English Questions: Cloze Test Set – 8

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In the following passage, there are ten blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested. Select the one that fits the bank appropriately.

With the new government in New Delhi more than a year in the (1) , things earlier implicit have now become (2) . ‘Indian’ ( Hindu) values are no long (3) as universal. Or rather, the West is perceived as the repository of (4) values, both positive and negative. ‘Hindu values’ are universal in so far as they are recognised by the West as being so — such as when yoga was (5) as having ‘gone global’ last weekend with images of people in (6) cities on their yoga mats.The signs of Western cultural universality are everywhere we turn: our clothes, our shoes, the (7) we drive in, the fact that we wear spectacles.… Our entire material civilization is Western. (8) this, the West, by virtue of its spectacular achievements in the domains of science, industry, commerce and art, is seen as an (9) spokesperson of the human race.When the president of the US speaks about American values, he speaks on behalf of the human race as a whole. When Narendra Modi speaks of the Bhagwad Gita, he speaks on the (10) of Hindus.

1. a.remarkable
   b.unsaddle
   c.saddle
   d.peculiar
   e.Unusual
   
   Answer

   c.saddle
   
   
2. ‎a.explicit
   b.difficult
   c.complex
   d.tacit
   e.latent
   
   Answer

   a.explicit
   
   
3. a.agreed
   b.accepted
   c.perceived
   d.tackled
   e.comprehend
   
   Answer

   c.perceived
   
   
4. a.social
   b.general
   c.national
   d.Universal
   e.initial
   
   Answer

   d.universal
   
   
5. ‎a.restrain
   b.hailed
   c.discourage
   d.hurled
   e.extinguish
   
   Answer

   b.hailed
   
   
6. ‎a.models
   b.decorous
   c.acculturation
   d.values
   e.vehicles
   
   Answer

   e.vehicles
   
   
7. ‎a.western
   b.abroad
   c.national
   d.foreign
   e.overseas
   
   Answer

   a.western
   
   
8. ‎a.instead
   b.besides
   c.though
   d.in-spite
   e.although
   
   Answer

   b.besides
   
   
9. a.intended
   b.automatic
   c.deliberate
   d.intentional
   e.wanton
   
   Answer

   b.automatic
   
   
10. ‎a.depend
    b.yield
    c.accord
    d.bracket
    e.behalf
    
    Answer

    e.behalf
    
    
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