English Questions: Cloze Test Set – 51

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The terminology of the draft is psychotically comprehensive. “Whoever depicts, disseminates, publishes or..(1)..any wrong or false topographic information of India” can be held to account. Apart from printers, publishers, media and film makers who..(2)..maps in their productions, this would include private citizens posting on social media, and even village children..(3)..maps with chalk on their slates. But would not the last two be culpable even if their maps were reasonably..(4)..? They did not take prior permission, did they? Off to the cooler with them! The..(5)..of speculation opened up by this bill is limitless. Now, can we please sue the estates of Vasco da Gama and Marco Polo for..(6)..for the East with wildly inaccurate maps? Is Alfred Wegener culpable for identifying the forces of continental..(7).., which slowly but inexorably..(8)..land masses? Continental drift will one day cause Uttar Pradesh to vanish under Nepal, which is clearly an anti-national act, on par with the loss of Aksai Chin. But what about..(9)..maps which enlarge the land mass of India instead of whittling it down? Will the map of Akhand Bharat see the RSS in the dock? Should expansiveness of the..(10)..be penalised thus?

1. 1) distributes
   2) contributors
   3) developers
   4) administrators
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : distributes
   
   
2. 1) mix up
   2) distort
   3) adept
   4) depict
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : depict – represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form.
   
   
3. 1) understanding
   2) confusing
   3) scrawling
   4) sense
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : scrawling – write (something) in a hurried, careless way.
   
   
4. 1) timid
   2) accurate
   3) faulty
   4) inaccurate
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : accurate
   
   
5. 1) prevent
   2) interior
   3) inside
   4) ambit
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : ambit – the scope, extent, or bounds of something.
   
   
6. 1) dissipating
   2) embarking
   3) concluding
   4) consummating
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : embarking – go on board a ship or aircraft.
   
   
7. 1) drift
   2) direct
   3) guide
   4) conceive
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation : drift – be carried slowly by a current of air or water.
   
   
8. 1) sustain
   2) remain
   3) retain
   4) alter
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : alter – change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
   
   
9. 1) true
   2) notion
   3) erroneous
   4) right
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : erroneous – wrong; incorrect.
   
   
10. 1) being
    2) reality
    3) despite
    4) spirit
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : spirit – the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.