English Questions Cloze Test Set – 18

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A..(1)..modernity has..(2)..the belief that technology can bring about the liberation of human beings. Therefore, it is not surprising that the post-colonial history of colonised nations is also largely a history of this unrealisable fantasy. Digital India is the latest..(3)… The..(4)..is that what goes missing in the search of a “technological fix” is human beings themselves. What should worry us is not the digital divide, but the fundamental divide between a rapidly growing technological capability and a..(5)..growth in eliminating human..(6)…
Mr. Modi’s Digital India speech at Silicon Valley showed his remarkable continuity with the policies of post-independence governments, which..(7)..ignored the fundamental bases of development, health and education, leading to..(8)..failures in eliminating deprivation. Is it of any surprise that in 2011, 50 per cent of rural India was illiterate or..(9)..semiliterate? Or that dengue overwhelms New Delhi now? All this is the result of an impoverished understanding of development as merely economic growth and progress in science and technology, rather than ensuring basic human capacities and dignity. Hence, we are in a..(10)..in which 71 per cent of rural India owns mobile phones while 75 per cent of it lives on Rs. 33 per day.

1. A. inarticulate
   B. glib
   C. quiet
   D. uncommunicative
   
   Answer

   B. glib
   superficial,not deep,सतही
   
   
2. A. declined
   B. constrained
   C. perpetrated
   D. abstained
   
   Answer

   C. perpetrated
   treyt – perform,करना
   
   
3. A. rebuff
   B. repulse
   C. repulse
   D. enchantment
   
   Answer

   D. enchantment
   fascination,सम्मोहन
   
   
4. A. irony
   B. consideration
   C. deference
   D. frustration
   
   Answer

   A. irony
   Satire,विडम्बना
   
   
5. A. diligent
   B. zealous
   C. snail-like
   D. enthusiastic
   
   Answer

   C. snail-like
   slow,धीमा
   
   
6. A. forbearance
   B. deprivation
   C. endowment
   D. offering
   
   Answer

   B. deprivation
   needsअभाव
   
   
7. A. grievously
   B. pleasant
   C. harmless
   D. churlish
   
   Answer

   A. grievously
   painfully,कष्टदायक
   
   
8. A. diminutive
   B. minikin
   C. infinitesimal
   D. colossal
   
   Answer

   D. colossal
   big,बड़ा
   
   
9. A. semiliterate
   B. uneducated
   C. literate
   D. instructed
   
   Answer

   A. semiliterate
   
   
10. A. portent
    B. thaumaturgy
    C. conjuncture
    D. wonder
    
    Answer

    C. conjuncture
    combination of events,सयोंग