Following are practice questions on English useful for IBPS and SBI Clerks Recruitments. The content is related to English – Cloze Test Model.
Practice Test – 1:
…(1)…stringent anti-pollution laws,mass awareness levels in India about the need to… 2)….environment are low. Which is …(3)…many people insist that mere laws won’t do,what we…(4)….need are “environment conscious” citizens. It is in this contest that the university’s …(5)…. to introduce environment studies as a compulsory paper at the undergraduate level…(6)…..significance. There was some…(7)…initially about who would teach because financial…(8)….make it impossible for colleges to….(9)…..approval for new teaching posts.In fact, in August 1999,the UGC imposed a ban on the creation of new teaching posts in colleges. ….(10)….with this problem authorities at the universities have decided that serving teachers belonging to various discipline will teach the paper.
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1. 1) old 2) new 3) despite 4) unless 5) until
2. 1) protect 2) pine out 3) pin down 4) press for 5) phase out
3. 1) not 2) as 3) why 4) which 5) what
4. 1) don’t 2) never 3) actually 4) s eldom 5) often
5. 1) decision 2) uncertainty 3) helplessness 4) need 5) hope
6. 1) ends 2) assumes 3) appears 4) thins out 5) fades out
7. 1) certainty 2) confusion 3) correctness 4) compulsion 5) covering
8. 1) needs 2) wants 3) gains 4) losses 5) profits
9. 1) give 2) offer 3) lend 4) accept 5) receive
10. 1) faced 2) lost 3) sank 4) ignoring 5) answering
Practice Test — 2:
The world’s climate has always changed and species have evolved accordingly to survive it. The surprising fact about the…(1)…between evolution and global warming….(2)…that it is not
linear. …(3)….temperatures alone do not….(4)…evolution. Evolution is also the….(5)….of seasonal changes. As the environment….(6)….those species which don’t adapt….(7)….to exist..But the sheer…(8)….of man-made climate change today is….(9)…. Bad things are happening and by one….(10)…..global warming could threaten upto one-third of the world’s species if left unchecked. In fact,a lot of the species which will be able to survive are the ones we consider pests like insects and weeds.
1. 1) relationship 2) similarity 3) difference 4) link 5) connection
2. 1) was 2) is 3) are 4) were 5) being
3. 1) decreasing 2) declining 3) raising 4) falling 5) sliding
4. 1) trigger 2) hanger 3) slip 4) end 5) gun down
5. 1) fall 2) rise 3) result 4) insult 5) assault
6. 1) evolves 2) entraps 3) changes 4) transfers 5) retains
7. 1) cease 2) seize 3) sneeze 4) seal 5) steal
8. 1) race 2) trace 3) pace 4) space 5) lace
9. 1) unprecedented 2) unprepared 3) unprocessed 4) unpredicted 5) unparalleled
10. 1) foresee 2) forecast 3) foreplay 4) forlorn 5) forewarn
Answers:
Practice Test 1: 1-3, 2-1, 3-3, 4-3, 5-1, 6-2, 7-2, 8-4, 9-5,10-1.
Practice Test 2: 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-1, 5-3, 6-3, 7-1, 8-3, 9-1, 10-2.