The Hindu Article Cloze Test For SSC and Bank 20, 21, 22, 23
Test 20
A childhood at a home surrounded with lavish greenery, birds feeling welcome in openspaces, lotuses ___(1)___ in little ponds; artiste Aasha Radhika’s latest series ‘Chalte
Chalte Udte Udte’ at Minaaz Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills ___(2)___ nostalgia for these and
more ___(3)___ the eyes of a girl. The fact that the exhibition is enveloped in similar
environs makes it more ___(4)___. The series mirrors an identity of a woman at several
___(5)___ of her life, as much as it glorifies nature. The soul of it lies in the intimate
conversations with a mother, both as a child and as a grown up woman. While one frame
is a witness to a pigeon coming out of its shell, another has a girl readying for a swim,
warming up to a peacock. One of the works shows her love for nose pins.
1. (a) bloom (b) blossoming (c) opening (d) decorating
2. (a) evokes (b) provokes (c) invokes (d) remember
3. (a) with (b) to (c) for (d) through
4. (a) better (b) look (c) fitting (d) glorifying
5. (a) steps (b) juncture (c) places (d) stages
Test 21
On 29 March, Samsung Electronics Co. will ___(1)___ its new Galaxy S8 phone. When yourelease a new product, you want to show off its cool new features. But Samsung’s launch
stands to be ___(2)___ by not one but two reputational fires the company is fighting
___(3)___.
And “fire” isn’t just a ___(4)___: One of the company’s problems is that its last smartphone
kept causing them. There were nearly 100 incidents in the US between August and
September 2016. When Samsung issued ___(5)___ phones, they started doing the same
thing.
1. (a) unveil (b) throw (c) launching (d) Unleashes
2. (a) taken over (b) Delayed (c) highlighted (d) overshadowed
3. (a) singlehandedly (b) occasionally (c) recently (d) simultaneously
4. (a) point (b) metaphor (c) figure (d) sign
5. (a) New (b) replacement (c) latest (d) good
Test 22
The Indian economy continues to outperform the ___(1)___ of its critics. This is clearly trueof the GDP growth estimates in the third quarter; ___(2)___ at variance with what the
critics of the demonetisation exercise had assumed. No doubt there could be correction in
the fourth quarter, primarily to factor the impact of the informal sector. It has never been
easy to ___(3)___ real time data on economic activity in the informal sector. It is recognised
that apart from leads and lags, the conclusions are derivative using ___(4)___ which
detract both from their timeliness and accuracy. This is not a new problem and past
estimates of GDP numbers have also suffered from multiple ex-post corrections as and
when data becomes ___(5)___.
1. (a) diagnosis (b) suggestions (c) prognosis (d) onerous
2. (a) quit (b) quiet (c) quieter (d) quite
3. (a) capture (b) capturing (c) collect (d) collecting
4. (a) abrogates (b) surrogates (c) premonition (d) subversion
5. (a) available (b) unavailable (c) dormant (d) redundant
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