
d) presumably Q86. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
Ans. C blank number 86?
a) globally
Q83. Select the most appropriate option to fill in b) tediously
blank number 83? c) industrially
a) express d) mutually
b) disappear Ans. A
c) collect
d) sterilise Q87. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
Ans. A blank number 87?
a) complex
Q84. Select the most appropriate option to fill in b) establish
blank number 84? c) pampered
a) morbidly d) equipped
b) bleakly Ans. D
c) pithily
d) freely Q88. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
Ans. D blank number 88?
a) flourish
Q85. Select the most appropriate option to fill in b) condensing
blank number 85? c) flourishing
a) behave d) thrashing
b) allow Ans. C
c) caution
d) effeminate
Ans. B Q89. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank number 89?
(Q. 86-90) Comprehension: In the following a) sick
passage, some words have been deleted. Read b) immune
the passage carefully and select the most c) medicinal
appropriate option to fill in each blank. d) immunology
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Ans. C Ans. D
Q90. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Q93. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank number 90? blank number 93?
a) fulfilment a) directed
b) advantage b) managed
c) consumption c) supervised
d) retention d) conducted
Ans. C Ans. D
(Q91-95) Comprehension: In the following Q94. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
passage, some words have been deleted. Read blank number 94?
the passage carefully and select the most a) closed
appropriate option to fill in each blank. b) concluded
c) finished
A new world research shows that the French d) stopped
(91) ______ large amounts of cheese and Ans. B
butter. Therefore, they have low levels of heart
disease. The research (02) ______ that animal Q95. Select the most appropriate option to fill in
fat is good for the human body and helps in blank number 95?
reducing the risks of heart attack. This study a) crucial
was (93) ______ in 2018 in 21 low and middle b) diligent
income countries. However, it (94) ______ that c) principle
eating moderately is the (95) ______ key in this d) eminent
regard. Ans. A
Q91. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (Q96-100) Comprehension: In the following
a) consume the passage carefully and select the most
b) drink appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) gobble
d) take Human migration may be traced all the way
Ans. A back to the (96)________ of time, and humans
have been on the move ever since. Climate
Q92. Select the most appropriate option to fill in change, war and displacement, economic
blank number 92? considerations, living conditions, family and clan
a) accepts (97)________, and, more recently, educational
b) credits possibilities are all reasons for migration.
c) trusts Because there are several reasons for
d) believes migration, migration patterns are
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(98)_________. Potential migrants will not only Q100. Select the most appropriate option to fill
(99)_________ whether or not to migrate, but in blank number 100?
also where they will go. Individuals with (100) a) considering
________ observed and unobserved features b) varying
will make diverse decisions and self-select into c) convincing
specific areas. d) experiencing
Ans. B
blank number 96? (Q.101-105) Comprehension: In the following
a) glimpse passage, some words have been deleted. Read
b) ahead the passage carefully and select the most
c) dawn appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) break
Ans. C One’s options in this world are as (101)
___________________ as the horizon, which is
Q97. Select the most appropriate option to fill in technically a circle and thus (102)
blank number 97? _______________ broad. Yet we must choose
a) joins each step we take with (103) _______________
b) ties caution, for the footprints we leave (104)
c) chains ___________ are as important as the (105)
d) fights _____________ we will follow. They’re part of
Ans. B the same journey: our story.
Q98. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Q101. Select the most appropriate option to fill
blank number 99? in blank number 101?
a) assorted a) narrow
b) uniform b) slight
c) diverse c) contracted
d) constant d) vast
Ans. C Ans. D
Q99. Select the most appropriate option to fill in Q102. Select the most appropriate option to fill
blank number 99? in blank number 102?
a) settle a) rigorously
b) determine b) severely
c) certify c) strictly
d) induce d) infinitely
Ans. B Ans. D

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Q103. Select the most appropriate option to fill Q106. Select the most appropriate option to fill
in blank number 103? in blank number 106?
a) utmost a) owned
b) slack b) inherited
c) unmindful c) devised
d) inattentive d) genetic
Ans. A Ans. B
a) discarded a) raise
b) surplus b) upraise
c) behind c) bring
d) excessive d) lift
Ans. C Ans. A
a) approach a) ventured
b) path b) started
c) manner c) continued
d) custom d) appeared
Ans. B Ans. B
(Q106-110) Comprehension: In the following Q109. Select the most appropriate option to fill
passage, some words have been deleted. Read in blank number 109?
the passage carefully and select the most a) resourceful
appropriate option to fill in each blank. b) opulent
c) healthy
The British king, Charles I, had (106)_____ a d) wealthy
very difficult financial situation from his father. Ans. D
His period saw a very high rate of inflation. He
wanted to (107)____ money. Therefore, he Q110. Select the most appropriate option to fill
(108) _____ creating the title of Baronet and in blank number 110?
selling it to (109) _____ candidates. However, a) banished
his decision was (110)_____ by the British b) rejected
parliament. c) unaccepted
d) abandoned
Ans. B

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(Q111-115) Comprehension: In the following a) unless
passage, some words have been deleted. Read b) until
the passage carefully and select the most c) ever after
appropriate option to fill in each blank. d) even so
Ans. B
The thing nodded vigorously; as it nodded, the
left button-eye fell off and (111) ______ (112) Q115. Select the most appropriate option to fill
______ the concrete floor. The thing looked in blank number 115?
around (113) ______ with its one eye, as if it a) hung
had lost her. The thing twisted bonelessly (114) b) rung
______ its one eye was again facing her. And it c) lunged
(115) ______ across the cellar towards her d) flung
then. Ans. C
Q111. Select the most appropriate option to fill (Q116-120) Comprehension: In the following
in blank number 111? passage, some words have been deleted. Read
a) clattered the passage carefully and select the most
b) hissed appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) fizzed Our beautiful ecosystem is being systematically
d) buzzed (116)____ by industrial pollution channelled into
Ans. A rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna, nuclear
wastes from atomic plants muted into the world’s
Q112. Select the most appropriate option to fill oceans, and (117)____ gases such as carbon
in blank number 112? dioxide mixed with the ozonosphere. Besides,
a) up tropical rainforests and green pastures are
b) to disappearing (118)_____ the pressure of a
c) at proliferating population. Dams are being
d) onto (119)_____ over the rivers like the Narmada to
Ans. D change nature’s well-balanced surface
equations between flora and fauna, and sloping
Q113. Select the most appropriate option to fill mountainous terrain is being converted into mini
in blank number 113? oceans to supply electricity to the ever-starving
a) wittily industrial stomach of our age. Elephants, tigers,
b) ferociously the wild rhinos of South Africa and many other
c) vacantly forest creatures have become (120)_____
d) involuntarily species.
Ans. C
Q116. Select the most appropriate option to fill
in blank number 114? a) damaged
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b) oriented the passage carefully and select the most
c) glorified appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) designed
Ans. A During the pandemic, remote working has kept
the work going on across _____ (121) Almost
Q117. Select the most appropriate option to fill every industry got shut down physically during
in blank number 117? the lockdowns but the work from home model
a) poisonous tried to ______ (122) the effect of the lockdown
b) useful when it came to jobs. In the future also, many
c) nuclear businesses across the globe, including the
d) hygienic information technology industry, are _______
Ans. A (123) continuing with the hybrid model. Remote
working has replaced geography as a major
Q118. Select the most appropriate option to fill hiring ________ (124), with 90 per cent of senior
in blank number 118? executives expected to work from home. As a
a) in result, 76 per cent of US organisations are more
b) to likely to _______ (125) out side the city or even
c) on state, according to a Talent Works poll of
d) under recruiting managers conducted across the US,
Ans. D quoted by an FE report.
a) validated a) Sectors
b) built b) Fields
c) detected c) Sections
d) associated d) Areas
Ans. B Ans. A
a) accumulated a) Substitute
b) specified b) Reduce
c) endangered c) Replenish
d) granted d) Substantiate
Ans. C Ans. B
(Q121-125) Comprehension: In the given Q123. Select the most appropriate option to fill
passage, some words have been left out. Read in blank number 123?
a) Analysing
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b) Examining country the beautiful melting pot we are
c) Considering (130)_____ to call it.
d) Observing
Ans. C Q126. Select the most appropriate option to fill
in blank number 126?
Q124. Select the most appropriate option to fill a) calm
in blank number 124? b) busy
a) Formula c) huge
b) Standard d) clumsy
c) Criteria Ans. C
d) Criterion
Ans. D Q127. Select the most appropriate option to fill
Q125. Select the most appropriate option to fill a) country
in blank number 125? b) climate
a) Implement c) course
b) Deploy d) career
c) Execute Ans. A
d) Employ
Ans. D Q128. Select the most appropriate option to fill
(Q126-130) Comprehension: In the following a) drawn
passage, some words have been deleted. Read b) originated
the passage carefully and select the most c) imagined
appropriate option to fill in each blank. d) managed
Ans. B
Culture can be a beautiful thing. There are many
aspects that make up one’s culture. Whether it Q129. Select the most appropriate option to fill
may be the clothing, language, religion, food, in blank number 129?
traditions or even music, all aspects play a a) careful
(126)____ role in making up a person’s culture. I b) evil
think culture is so important because it does not c) original
affect only one person; it affects the (127)____ d) helpless
and also affects the other people around it. I am Ans. C
happy to know my culture and to know where
my family (128)____ from. It gives me the sense Q130. Select the most appropriate option to fill
of being whole, and at the same time makes me in blank number 130?
feel (129)____ and different from other people. a) thoughtful
Different cultures and different people make our b) grumpy
c) innocent
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d) proud Q133. Select the most appropriate option to fill
Ans. D in the blank 133?
a) trouble
(Q131-135) Comprehension: In the following b) affect
passage, some words have been deleted. Read c) involved
the passage carefully and select the most d) concerned
appropriate option to fill in each blank. Ans. D
The saving of certain wild animals from Q134. Select the most appropriate option to fill
extinction (131)_____ many years been a in the blank 134?
problem for the zoologists and other specialists; a) probable
but more recently the problem has become so b) advance
(132)_____, and has received so much publicity, c) varied
that most people are now (133)_______ about d) consequent
it. This may at first seem strange because one of Ans. D
the most gratifying developments of the last few
years has been the passing of strict laws to Q135. Select the most appropriate option to fill
protect wild animals and the (134)_________ in the blank 135?
decline in the hunting of big-game for sport. Why a) danger
is it then that some rare wild animals are still b) frighten
(135)________ with extinction and even some c) bullied
of the less rare ones are rapidly declining in d) threatened
number? Ans. D
in the blank 131? passage, some words have been deleted. Read
a) has for the passage carefully and select the most
b) had for appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) is for
d) was of Deforestation, wildfires and pollution cause
Ans. A animals (136) _________lose their homes.
Animals may be (137) _________ by their
Q132. Select the most appropriate option to fill surroundings. Most individuals are (138)
in the blank 132? __________ that they are taking down an
a) acute animal's home when they cut down trees for
b) rare wood. Animal (139) ___________ is also lost as
c) narrow a result of wildfires. The main causes of an
d) steep animal becoming (140)_________ are poaching
Ans. A and smuggling. Pollution is extremely harmful to
animals and their environments. Animals are
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interested and try to eat the pollution-causing a) wild
things. Furthermore, some rivers and natural b) endangered
resources are becoming polluted, forcing c) infused
animals to relocate. d) destructive
Ans. B
in blank number 136? (Q141-145) Comprehension: In the following
a) to passage, some words have been deleted. Read
b) from the passage carefully and select the most
c) through appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) of
Ans. A Child marriage is a kind of right exploitation as to
(141)__________ in practically all areas, the kid
must be at least 18 years old. As a result,
Q137. Select the most appropriate option to fill marrying off a kid before they reach the age of
in blank number 137? (142)________ is an exploitation of their right.
a) effected The long-standing (143)_________ of child
b) obsoleted marriage is one of the most prevalent reasons of
c) intensified child marriage. The elders want to plan for the
d) affected (144)________ of their family, so they marry off
Ans. D the children to establish their position. Most
crucially, poor individuals marry children to get
Q138. Select the most appropriate option to fill rid of their debts, taxes, dowry, and other
in blank number 138? (145)__________.
a) apprehensive
b) unaware Q141. Select the most appropriate answer to fill
c) bad in blank 141?
d) conscious a) bind
Ans. B b) mature
c) marry
Q139. Select the most appropriate option to fill d) vote
in blank number 139? Ans. C
a) environment
b) habitat Q142. Select the most appropriate answer to fill
c) husbandry in blank 142?
d) domain a) restrain
Ans. B b) adult
c) consent
Q140. Select the most appropriate option to fill d) growth
in blank number 140? Ans. C
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Geography. And only two hours before him to do
Q143. Select the most appropriate answer to fill all this heap of work and get (150) ______ for
in blank 143? school.
a) custom
b) taboo Q146.Select the most appropriate option to fill in
c) faith blank number 146?
d) hassle a) heap
Ans. A b) deal
c) order
Q144. Select the most appropriate answer to fill d) load
in blank 144? Ans. A
a) evolution
b) extension Q147.Select the most appropriate option to fill in
c) coalition blank number 147?
d) creation a) guess
Ans. B b) recollect
c) imagine
Q145. Select the most appropriate answer to fill d) estimate
in blank 145? Ans. B
a) evils
b) activities Q148.Select the most appropriate option to fill in
c) obligations blank number 148?
d) mitigations a) disputes
Ans. C b) puzzles
c) debates
(Q146-150) Comprehension: In the following d) conditions
passage, some words have been deleted. Read Ans. B
the passage carefully and select the most
appropriate option to fill in each blank. Q149.Select the most appropriate option to fill in
blank number 149?
Swaminathan had a table on which all his a) rigid
things, his coat, cap, slate, ink-bottle, and books, b) awkward
were thrown in a confused (146)______ He sat c) difficult
on his stool and shut his eyes to (147) d) visible
________ what work he had for the day: first of Ans. C
course there was Arithmetic – those five
(148)_______ in Profit and Loss; then there was Q150.Select the most appropriate option to fill in
English – he had to copy down a page from his blank number 150?
English lesson and write dictionary meanings of a) alert
(149) _______ words; and then there was b) fit
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c) ready
d) fixed Q153. Select the most appropriate option to fill
Ans. C in blank number 153?
a) though
(Q151-155) Comprehension: In the following b) in spite of
passage some words have been deleted. Fill in c) as
the blanks with the help of the alternatives d) despite
given. Select the most appropriate option for Ans. A
each number.
Allegiance to one’s favourite team is something in blank number 154?
that sports fans 151 ______ over a period of a) fame
time. They are so attached to their favourite b) came
teams that they could display 152 ______ c) come
emotions, not just during the course of the d) game
match, but much after the actual event is over. Ans. C
This phenomenon, 153 ______ common across
the globe, is more seen in countries like Brazil, Q155. Select the most appropriate option to fill
India, the US and even the UK, where the in blank number 155?
favourite sport may not be the same in each of a) entertaining
these nations. In spite of this craze and hysteria, b) tiresome
sport has 154 ______ a long way. It is accepted c) inhibited
as one of the world’s most 155 ______ pastimes d) detrimental
ever. Ans. A
a) crave the passage carefully and select the most
b) infer appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) develop
d) defer Mob lynching is the act of a group of people
Ans. C murdering a person without due process of law
for an (156)_________ infraction. In recent
Q152. Select the most appropriate option to fill years, mob lynching has become one of the
in blank number 152? hate (157)_________ that targets persons of a
a) hurried certain identity, members of a minority
b) varied population, or strangers on the basis of a mere
c) dread (158)___________. Without obeying any
d) concrete principles of law, the mob takes the law into their
Ans. B own hands to punish the supposed
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(159)__________ in the name of justice. Mob a) prevalent
lynching is a breach of human dignity and a b) convenient
(160)_________ violation of the Universal c) covert
Declaration of Human Rights, according to d) flagrant
Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. Ans. D
Q156. Select the most appropriate answer to fill (Q161-165) Comprehension: In the following
in blank 156? passage, some words have been deleted. Read
a) alleged the passage carefully and select the most
b) advantaged appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) applied
d) encouraged As writers we live life twice, like (161)
Ans. A _________ cow that eats its food once and then
regurgitates it to chew and digest (162)
Q157. Select the most appropriate answer to fill __________ again. We have a second chance
in blank 157? (163) _________ biting into our experience and
a) crimes examining it. This is our life and it's not going to
b) gossips last forever. There isn't time to talk about
c) goals someday writing that short story or poem or
d) desires novel. Slow down now, touch what is (164)
Ans. A __________ you, and out of care and
compassion for (165) __________ moment and
Q158. Select the most appropriate answer to fill detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
in blank 158?
a) suspicion Q161. Select the most appropriate option to fill
b) trust in blank number 161?
c) evidence a) any
d) logic b) a
Ans. A c) some
d) as
Q159. Select the most appropriate answer to fill Ans. B
in blank 159?
a) innocent Q162. Select the most appropriate option to fill
b) lawman in blank number 162?
c) faultless a) away
d) accused b) more
Ans. D c) it
d) a few
Q160. Select the most appropriate answer to fill Ans. C
in blank 160?
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Q163. Select the most appropriate option to fill reducing stress levels and providing a strong
in blank number 163? competing stimulus to the pain (170) ________
a) at that enter the brain, music therapy can assist in
b) not pain management.
c) beside
d) about Q166. Select the most appropriate option to fill
Ans. A in blank 166?
a) interprets
Q164. Select the most appropriate option to fill b) suggests
in blank number 164? c) dreams
a) around d) focuses
b) neither Ans. B
c) besides
d) above Q167. Select the most appropriate option to fill
a) provide
Q165. Select the most appropriate option to fill b) furnish
in blank number 165? c) exhaust
a) each d) boost
b) both Ans. D
c) few
d) little Q168. Select the most appropriate option to fill
a) intensify
(Q166-170) Comprehension: In the following b) amend
passage, some words have been deleted. Read c) enhance
the passage carefully and select the most d) relieve
appropriate option to fill in each blank. Ans. D
Music can improve mood, decrease pain and Q169. Select the most appropriate option to fill
anxiety, and facilitate opportunities for emotional in blank 169?
expression. Research (166)______ that music a) involved
can benefit our physical and mental health in b) concerned
numerous ways. Music can (167)______ the c) obsessed
brain’s production of the hormone dopamine. d) accompanied
This increased dopamine production helps Ans. A
(168)________ feelings of anxiety and
depression. Music is processed directly by the Q170. Select the most appropriate option to fill
amygdala, which is the part of the brain in blank 170?
(169)________ in mood and emotions. By a) deter
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b) signals d) production
c) deform Ans. C
d) substance
Ans. B Q175. Select the most appropriate option to fill
(Q171-175) Comprehension: In the following a) smart
passage, some words have been deleted. Read b) skinny
the passage carefully and select the most c) obese
appropriate option to fill in each blank. d) affluent
Ans. C
a) prevail the passage carefully and select the most
b) sustain appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) entail
d) assail Being constant (176) _________ repeating a
Ans. A task or action, or performing an activity without a
stop or interval. Consistency can never be
Q172. Select the most appropriate option to fill attained in a sporadic or (177) _______ manner.
in blank number 172? When you perform anything regularly or
a) contamination constantly, you will not only build expertise in
b) perfection that area, but you will also gain a better (178)
c) purification ________ of it. Because of the greater amount
d) concentration of effort put in over a longer period of time, this
Ans. A enhanced comprehension is (179) ________.
As a result, consistency is the (180) _________
Q173. Select the most appropriate option to fill that allows anyone to consistently put in the
in blank number 173? effort.
a) sterile
b) unhygienic Q176. Select the most appropriate option to fill
c) neat in blank number 176?
d) energetic a) envelops
Ans. B b) initiates
c) figure
Q174. Select the most appropriate option to fill d) entails
in blank number 174? Ans. D
a) condition
b) proportion Q177. Select the most appropriate option to fill
c) nutrition in blank number 177?
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a) casual gave birth to a character called Bhadur in 1976
b) intermittent wearing kurta and jeans. Raj comics too (184)
c) discipline ________ into this sphere with their (185)
d) focus ________ toons Nagraj, Tiranga and Shakti
Ans. B together called Brahman Rakshak (protectors of
the universe).
in blank number 178? Q181. Select the most appropriate option to fill
a) decision in blank number 181?
b) comprehension a) built
c) estrangement b) produced
d) ignorance c) fabricated
Ans. B d) manufactured
Ans. B
a) destructible in blank number 182?
b) feasible a) generated
c) credible b) inspired
d) fluctuating c) promoted
Ans. B d) created
Ans. D
a) resistance in blank number 183?
b) apparatus a) employed
c) instrument b) ordered
d) utensil c) contracted
Ans. C d) authorised
Ans. A
(Q181-185) Comprehension: In the following
passage, some words have been deleted. Read Q184. Select the most appropriate option to fill
the passage carefully and select the most in blank number 184?
appropriate option to fill in each blank. a) invaded
b) penetrated
Comics have (181) ________ many c) entered
superheroes. Bantul, the great was (182) d) pierced
________ in the year 1965 in the backdrop of Ans. C
the Indo-Pak war. Indrajal comics was set up in
1964 and (183) __________ Aabid Surti, who
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in blank number 185? in blank no. 188?
a) noted a) glided
b) influential b) carried
c) famous c) swept
d) good d) pulled
Ans. C Ans. C
(Q186-190) Comprehension: In the following Q189. Select the most appropriate option to fill
passage, some words have been deleted. Read in blank no. 189?
the passage carefully and select the most a) rebuilt
appropriate option to fill in each blank. b) innovated
c) modelled
A great fire (186)______ in London in 1666 d) restored
which (187)____ the city and made around Ans. A
1,00,000 people homeless. This fire is said to
have begun in a pudding lane. It (188)____ Q190. Select the most appropriate option to fill
through the crowded streets and wooden in blank no. 190?
houses. However, after the fire, London was a) organised
(189)___ with wider streets and improved water b) erected
supplies. New buildings were (190)___ using c) fabricated
bricks instead of wood. d) located
Ans. B
in blank no. 186? (Q191-195) Comprehension: In the following
a) broke for passage, some words have been deleted. Read
b) broke in the passage carefully and select the most
c) broke out appropriate option to fill in each blank.
d) broke at
Ans. C A hummingbird’s brilliant throat colour is not
caused by feather (191) ________, but rather by
Q187. Select the most appropriate option to fill iridescence in the arrangement of the feathers.
in blank no. 187? Light level, moisture, angle of viewing, wear and
a) destroyed tear and other factors all (192) ______ just how
b) smashed bright and colourful the throat may appear.
c) shattered Hummingbirds cannot walk or hop, though their
d) demolished feet can be used to (193) _____ sideways while
Ans. A they are perched. These birds have evolved
smaller feet to be lighter for more (194) ______

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flying. They will use their feet for itching and d) scintillating
(195) _______, however. Ans. A
a) perspiration the passage carefully and select the most
b) deposition appropriate option to fill in each blank.
c) sediment
d) pigment Exercise is the (196)_______ of muscles and
Ans. D limbs which is done to (197)_____ a specific
outcome. The chief aim of doing exercise is
Q192. Select the most appropriate option to fill usually (198)_____ fitness. At the end of our
in blank number 192? (199)____ day, we prefer to (200)____ in leisure
a) influence activities rather than a workout.
b) allure
c) intimidate Q196. Select the most appropriate option to fill
d) persuade in blank no. 196?
Ans. A a) motion
b) current
Q193. Select the most appropriate option to fill c) movement
in blank number 193? d) fluctuation
a) migrate Ans. C
b) obtrude
c) forage Q197. Select the most appropriate option to fill
d) scoot in blank no. 197?
Ans. D a) yield
b) attain
Q194. Select the most appropriate option to fill c) establish
in blank number 194? d) procure
a) slipshod Ans. B
b) efficient
c) methodical Q198. Select the most appropriate option to fill
d) structured in blank no. 198?
Ans. B a) magnifying
b) amplifying
Q195. Select the most appropriate option to fill c) intensifying
in blank number 195? d) enhancing
a) preening Ans. D
b) devouring
c) flouncing
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in blank no. 199?
a) lively
b) hectic
c) furious
d) feverish
Ans. B

in blank no. 200?
a) indulge
b) luxuriate
c) abandon
d) coddle
Ans. A


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