TOPIC: Cloze test, error correction
Directions (1- 10): In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
There exists a highly unequal distribution of incomes and _(1)__within countries and between countries. While billions of people enjoy ____(2)_and good health, more than one billion people live in __(3)__ poverty, struggling for mere survival every day. The poorest of the poor face the daily life-and-death challenges of insufficient nutrition, lack of healthcare, unsafe shelter, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation. A grotesquely ___(4)___distribution of income means millions of children run the risk of dying from easily treatable diseases. Economic inequality has always been a subject of _(5)_____.
As far back as 1971, Jan Pen, a Dutch economist, came up with a graphical representation of income inequality within the British economy. To draw his famous graph, the heights of all adults was imagined as ___(6)____ to their income and they were made to take part in an hour-long parade in the ascending order of their income. Pen then described what observers of average height would see. It would be a parade of dwarfs and at the very end some giants would __(7)___. The first marchers, the owners of loss-making businesses, the jobless, the working poor will not be ___(8)__at all. Their heads are below the ground. By even halfway ___(9)__ the parade, the marchers are still quite short. It takes about 45 minutes before the marchers are as tall as the observer. In the final stage, the giants will ___(10)__. With six minutes to go they are 12 feet tall; when the highest earners walk by, right at the end, each is more than two miles tall.
Q1.
(a) Advantages
(b) Assets
(c) Boon
(d) Liability
(e) Gist
Q2.
(a) Atrophy
(b) Permanence
(c) Epoch
(d) Longevity
(e) Continuity
Q3.
(a) Compact
(b) Exalted
(c) Dyspeptic
(d) Magnificent
(e) Abject
Q4.
(a) Unequal
(b) Estimable
(c) Commensurate
(d) Menacing
(e) Perilous
Q5.
(a) Discourse
(b) Pontificate
(c) Review
(d) Exegesis
(e) Observation
Q6.
(a) Convertible
(b) Homologous
(c) Proportionate
(d) Identical
(e) Substitute
Q7.
(a) Attain
(b) Happen
(c) Appear
(d) Disembark
(e) Originate
Q8.
(a) Palpable
(b) Visible
(c) Tangible
(d) Perceptible
(e) Indubitable
Q9.
(a) By
(b) Over
(c) Through
(d) With
(e) On
Q10.
(a) Drivel
(b) Obey
(c) Neglect
(d) Dominate
(e) Devour
Directions (11-15): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
Q11. Residents have been planting (a)/ the ornamental trees outside (b)/ their homes and in lawns to (c)/ add beauty and give their place a grand look. (d)/ No error (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e
Q12. The fight among (a)/ rival candidates between the medium (b)/ of catchy slogans (c)/ has started. (d)/ No error. (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e
Q13. The Moon may be the best place (a)/ to look for aliens as their (b)/ footprints on their surface would (c)/ last far longer than radio signals. (d)/ No error (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e
Q14. The state-run banks (a)/ are far more affected (b)/ by this malaise than their (c)/ counterparts in the private sector.(d)/ No error (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e
Q15. A radical environmentalist (a)/ stormed into the Discovery Channel’s (b)/ headquarters with explosives (c)/ strapped for his body. (d)/ No error (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e
ALSO CHECK:
Solutions
S1. Ans. (b)
S2. Ans. (d)
S3. Ans. (e)
S4. Ans. (a)
S5. Ans. (a)
S6. Ans. (c)
S7. Ans. (c)
S8. Ans. (b)
S9. Ans. (c)
S10. Ans. (d)
S11. Ans. (a)
Sol. Change ‘planting’ into ‘planted’ because in present perfect tense’, 3rd form of verb is used after
‘has/have’.
S12. Ans. (b)
Sol. Use ‘through’ in place of ‘between’, With ‘medium’ we use ‘through’ not between.
S13. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘Their’ is actually meant for Moon here but has been used in inappropriate way. So, use ‘its’ so that sentence gets correct.
e.g. The department has its own set-up.
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol. No error
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘Strapped’ should be followed by ‘over’ and not by “for”.
e.g. I saw a poor chap lying on the road and a blanket strapped over him.
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