CAT EXAM| Verbal ability| Cloze test

 Cloze test


Given below is a sample question for a cloze test, which shall enable you to understand the topic well and also to analyse the pattern of the questions appearing under this topic.

Question: Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks with the suitable option:

Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It’s the only _________ (a) known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface and, of course, life.

The fifth-largest planet of the Solar system is the Earth. It is smaller ________ (b) the four gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but larger than the three other rocky planets, Mercury, Mars and Venus.

Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles and is ________ (c) because gravity pulls matter into a ball. But, it is not perfectly round. Earth is really an “oblate spheroid,” because its spin causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

71 per cent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, and most of that is in the oceans. About a fifth of Earth’s atmosphere consists of oxygen, produced by ________ (d). While scientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Q 1. (a)

  1. Planet
  2. Moon
  3. Satellite
  4. Surface
  5. Life

Answer: (1) Planet

Q 2. (b)

  1. For
  2. Then
  3. Than
  4. There
  5. On

Answer: (3) Than

Q 3. (c)

  1. Oval
  2. Round
  3. Square
  4. Uneven
  5. Disrupted

Answer: (2) Round

Q 4. (d)

  1. Animals
  2. Humans
  3. Living Beings
  4. Plants
  5. None of the Above

Answer: (4) Plants

 

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