Cloze Test For SBI PO : Set 27

Cloze Test For SBI PO : Set 27

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

The world’s climate has always changed and species have evolved accordingly to survive it. The surprising fact about the (1) between evolution and global warming (2) that it is not liner. (3) temperatures alone are not (4) of evolution. Evolution is also the (5) of seasonal changes. As the environment (6) those species which don’t adapt (7) to exist. But the sheer (8) of manmade climate change today is (9). ‘Bad things are happening’ and by one (10) global warning could threaten upto one-third of the world’s species if left unchecked. In fact a lot of the species which will be able to survive are the ones we consider pests like insects and weeds.

1. (a) difference

(b) similarity

(c) argument

(d) relationship

(e) alliance

2. (a) being

(b) seems

(c) mainly

(d) besides

(e) is

3. (a) However

(b) Mounted

(c) Rising

(d) Elevating

(e) Inclining

4. (a) means

(b) triggers

(c) responses

(d) threats

(e) stimulus

5. (a) results

(b) precursor

(c) resistance

(d) cause

(e) provocation

6. (a) conserves

(b) stifles

(c) predicts

(d) changes

(e) emerges

7. (a) continue

(b) halt

(c) cease

(d) terminate

(e) discontinue

8. (a) luck

(b) value

(c) collapse

(d) pace

(e) attention

9. (a) threatened

(b) pursued

(c) unprecedented

(d) record

(e) debated

10. (a) forecast

(b) chance

(c) pattern

(d) occasion

(e) imagination