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AP Inter 2nd Year English Cloze Test with Answers
The word “cloze” comes from the idea of “closure” in reading – our mind automatically tries to fill in missing information to make sense of a text.
A Cloze Test is a type of exercise in which a passage is given with certain missing words, and students are required to fill in the blanks with the most suitable words. It reflects the knowledge in grammar and vocabulary focused on the skill of Reading.
Examples
Example 1.
Riya is a bright student. She always ____(1)____ her homework on time. She is very good ____(2)____ mathematics and often helps her friends. Her teachers are proud (3) her.
Options :
1. does / do / did
2. in / at / on
3. of / for / with
Answers:
1. does
2. at
3. of
Example 2.
Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today. It is mainly caused ____ (1)____ the emission of greenhouse gases. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, leading ____(2)____ rising temperatures. Unless urgent steps are taken, the consequences ____(3)____ be disastrous for all living beings.
Options :
1. by / from / with
2. to / for / in
3. will / would / should
Answers:
1. by
2. to
3. will
Example 3.
Technology has become an essential part of modem life. The internet has not only ____(1)____ communication faster but also opened new opportunities for learning and business. However, excessive use of digital devices ____(2)____ harmful effects on health. Therefore, it is ____(3)____ to strike a balance between the use of technology and maintaining real-life interactions.
Options :
1. made / make / making
2. have / has / had
3. important / importance / importantly
Answers:
1. made
2. has
3. important
Practice
Practice these exercises to get more acquainted with the Cloze Test.
Question 1.
Health is the greatest wealth. A person who ____(1)____ fit and healthy can enjoy life fully. Balanced diet and regular exercise play an important role ____(2)____ maintaining good health. We must also drink clean water and avoid junk food, which often is ____(3)____ for the body.
Mental health is equally important; one should practice activities like yoga and meditation to stay ____(4)____. In the end, discipline and healthy habits always help us to remain ____(5)____ in life.
Options :
1. is / are / was
2. at / in / for
3. harmful / harmfully / harm
4. calm / sadness / tiring
5. successful / failure / success
Answers:
1. is
2. in
3. harmful
4. calm
5. successful
Question 2.
Jill was walking to her class slowly. She was worried ____(1)____ the History test she would have to ____(2)____ that morning. As she was reaching the classroom, a piece of paper suddenly fluttered down and ____(3)____ near her feet. As Jill glanced down at the paper, her heart nearly ____(4)____ a beat. It was the History test paper complete ____(15____ answers!
Options :
1. with / about / along
2. take / get / do
3. came / landed / went
4. slowed / missed / got
5. in / for / with
Answers:
1. about
2. take
3. landed
4. missed
5. with
Question 3.
Oliver set out to walk to London. He had nothing in his pocket but a crust of bread. When that ____(1)____ gone, he had to beg for food. He slept wherever he could find shelter. When the weather was fine, he ____(2)____ on a field or under a hedge. He was cold, tired, hungry and ragged. His feet ____(3)____ torn and bleeding. ____(4)____ on he went for seven days. Then, early one morning, he ____(5)____ the little town of Barnet, not far from London.
(From the abridged version of OBver Twist by Charles Dickens)
Options :
1. is / was / were
2. sleep / slept / sleeping
3. was / are / were
4. but / and / so
5. enter / entering / entered
Answers:
1. was
2. slept
3. were
4. but
5. entered
Question 4.
However, I didn’t care. As ____(1)____ student of history, I had read Hiuen Tsang’s book Si-Yu-Ki. Before Tsang’s travel to India, everybody discouraged him from making the journey on foot, but he ____(2)____ to listen and decided to go. In time he became ____(3)____ for his seventeen-year-long journey to India. Taking ____(4)____ from Tsahg, I told my family, ‘I want to do engineering. Come what may, I am ready for the ____(5)____ of my actions.’
(From Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty)
Options :
1. a / an / the
2. agreed / refused / nodded
3. fancy / famous / notorious
4. courage / courageous / courageously
5. complete / complicated / consequences
Answers:
1. a
2. refused
3. famous
4. courage
5. consequences
Question 5.
We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and ____(1)____ slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit ____(2)____ its centre about once every several hundred million years. Our sun is just ____(3)____ ordinary, average-sized, yellow star, near the inner edge ____(4)____ one of the spiral arms. We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought ____(5)____ the earth was the centre of the universe!
(From A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking)
Options :
1. is / are / was
2. about / around / along
3. a / an / the
4. of / on / with
5. this / that / than
Answers :
1. is
2. around
3. an
4. of
5. that
Exercise
Complete the following cloze test by filling in the blanks with the suitable words given below.
Note : If you find the passage interesting, you can continue reading and enjoy the books mentioned in the brackets, at the end of each passage. All the best!
Question 1.
If we want to make ____(1)____, let’s put ourselves out to do things for ____(2)____ people-things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness. When the Duke of Windsor was Prince of Wales, he was scheduled to tour South America, and ____(3)____ he started out on that tour he spent months studying Spanish ____(4)____ that he could make public talks in the language of the country; and the South Americans ____(5)____ him for it.
(From How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie)
Options :
1. friends / enemies t relatives
2. our / your / other
3. after / before / during
4. and / so / but
5. lovely / loved / lovingly
Answers:
1. friends
2. other
3. before
4. so
5. loved
Question 2.
There are also echoes of Einstein in Hawking on a ____(1)____ personal level. Their natural inquisitiveness and extraordinary intellects failed to shine ____(2)____ the constraints of early, formal education. On a related note, ____(3)____ men found their mathematical knowledge sometimes ____(4)____ behind the advances in their theoretical thinking. In other words, both have at times struggled to conquer the maths that ____(5)____ the phenomenan they can visualize in their minds.
(From How to Think Like Stephen Hawking by Daniel Smith)
Options :
1. more / most / many
2. without / within / with other
3. each / both / other
4. lag / lagged / lagging
5. explains / examples / enters
Answers:
1. more
2. within
3. both
4. lagged
5. explains
Question 3.
Looking back on my days as ____(1)____ young scientist, I am aware that one of the most constant and powerful urges I experienced was my ____(2)____ to be more than what I was at that moment. I desired to feel more, learn more, express more. I desired to ____(3)____ improve, purify, expand. I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within ____(4)____ . The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come. After all, what is life but a ____(5)____ of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories, and amorphous defeats ?
(From Wings of Fire An Autobiography by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)
Options :
1. an / a / the
2. desire / need / demand
3. growth / grow / grew
4. himself / myself / yourself
5. mixture / medium / mobile
Answers:
1. a
2. desire
3. grow
4. myself
5. mixture
Question 4.
Technology is great if we’re in control of it. It’s not so great if it takes control ____(1)____ us. For example, if you have to write a research paper, you might sit down at your computer and use Google to look ____(2)____ the information you need. However, if you’re not very disciplined, you might end up surfing the Web instead of writing that paper. In that case, Google and the Internet will have taken ____(3)____ pulling you out of your state of flow.
It has been scientifically shown that if we continually ask our brains ____(4)____ switch back and forth between tasks, we waste time, make more mistakes, and’remember less ____(5)____ what we’ve done.
(From Ikigai by Hector Garcia & Francis Miralles)
Options :
1. of / on / for
2. in / up / at
3. under / over / into
4. to / in / of
5. on / at / of
Answers:
1. of
2. up
3. over
4. to
5. of
Question 5.
A business executive ____(1)____ me that he puts his dependence upon the “emergency powers of the human brain.” It is his theory, and a ____(2)____ one, that a human being possesses extra powers that may be tapped and ____(3)____ under emergency situations. In the ordinary conduct of day-by-day living, these emergency powers ____(4)____ dormant, but under extraordinary circumstances the personality is able, when called upon, to deliver extra power if ____(5)____.
(From The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
Options :
1. tell / told / telling
2. sound / sounded / sounding
3. utilize / utilized / utilization
4. lies / lie / lied
5. needed / need / needing
Answers:
1. told
2. sound
3. utilized
4. lie
5. needed
Question 6.
The baby elephant wasn’t out of place in our home in north India ____(1)____. India is where elephants belong, and in any case our house was full of pets ____(2)____ home by Grandfather, who was in the Forest Service. ____(3)____ the cassowary bird was different. No one had ever seen such a bird before-not in India, atleast. Grandfather had picked it up ____(4)____ a voyage to Singapore, where he’d been given the bird by a rubber planter who’d got it from a Dutch ____(5)____ who’d got it from a man in Indonesia.
(From The Elephant and the Cassowary by Ruskin Bond)’
Options :
1. but / because / so
2. brought / bring / bringing
3. so/but/or
4. for/in/on r
5. trade / trader / trading
Answers:
1. because
2. brought
3. but
4. on
5. trader
Question 7.
Rogers, summoned before the court, had ____(1)____ little to tell. He had been busy all the morning about household duties and with the ____(2)____ of lunch. He had taken cocktails on to the terrace before lunch and had ____(3)____ gone up to remove his things from the attic to another room. He had not looked ____(4)____ of the window during the morning and had seen nothing that could have any bearing upon the death of General Macarthur. He would swear definitely that there ____(5)____. been eight china figures upon the dining-table when he laid the table for lunch.
(From And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie)
Options :
1. vary / very / verify
2. preparation / prepare / preparedness
3. than / then / there
4. from / out / in
5. had / have / has
Answers:
1. very
2. preparation
3. then
4. out
5. had
Question 8.
‘No more delays, comrades!’ cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. ‘There is work to be done. This very morning we ____(1)____ rebuilding the windmill, and we will ____(2)____ all through the winter, rain or shine. We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot ____(3)____ our work so easily. Remember, comrades, there must be no alteration in our plans: they shall be carried ____(4)____ to the day. Forward, comrades! Long live the windmill ! Long ____(5)____ Animal Farm !’
(From Artimal Farm by George Orwell)
Options :
1. begin / began / begins
2. build / built / builds
3. do / undo / redo
4. on / out / with
5. lives / live/leave
Answers :
1. begin
2. build
3. undo
4. out
5. live
Question 9.
He could not ____(1)____ the green of the shore now but only the tops of the blue hills that showed white as ____(2)____ they were snow-capped and the clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them. The sea was very dark and the light ____(3)____ prisms in the water. The ____(4)____ of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down ____(5)____ the water that was a mile deep.
(From The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway)
Options :
1. see / saw / seen
2. though / through / thought
3. make / made / making
4. flecks / flicks / fleas
5. in / into / on
Answers :
1. see
2. though
3. made
4. flecks
5. into
Question 10.
‘Listen to me ____(1)____. I will give you fifty copies of this and you will take them to the army camp at Belliali. The poor fellows there cannot have any ____(2)____ of what is happening in the world since they are not allowed to listen in to truth, but only to the cock-and-bull stories that the British War Department ____(3)____. Our boys must ____(4)____ the truth. They must know where Subhas Babu is, where the Indian National Army is stationed, and what is to be done. It is our duty to propagate ____(5)____ wherever it may be. Has not Mahatmaji told us so ?’
(From Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan)
Options :
1. careful / carefully / caring
2. nation / notion / negotiation
3. issue / issues / issuing
4. know / knows / have been knowing
5. true / truth / truly
Answers :
1. carefully
2. notion
3. issues
4. know
5. truth