CLOSE TEST 1

DIRECTIONS: In the following sentences, at certain points there are blanks, each of the which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each you are given a choice of three words – one of which is most appropriate. Choose the best word out of the three. Mark the letter, viz., A, B or C relating to this word on your Answer Sheet. 

The British lived in India for nearly a hundred and fifty years but they remained foreigners to the last fifty years but they remained foreigners to the last, unlike all other foreign people who came to India before. ….1…took for themselves everything they…2…get from our land and…3…people, leaving the country in a…4…and more miserable condition than…5…had ever been before. How…6…we allow this to happen.

1. (a) some (b) they
    (c) many (d) same
2. (a) would (b) can
     (c) could (d) will
3. (a) our (b) their
    (c) poor (d) where
4. (a) poorer (b) richer
    (c) wretched (d) poor
5. (a) we (b) they
    (c) it (d) this
6. (a) should (b) did
    (c) can (d) could

To emancipate woman and make her the equal of man remains an impossibility so long as the woman is shut out from socially productive labour and restricted to private domestic labour. The emancipation of woman will only be …(7)…when she can take part in production on a large social…(8)…and domestic work no longer claims anything but an…(9)…of her time. And only now has that become possible through modern large scale…(10)…which does not merely permit the…(11)…range but positively demands.



7. (a) probable (b) easy
    (c) possible (d) tuff
8. (a) measure (b) scale
    (c) proportion (d) measurement
9. (a) unimportant amount (b) insignificant
    (c) trivial (d) amount
10. (a) enterprise (b) trade
    (c) industry (d) business
11. (a) use (b) employment
    (c) absorption (d) used
12. (a) large (b) broad
    (c) wide (d) larger


when I got off the plane at Heathrow airport, I had the first taste of English hospitality. For I was immediately bonded off to a hospital. No, not because I was…13…but to find out whether I was. And truth to say, it wasn’t…14…a hospital, but only the sick bay at the airport. Someone at the immigration counter had taken it into his…15…that I was too thin and an instant X-ray would be in order. Needless to say, I much….16….this extra attention. I would much rather have walked away like the other passengers. The X-ray…17…an extra half-hour of my time. This did not…18…me as much as the discovery that the famous British sense of humour was by no means ubiquitous.


13. (a) wicked (b) ill
      (c) senseless (d) sense
14. (a) materially (b) factually
      (c) actually (d) material
15. (a) mind (b) head
     (c) judgment (d) judge
16 (a) respected (b) liked
    (c) resented (d) like
17. (a) took (b) demanded
    (c) extracted (d) extract
18. (a) excite (b) annoy
    (c) please (d) pleased

Gandhiji’s epithet is not just honorific, it tells the truth about him. He was indeed a ‘great soul’. He may have been the…19…of any that have made…20…appearance in our time. He…21…undoubtedly the peer of the…22…souls of previous ages from….23…. we have surviving records of…24…personalities.

19. (a) greatest (b) man
      (c) smallest (d) longest
20. (a) our (b) sudden
      (c) their (d) here
21. (a) had (b) was
      (c) bore (d) were
22. (a) known (b) available
     (c) greatest (d) know
23. (a) which (b) those
    (c) whom (d) this
24. (a) outstanding (b) poor
    (c) ordinary (d) simple

It is regrettable that the press, radio and television still tend too often to present old age in an unhappily one-sided way. I believe that they do this from the…25…of motives. They are trying to…26…the conscience of society to the…(27)…of those elderly people who refuse help, who are lonely, destitute, ill…28…institutionalized and so on. I am…29…the media achieve…30…response and some amelioration of the situation for some of these people.

25. (a) wildest (b) best
      (c) worst (d) good
26. (a) awaken (b) pinch
      (c) disturb (d)
27. (a) misery (b) plight
     (c) crisis (d) none
28. (a) lost (b) forgotten
     (c) bed-ridden (d) forget
29. (a) uncertain (b) sure
    (c) worried (d) certain
30. (a) any (b) some
    (c) little (d) same


ANSWERS

1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (c)
4. (c)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (c)
8. (b)
9. (b)
10. (a)
11. (b)
12. (c)
13. (a)
14. (c)
15. (b)
16. (c)
17. (a)
18. (a)
19. (a)
20. (c)
21. (b)
22. (c)
23. (a)
24. (a)
25. (c)
26. (d)
27. (b)
28. (a)
29. (c)
30. (c)