Close Test 1 and Test 2
Test 1
1. Our lives are being transformed by ___(1)___ daily. We are keenly aware of new ___(2)___ like smart phones and the Internet, but much more lies under the surface. Novel devices, materials and technologies have ___(3)___ enormous benefits to our physical well-being in the context of medicine, housing, nutrition, security and sanitation, and to our mental well-being ___(4)___ transforming communication and socialisation. Though we are happy to purchase smart devices and use medical equipment, we are less ___(5)___ about how those technologies came into existence.
1. (a) developments (b) changes (c) progressing (d) technology
2. (a) Techniques (b) tools (c) things (d) trends
3. (a) been (b) mattered (c) brought (d) changed
4. (a) in (b) by (c) from (d) to
5. (a) curious (b) known (c) worried (d) aware
Test 2
There are a number of ways of looking at the International Cricket Council’s newly acquired __(1)__. By rolling __(2)__ the “Big Three” formula that gave India a little over 22% of the revenue (it was 3% before that) from 2014, it struck when the iron was hot. The BCCI is in a shambles, the Committee of Administrators is only a few days old, and this is as good a time as any to cut India’s income by 34%. You could argue about the actual percentages, but the attempt to __(3)__ India in is understandable. Those who have been screaming about the “unfair” treatment need only to __(4)__ that the self-designed jump in India’s share three years __(5)__ was equally unfair. As the Indian representative at the ICC meeting in Dubai said last week, “Two wrongs do not make a right.”
1. (a) spine (b) sense (c) trick (d) health
2. (a) out (b) back (c) in (d) to
3. (a) check (b) rein (c) take (d) stop
4. (a) recalled (b) remember (c) decide (d) think
5. (a) before (b) ago (c) past (d) that
Close test 3
Answer- 1. DBCBA 2. ABBBB
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