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English Questions: Cloze Test Set – 146

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The worsening situation in urban areas is well known — not only the wage-earning poor but the middle class too is (1) affected by the overnight artificial and extreme loss of purchasing power involved in the demonetisation exercise. Millions of hours during working days are being (2) by people in standing in long queues at banks, and many are turned away (3) with the new cash running out. For the physically frail and senior citizens, it is a risky and indeed impossible exercise to obtain the new notes. A number of deaths have taken place already owing to the inability to purchase medicines or obtain timely medical care. The government has (4) that it will take many weeks to fill the gap in money supply.
With the severe loss of purchasing power, the country is being (5) into an (6) created recession and the level of economic activity is declining. To prevent further damage to the economy and to (7) distress among the people, the (8) of demonetisation should be revoked immediately. The government can replace existing currency notes with new notes, but in a more planned, orderly and phased manner and over a longer period, bearing in mind that the bulk of our population needs humble money to carry on (9) small daily transactions, and Rs.2,000 notes which cannot be changed are of no use to them. Citizens and leaders of all political parties, including the ruling party, should unite to demand immediate revocation of the demonetisation measure before the situation worsens any further. There is nothing to prevent the government from continuing to investigate or (10) suspected tax evaders.

  1. 1) soared
    2) coherent
    3) adversely
    4) lucid
    5) comprehensible
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : adversely

  2. 1) employment
    2) rigid
    3) running
    4) wasted
    5) operation
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : wasted

  3. 1) immediately
    2) eventually
    3) suddenly
    4) occasionally
    5) generally
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : eventually

  4. 1) dejected
    2) accepted
    3) rejected
    4) committed
    5) admitted
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : admitted

  5. 1) mischance
    2) semiarid
    3) driven
    4) provokes
    5) amides
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : driven

  6. 1) gradually
    2) intentionally
    3) indiclly
    4) artificially
    5) naturally
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : artificially

  7. 1) brigade
    2) relieve
    3) privilege
    4) envisage
    5) assuage
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : relieve

  8. 1) acrid
    2) plausible
    3) measure
    4) manage
    5) counting
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : measure

  9. 1) enumerate
    2) clinch
    3) telly
    4) compute
    5) myriad
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : myriad

  10. 1) raid
    2) casuistry
    3) erased
    4) ceased
    5) casualty
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : raid