English Questions: Cloze Test Set – 69

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With an excavation in southern Israel unearthing a Philistine cemetery for the first time, bones of the biblical giant Goliath’s people can finally shed new lighton..(1)..of their culture. The cemetery’s discovery marks the “crowning achievement” of some three decades of excavations in the area, the expedition’s organisers say. Some of the site’s finds were going on..(2)..on Sunday at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem. Almost three millennia since the Philistines were wiped off the face of the earth by Babylonian armies, a U.S. archaeologist was hard at work..(3)..in one of their funerary chambers at the excavation in the Mediterranean city of Ashkelon. Brush in hand, he..(4)..extracted from the sandy soil the complete skeleton of a Philistine buried with a terracotta perfume flask, fused to the skull with the passage of time. “This discovery is a..(5)..achievement, the opportunity to finally see them face to face,” said archaeologist Daniel Master, in charge of the site excavated since 1985 under the Leon Levy Expedition, affiliated with Harvard University’s Semitic Museum, among other institutions.

1.  1) miracles
2) mysteries
3)problems
4)complexities
5) puzzles

2. 1)display
2)withhold
3)reserve
4)open
5) flourish

3. 1) stretched
2)faced
3)straightened
4)crouched
5) prolonged

4. 1) sensitively
2)delicately
3)clumsily
4)strongly
5) forcefully

5. 1) commencing
2)dethroning
3)unbelieving
4)mortifying
5) crowning

The second reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) attained criticality at 8.56 p.m. on Sunday.The event was greeted with..(6)..applause from the employees, technocrats and members of the Russian specialist group.As the top brass of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, including its Chairman and Managing Director S.K. Sharma,..(7)..the milestone event from the control room, the nuclear fission started in the second reactor at the scheduled time.On commencing the First Approach to Criticality (FAC) at 7.52 p.m. on Friday by..(8)..the control rods from the reactor, boron dilution started four hours later to allow neutron concentration to go up, which eventually led to the criticality of the reactor.Once the reactor starts generating 400 MWe of power, possibly within 45 days from the date of criticality, it is likely to be..(9)..to the grid. Generation of power will be raised to 500 MWe, 750 MWe, 900 MWe and 1,000 MWe in stages.At every stage, various tests will be conducted and the technical parameters verified as mandated by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). Based on the results of the tests at each stage and with AERB clearance, which will take two to three weeks,..(10)..stages will be reached to take the VVER reactor, constructed with Russian technical assistance, to its maximum capacity of 1,000 MWe.

6. 1) peaceful
2)tranquil
3)thunderous
4)propitious
5) rumbling

7. 1) indicated
2)refuted
3)participated
4)witnessed
5) unobserved

8. 1)withdrawing
2)entering
3)inpouring
4)penetrating
5) leaving

9. 1) befuddled
2)uncoupled
3)detached
4)isolated
5)connected

10. 1) actual
2)subsequent
3)initial
4)preceding
5) previous