Cloze test -The Hindu Newspaper

International football, as the historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote of sport in the early periods of the 20th century, ___(1)__ be an “expression of national conflict, and the sportsmen representing their nation or their state, primarily __(2)___ of their imagined community.” There is more than a kernel of truth to this even today, so much so that a win on the field can occasionally even represent a geopolitical victory of __(3)__. But football’s potential for change goes further than simple concerns over soft international power, exemplified best perhaps _(4)_ the protests of a group of Iranian women who unfurled banners in the arena in St. Petersburg during their country’s match against Morocco. They were protesting the ban in Iran on women watching the sport at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. In the months before the World Cup, an all-women reggae band “Abjeez” had even called on Iranian men to _(5)_ their support to the movement: “The empty seat by your side is my place. To have me by your side is your right. It’s my right! Consider me a part of you. I am your equal,” the song’s opening lyrics read.

1. (a) can
(b) will
(c) can be
(d) will be

2. (a) faces
(b) expressions
(c) airs
(d) tones

3. (a) forms
(b) kinds
(c) people
(d) sorts

4. (a) to
(b) for
(c) over
(d) by

5. (a) take
(b) lend
(c) grant
(d) remove

Answers:- Cloze Test -

1.C
1.B
3.D
4.D
5.B