Cloze test on The Hindu Article 10 , Test 11
Cloze test on The Hindu Article 10 , Test 11
The Trump administration’s aggressive __(a)__ towards China, hesitations over extended security guarantees in East Asia and the withdrawal from the TPP could __(2)__ a series of geopolitical developments in the __(3)__. First, Chinese influence will increase __(4)__ its smaller neighbours would have no option but to acquiesce. Second, the rise of Russian and Chinese geopolitical influence and their bilateral partnership will __(5)__ the entire region, including India. Third, with China and North Korea in their neighbourhood, both South Korea and Japan will be forced to increase their own military build-up.
1. (a) pestering (b) posturing (c) posturing (d) playing
2. (a) trigger (b) started (c) close (d) derail
3. (a) reason (b) legion (c) areas (d) region
4. (a) and (b) but (c) however (d) farther
5. (a) effect (b) impact (c) play (d) find
Sometimes, it seems that to understand our __(1)__ society, all that we need to do is to understand our __(2)__ at traffic lights. Every day, I see countless people on bikes and cars driving through red lights. Earlier, I used to get __(3)__ that these people were blatantly flouting a rule that many others were __(4)__, more so when they did it right in front of indifferent traffic police. Now I realise that while this might be just another __(5)__ of rule-breaking that seems to be an essential definition of being Indian, at a deeper level it is also reflective of a far greater problem confronting our society.
1. (a) complete (b) own (c) complex (d) bad
2. (a) rules (b) behaviour (c) system (d) day
3. (a) angrily (b) annoying (c) upset (d) happy
4. (a) declining (b) following (c) asking (d) forgiving
5. (a) instance (b) chance (c) form (d) proud
Just before he was __(1)__ as the U.S. President, Donald Trump __(2)__ out some principles of what appeared to be his non-interventionist foreign policy. “We will stop racing to __(3)__ foreign regimes that we know nothing __(4)__, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” he said in North Carolina. “Instead our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying ISIS, and we will.” What Mr. Trump implied is that his administration would not conduct regime-change operations — such as against Iraq in 2003 during the George W. Bush ----5— and certainly not indulge in nation- building outside the United States.
1. (a) appoint (b) inaugurated (c) electing (d) defined
2. (a) lay (b) laid (c) lain (d) lied
3. (a) topple (b) tackle (c) travel (d) talk
4. (a) to (b) for (c) from (d) about
5. (a) party (b) team (c) action (d) administration
Answer -
10. CADAB
11. CBCBA
12. BBADD
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Test 10
The Trump administration’s aggressive __(a)__ towards China, hesitations over extended security guarantees in East Asia and the withdrawal from the TPP could __(2)__ a series of geopolitical developments in the __(3)__. First, Chinese influence will increase __(4)__ its smaller neighbours would have no option but to acquiesce. Second, the rise of Russian and Chinese geopolitical influence and their bilateral partnership will __(5)__ the entire region, including India. Third, with China and North Korea in their neighbourhood, both South Korea and Japan will be forced to increase their own military build-up.
1. (a) pestering (b) posturing (c) posturing (d) playing
2. (a) trigger (b) started (c) close (d) derail
3. (a) reason (b) legion (c) areas (d) region
4. (a) and (b) but (c) however (d) farther
5. (a) effect (b) impact (c) play (d) find
Test 11
Sometimes, it seems that to understand our __(1)__ society, all that we need to do is to understand our __(2)__ at traffic lights. Every day, I see countless people on bikes and cars driving through red lights. Earlier, I used to get __(3)__ that these people were blatantly flouting a rule that many others were __(4)__, more so when they did it right in front of indifferent traffic police. Now I realise that while this might be just another __(5)__ of rule-breaking that seems to be an essential definition of being Indian, at a deeper level it is also reflective of a far greater problem confronting our society.
1. (a) complete (b) own (c) complex (d) bad
2. (a) rules (b) behaviour (c) system (d) day
3. (a) angrily (b) annoying (c) upset (d) happy
4. (a) declining (b) following (c) asking (d) forgiving
5. (a) instance (b) chance (c) form (d) proud
Test 12
Just before he was __(1)__ as the U.S. President, Donald Trump __(2)__ out some principles of what appeared to be his non-interventionist foreign policy. “We will stop racing to __(3)__ foreign regimes that we know nothing __(4)__, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” he said in North Carolina. “Instead our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying ISIS, and we will.” What Mr. Trump implied is that his administration would not conduct regime-change operations — such as against Iraq in 2003 during the George W. Bush ----5— and certainly not indulge in nation- building outside the United States.
1. (a) appoint (b) inaugurated (c) electing (d) defined
2. (a) lay (b) laid (c) lain (d) lied
3. (a) topple (b) tackle (c) travel (d) talk
4. (a) to (b) for (c) from (d) about
5. (a) party (b) team (c) action (d) administration
Answer -
10. CADAB
11. CBCBA
12. BBADD
English Section http://www.careerssc.com/p/common-error.html
Current Affairs http://www.careerssc.com/p/blog-page.html
Facebook page - www.facebook.com/careerssc
