Cloze Test For SBI PO Set : 21

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

Our scientific spirit must be shocked not only by the (1) of fabulous (2) and (3) poverty, but also by those of intense holiness and (4) superstition. In our relations with one another, we have (5) to apply scientific and social wisdom. The failure is (6) large (7) our society. Some social (8) like untouchability are (9) simply because the spirit in us is oppressed by the force of (10) These are practised by (11) kindly persons, who have ceased to feel and whose understanding is (12) any tradition. There are millions in our country today who use scientific (13) and yet (14) superstition as mystical revelation and adhere to absured social customs. (15) the name of tradition.

1. (a) phenomenon

(b) contrasts

(c) existence

(d) comparison

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 (c) existence

2. (a) property

(b) prosperity

(c) resources

(d) wealth

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 (c) resources

3. (a) common

(b) rampant

(c) groveling

(d) growing

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 (d) growing

4. (a) religious

(b) blind

(c) popular

(d) prevailing

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 (d) prevailing

5. (a) attempted

(b) refused

(c) succeeded

(d) failed

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  (d) failed

6. (a) writ

(b) written

(c) wrought

(d) wrapped

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  (a) writ

7. (a) in

(b) on

(c) among

(d) for

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 (b) on 

8. (a) abuses

(b) ceremonies

(c) function

(d) obligations

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  (a) abuses

9. (a) allowed

(b) approved

(c) tolerated

(d) resisted

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 (c) tolerated

10. (a) opinion

(b) habit

(c) society

(d) custom

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(b) habit

11. (a) fairly

(b) very

(c) otherwise

(d) somewhat

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 (b) very

12. (a) stupefied

(b) sanctified

(c) subsidized

(d) substantiated

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13. (a) discoveries

(b) devices

(c) apparatus

(d) machines

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(b) devices

14. (a) consider

(b) decry

(c) declare

(d) revere

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  (a) consider

15. (a) on

(b) for

(c) in

(d) with

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  (c) in