Cloze Test For SBI PO : Set 19

Fill up the blanks in the passage given be most appropriate word from the options given for each blanks:

Although John Wisdom’s writings in Philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgentstein, they nevertheless also display a (1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom (3) He is unique kind of genius in Philosophy.This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom’s repeated attempts to (4) the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is (5) interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel (6) to utter such strange sentence e.g. “Time is unreal”, “There are no material things”, etc. According to Wisdom such sentences are both false (and perhaps meaningless) and year. (7) Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the ‘The rapeutic conception of Philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where the emphasises that analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress (8) them with other kinds of problems.The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller (9) with Wisdom’s thought is referred to his famous article ‘gods’ in Philosophy and Psycho-analysis. Other Minds is most (10) discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.

1. (a) concise

(b) virtual

(c) marked

(d) limited

(e) relative

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(c) marked

2. (a) individuality

(b) novelty

(c) originality

(d) complexity

(e) creativity

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(d) complexity

3. (a) unprofitable

(b) useful

(c) advantageous

(d) unreliable

(e) durable

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(a) unprofitable

4. (a) jettison

(b) delimit

(c) augment

(d) fortify

(e) explore

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(e) explore

5. (a) admirably

(b) primarily

(c) advertently

(d) reluctantly

(e) happily

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(b) primarily

6. (a) depressed

(b) confined

(c) alluded

(d) compelled

(e) adapted

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(b) confined

7. (a) illuminating

(b) damaging

(c) confusing

(d) critical

(e) unreliable

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(a) illuminating

8. (a) compelling

(b) associating

(c) contrasting

(d) describing

(e) advocating

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(b) associating

9. (a) comparison

(b) analysis

(c) agreement

(d) elaboration

(e) acquaintance

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(e) acquaintance

10. (a) projected

(b) sustained

(c) prolonged

(d) prolific

(e) attributed

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(b) sustained