Cloze Test Questions & Answers

Q1 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). Whilescientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank(a)

Q2 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). Whilescientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank(b)

Q3 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). Whilescientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank(c)

Q4 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). Whilescientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank(d)

Q5 Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.

I do remember it. And I’m grateful. But I can’t help feeling that a woman capable of taking other people’s lives and juggling with them as if they were rubber balls, as she did with ours, is likely at any moment to break out in a new place. So, my gratitude to her is the sort of (1) ______ [hat tip] you would feel toward a cyclone if you were walking home late for dinner and it caught you up and deposited you on your doorstep. Moreover, your Aunt Lora is a human (2) _____[storm]. No, on the whole, she’s more like an earthquake. As she has a habit of splitting up and altering the face of the world whenever she feels like it, and I’m too well satisfied with my world at present to (3) _____[enjoy] the idea of having it changed.

”Little by little the garrison of the studio had been (4) _______ [small slice] down. Except for Steve, the community had no regular members outside the family itself. As Hank was generally out of town. And Bailey paid one more visit, then seemed to consider that he could now absent himself altogether. And the members of Kirk’s bachelor circle stayed away to a man.

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Q6 Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.

I do remember it. And I’m grateful. But I can’t help feeling that a woman capable of taking other people’s lives and juggling with them as if they were rubber balls, as she did with ours, is likely at any moment to break out in a new place. So, my gratitude to her is the sort of (1) ______ [hat tip] you would feel toward a cyclone if you were walking home late for dinner and it caught you up and deposited you on your doorstep. Moreover, your Aunt Lora is a human (2) _____[storm]. No, on the whole, she’s more like an earthquake. As she has a habit of splitting up and altering the face of the world whenever she feels like it, and I’m too well satisfied with my world at present to (3) _____[enjoy] the idea of having it changed.

”Little by little the garrison of the studio had been (4) _______ [small slice] down. Except for Steve, the community had no regular members outside the family itself. As Hank was generally out of town. And Bailey paid one more visit, then seemed to consider that he could now absent himself altogether. And the members of Kirk’s bachelor circle stayed away to a man.


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Q7 Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.

I do remember it. And I’m grateful. But I can’t help feeling that a woman capable of taking other people’s lives and juggling with them as if they were rubber balls, as she did with ours, is likely at any moment to break out in a new place. So, my gratitude to her is the sort of (1) ______ [hat tip] you would feel toward a cyclone if you were walking home late for dinner and it caught you up and deposited you on your doorstep. Moreover, your Aunt Lora is a human (2) _____[storm]. No, on the whole, she’s more like an earthquake. As she has a habit of splitting up and altering the face of the world whenever she feels like it, and I’m too well satisfied with my world at present to (3) _____[enjoy] the idea of having it changed.

”Little by little the garrison of the studio had been (4) _______ [small slice] down. Except for Steve, the community had no regular members outside the family itself. As Hank was generally out of town. And Bailey paid one more visit, then seemed to consider that he could now absent himself altogether. And the members of Kirk’s bachelor circle stayed away to a man.

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Q8 Read the following text and complete it using the words given in the options.

I do remember it. And I’m grateful. But I can’t help feeling that a woman capable of taking other people’s lives and juggling with them as if they were rubber balls, as she did with ours, is likely at any moment to break out in a new place. So, my gratitude to her is the sort of (1) ______ [hat tip] you would feel toward a cyclone if you were walking home late for dinner and it caught you up and deposited you on your doorstep. Moreover, your Aunt Lora is a human (2) _____[storm]. No, on the whole, she’s more like an earthquake. As she has a habit of splitting up and altering the face of the world whenever she feels like it, and I’m too well satisfied with my world at present to (3) _____[enjoy] the idea of having it changed.

”Little by little the garrison of the studio had been (4) _______ [small slice] down. Except for Steve, the community had no regular members outside the family itself. As Hank was generally out of town. And Bailey paid one more visit, then seemed to consider that he could now absent himself altogether. And the members of Kirk’s bachelor circle stayed away to a man.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank 4

Q9 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.

Visual experiences can ___(1)children, teenagers and even adults learn and absorb more due to its highly stimulating and ___(2)engaging impact. It is for this reason that we are seeing an increase in schools across the globe ___(3) content provider programmes into their class curriculum to ___(4) lessons through video.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank 1

Q10 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.

Visual experiences can ___(1)children, teenagers and even adults learn and absorb more due to its highly stimulating and ___(2)engaging impact. It is for this reason that we are seeing an increase in schools across the globe ___(3) content provider programmes into their class curriculum to ___(4) lessons through video.

Find the appropriate word to be filled in blank 2