CDS | English | Cloze Test Mini Mock for CDS & Defence Exams

Question 1

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The (1) of today is a huge financial undertaking with the same outlook as any other limited company. The (2) staff have to make circulation, and if they do not work, they will soon be supplanted by those who can. Their independence therefore suffers a grave limitation. It is further curtailed by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for (3) it is said that the (4) which the public pays for its newspaper covers no more than a third of the (5) of production; the other two-thirds is accounted from by advertisement revenue.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 2

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The (1) of today is a huge financial undertaking with the same outlook as any other limited company. The (2) staff have to make circulation, and if they do not work, they will soon be supplanted by those who can. Their independence therefore suffers a grave limitation. It is further curtailed by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for (3) it is said that the (4) which the public pays for its newspaper covers no more than a third of the (5) of production; the other two-thirds is accounted from by advertisement revenue.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 3

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The (1) of today is a huge financial undertaking with the same outlook as any other limited company. The (2) staff have to make circulation, and if they do not work, they will soon be supplanted by those who can. Their independence therefore suffers a grave limitation. It is further curtailed by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for (3) it is said that the (4) which the public pays for its newspaper covers no more than a third of the (5) of production; the other two-thirds is accounted from by advertisement revenue.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 4

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The (1) of today is a huge financial undertaking with the same outlook as any other limited company. The (2) staff have to make circulation, and if they do not work, they will soon be supplanted by those who can. Their independence therefore suffers a grave limitation. It is further curtailed by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for (3) it is said that the (4) which the public pays for its newspaper covers no more than a third of the (5) of production; the other two-thirds is accounted from by advertisement revenue.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 5

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The (1) of today is a huge financial undertaking with the same outlook as any other limited company. The (2) staff have to make circulation, and if they do not work, they will soon be supplanted by those who can. Their independence therefore suffers a grave limitation. It is further curtailed by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for (3) it is said that the (4) which the public pays for its newspaper covers no more than a third of the (5) of production; the other two-thirds is accounted from by advertisement revenue.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 6

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 7

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 8

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case (blank 3).

Question 9

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 10

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 11

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 12

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 13

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 14

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 15

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

Books give us all the information (6) a man. They show (7) interest. They are the (8) of his mind. All the riches of the world (9) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and (10) books is a poor man. Books have become so cheap that a library can (11) be made. Money spent on good books is never (12) it is a (13) to read good books. Thus, man gains both (14) and wisdom. You can (15) your library with the expenditure of only a few hundred rupees.

Find the appropriate word in each case.