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English Questions: Cloze Test Set – 112

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in Affairs Cloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in Cloze test, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams !!!

I read this really cute (1) about a bunch of disciples that go to their Guru and say they want to go on a pilgrimage to improve themselves and their (2). The Guru asks them to take a ‘karela’ (bitter gourd) with them and get it blessed by every deity. When they return he asks them to cook the (3) vegetable and upon eating it remarks, “How strange, this is still bitter despite being so blessed.” When disciples say that it is the nature of the vegetable to be so, the Guru replies, “this is what you need to learn unless you change your nature, nothing and certainly no pilgrimages can help.” The secret to (4) lies in your own being. And whether you allow yourself to change positively or negatively is really up to you and not others. I know of people who say that a bad relationship has made them go “cold and hard”. Well, let me tell you that no one can make you what you don’t want to be. No one likes being cold and hard. And no one likes a cold and hard person. So, why be unlikeable to yourself and others and let someone whom you don’t even like (5) affect you and the rest of your life so adversely? Why give so much power to someone who actually doesn’t matter anymore? The good news is that unlike the ‘karela’, you can change what is bitter within but just like the story, realise that whatever you set out to do, in order to change, help or transform you and your life, it has to be done with it being felt and (6) from within. People try to recover from grief by burying themselves in “spiritual practices”.  But (7) mantras is of zero value if done because it needs to be done. Doing an act of charity in a matter of fact manner is not a (8) of “great character”. Meditating or doing yoga with your mind racing all over the place achieves nothing. Intent and (9) is king. Don’t look for saviours, don’t look for distractions, don’t be content with playing the (10). The problem lies within you and the only way to change it is to change yourself positively in order to change your reality to being a positive one.

  1. 1) anecdote
    2) true
    3) passive
    4) prestigious
    5) prestige
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : anecdote

  2. 1) indifferent
    2) carelessness
    3) devotion
    4) avoidance
    5) negligence
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : devotion

  3. 1) pleasant
    2) privilege
    3) bland
    4) mild
    5) bitter
    Answer – 5) 
    Explanation : bitter

  4. 1) observation
    2) stagnation
    3) preservation
    4) transformation
    5) sameness
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : transformation

  5. 1) anymore
    2) anyone
    3) someone
    4) others
    5) no one
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : anymore

  6. 1) confused
    2) assumption
    3) perceptions
    4) resonated
    5) stoic
    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation : resonated

  7. 1) downward
    2) creating
    3) dipping
    4) mouthing
    5) sloping
    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation : mouthing

  8. 1) Assignation
    2) validation
    3) allegation
    4) available
    5) pigmentation
    Answer – 2) 
    Explanation : validation

  9. 1) clinching
    2) adverting
    3) heedlessness
    4) inadvertency
    5) mindfulness
    Answer – 5) 
    Explanation : mindfulness

  10. 1) evildoer
    2) victim
    3) delinquent
    4) convict
    5) delinquent
    Answer – 2) 
    Explanation : victim





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