The Hindu Article Cloze Test For SSC and Bank 13, 14, 15

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Test 13

The __(1)__ to find life outside the solar system got a big __(2)__ with the discovery of seven
Earth-size extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, orbiting a dwarf star about 40 light __(3)__
away. Unlike __(4)__ discoveries of exoplanets, all seven planets could possibly have liquid
water — a key to life as we know it on Earth — with three planets having the greatest
__(5).
1. (a) request (b) plan (c) quest (d) jest
2. (a) boost (b) bang (c) best (d) boast
3. (a) year (b) years (c) lifes (d) time
4. (a) former (b) erstwhile (c) earlier (d) expunge
5. (a) earth (b) sand (c) water (d) chance

Test 14

Indians do not have the patience to focus on a problem for an __(a)__ period of time. We do
not think of institutions in the long __(b)__. We __(3)__ when there is a crisis but when a
crisis __(4)__, we lose our focus. As a result, we are __(5)__ at institution-building.
1. (a) extra (b) extending (c) extended (d) longest
2. (a) run (b) distance (c) time (d) act
3. (a) Laugh (b) panic (c) fall (d) fell
4. (a) dim (b) dims (c) dimming (d) dull
5. (a) less (b) good (c) poor (d) laughing

Test 15

There are many stories about the __(1)__ of Bengaluru’s name. One popular __(2)__
version recounts the tale of a king from the Hoysala dynasty coming to the city in the 12th
century on a hunting __(3)__ and losing his way. The hungry king, the story goes, was
given a traditional welcome __(4)__ an old woman, who offered him water and boiled
beans—benda kaalu in Kannada. The grateful king was supposed to __(5)__ the settlement
“Bendakaaluru”: The town of boiled beans. This evidently metamorphosed to Bengaluru in
due course of time.
1. (a) creating (b) search (c) making (d) origin
2. (a) apocryphal (b) famous (c) right (d) story
3. (a) space (b) spree (c) visits (d) trail
4. (a) to (b) by (c) from (d) for
5. (a) name (b) have named (c) for naming (d) naming

Test 16

India’s decision to __(1)__ its __(2)__ roads in Mizoram and Tripura to be used by
Bangladeshi forces __(3) they construct border outposts in the __(4)__ terrain of the
Chittagong Hill Tracts shows __(5)__ how far the two countries have come to bridging their
trust deficit.
1. (a) permitting (b) allow (c) give (d) access
2. (a) broader (b) border (c) own (d) bumpy
3. (a) for (b) as (c) while (d) whereas
4. (a) volition (b) inhospitable (c) quaint (d) laconic
5. (a) that (b) just (c) which (d) what
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