Cloze Test For SBI PO & Clerk

Directions (1-15): In the passage given below there are blanks which are to be filled with the options given below. Find out the appropriate word in each case which can most suitably complete the sentence without altering the meaning of the statement.

(1).......to clear the Civil Services preliminary twice in a row had severely(2)....... her self- esteem. Now, having bagged 26th rank in her third attempt, Shyama says she started
believing in herself again after a  marathon she (3)........ completed last year. This electronics engineer from Beypore, Kozhikode, began to (4)......... Civil Services (5)......... once she started working as a design consultant in Deloitte, Bengaluru. She(6)......... for the prelims twice and (7)........ missed being (8)......... the second time. “I was (9)......... and had to do something to (10)........ myself. I always wanted to run a marathon and it was the right time,” Ms. Shyama said. She (11)......... for the marathon for three months and  completed the 21-km Bangalore Midnight Marathon in 2017. “I (12).......... that I could do anything if I put my mind into it.” She prefers a career in the Indian Foreign Service. “Most of India’s problems need (13).........  solutions.” IFS, with the (14)........ and opportunity to travel it provides, will make her a (15)......... person, she feels.

Q1.(a) Aim
(b) Success
(c) Failure
(d) Achievement
(e) Dream

Q2.(a) effected
(b) affected
(c) drowned
(d) sank
(e) shoot up

Q3.(a) completely
(b) thoroughly
(c) selflessly
(d) unfortunately
(e) successfully

Q4.(a) nurse
(b) feed
(c) generate
(d) form
(e) evolve

Q5.(a) truths
(b) hopes
(c) dreams
(d) targets
(e) realities

Q6.(a) failed
(b) targeted
(c) qualified
(d) entered
(e) appeared

Q7.(a) often
(b) completely
(c) barely
(d) fortunately
(e) randomly

Q8.(a) running up
(b) announced
(c) participated
(d) applied
(e) shortlisted

Q9.(a) confused
(b) assaulted
(c) exhausted
(d) devastated
(e) perplexed

Q10.(a) boost
(b) boast
(c) shoot
(d) ruin
(e) shock

Q11.(a) trained
(b) backed
(c) supported
(d) held
(e) utilized

Q12.(a) defined
(b) realized
(c) thought
(d) imagined
(e) fantasized

Q13.(a) cosmopolitan
(b) complete
(c) practical
(d) global
(e) theoretical

Q14.(a) way
(b) chance
(c) exposure
(d) torture
(e) happiness

Q15.(a) best
(b) better
(c) worse
(d) annoying
(e) kind

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