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Cloze Test Quiz-4

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English is an important subject in CTET,DSSSB & Other Teaching Entrance Exams. In any of entrance exam, Cloze Test carries a good weightage of questions. With focused practice good marks can be fetched from this section. These questions are very important in achieving your success in all entrance exams..

Directions (Questions I - 10): In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of four words, marked (a), (b), (c) and (d). One of which fix the meaning in the passage. Choose the best word out of four.

Some scholars, while exploring the forests of America, discovered some buildings that were in ruins. These buildings were ... 1... ruined by encroaching forest. They were remnants of a .. .2... civilization. The scholars got interested. They excavated more and discovered ...3... their utmost surprise the remains of a flourishing got civilization -the Mayas ...4... they named it. Thus, it was in as late as ...5... 19th century that the secrets of a new civilization were ...6... The scholars believed that the Mayans must have ...7... the descendants of ancient Egyptians. The fact remains that even today the Mayan culture is one of.. .8... most fascinating ancient civilizations. This civilization was situated in the ...9... of Middle America. It covered an area equivalent to that of France ...10... spread across some parts of Mexico. The buildings do tell us about the technological advances they had attained.

Q1. Number 1

•  reasonably  
•  surely                       
•  apparently
•  presently

Solution
  apparently

Q2. Number 2 

•  great       
•  new                          
•  old                                     
•  ordinary

Solution
  great     

Q3. Number 3 

•  at 
•  for                                
•  by    
•  to

Solution
to

Q4. Number 4 

•  when                            
•  white
•  then                       
•  as

Solution
  as

Q5. Number 5  

•  the
•   a 
•  an 
•  at

Solution
the

Q6. Number 6 

•  unearthed     
•  unmatched              
•  surprised                
•  unparalleled

Solution
 unearthed   

Q7. Number 7 

•  been                    
•  become                   
•  being
•  seen

Solution
 been                 

Q8. Number 8 

•  a                             
•  several                     
•   the                         
•  many

Solution
  the                       

Q9. Number 9 

•  head              
•  tail                                 
•  body                      
•  heart

Solution
 heart

Q10. Number 10

•  yet                        
•  but                            
•  but also                 
•  and

Solution
 and