Cloze Test Passage - XII
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 words
New industries supported by foreign interests (1).....offer (2).....salaries to their employees at all levels of responsibility than (3).....locally-owned industries. They need (4).....people and are (5).....to pay high wages to (6).....them. Local industries often (7).....the high salaries offered by foreign-supported industries, arguing that this will (8).....raise all wages to an excessive level. Workers in local industries, seeing the sharp (9)..... in job-pay will agitate for an improvement in their salaries. This eventually will drain the resources and (10).....their profitability.
| 1. | (a) hardly | (b) reluctantly | (c) seldom | (d) never | (e) usually |
| 2. | (a) disproportionate | (b) better | (c) proportionate | (d) comparable | (e) unreasonable |
| 3. | (a) did | (b) could | (c) do | (d) their | (e) does |
| 4. | (a) local | (b) several | (c) more | (d) talented | (e) less |
| 5. | (a) willing | (b) bound | (c) forced | (d) reluctant | (e) authorised |
| 6. | (a) entertain | (b) retain | (c) enrich | (d) hire | (e) bribe |
| 7. | (a) uphold | (b) imitate | (c) protest | (d) pay | (e) accept |
| 8. | (a) hardly | (b) considerably | (c) not | (d) unreasonably | (e) artificially |
| 9. | (a) difference | (b) cut | (c) hike | (d) decrease | (e) injustice |
| 10. | (a) augment | (b) fulfil | (c) enhance | (d) lower | (e) check |
Answers :
(1) (e), (2) (b), (3) (c), (4) (d), (5) (a), (6) (b), (7) (c), (8) (d), (9) (a), (10) (d).