Important Cloze Passage Questions with Answers For SSC GD
Directions (Q. Nos. 1-10)
In each of the following passages, there are blanks and each blank has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Passage 1
A food chain is a…… (1) between plants and animals. It starts with a plant. The next part of the link is a plant eater. When the prairie plants were uprooted, the animals that……(2) on them lost their food source. So, while the farmers…… (3) more food for people, they broke the animals’ food chain. For example, if a bird needs…… (4) to eat and the plant is gone, that bird will not be able to…… (5). And the animals that ate that bird won‘t have any food, either.
1. Question
(a) link
(b) source
(c) base
(d) chain
2. Question
(a) lived
(b) relied
(c) cook
(d) depended
3. Question
(a) created
(b) cooked
(c) produced
(d) sold
4. Question
(a) flowers
(b) fruits
(c) seeds
(d) roots
5. Question
(a) live
(b) chirp
(c) fly
(d) survive
Passage 2
……(6) figured out how the Earth changes. Earth orbits the Sun once each year. It travels once around the Sun every 365 days. The other eight planets in our solar system also ……(7) around the Sun. All travel in a pattern called an ……(8) , which is a kind of oval. So, at times Earth is ……(9) from the Sun. Scientists figured out that made it cooler on Earth then. But they also figured out that it is the tilt of the Earth‘s axis, however, that has the greatest effect on……(10).
6. Question
(a) Doctors
(b) Scientists
(c) Astronauts
(d) Teachers
7. Question
(a) play
(b) travel
(c) orbit
(d) circle
8. Question
(a) circle
(b) ellipse
(c) eclipse
(d) movement
9. Question
(a) farther
(b) closer
(c) in front
(d) opposite
10. Question
(a) atmosphere
(b) size
(c) temperatures
(d) movement
Directions : (Q. Nos. 11-20)
In the following passages, there are blanks and each blank has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Passage 3
Today there are cell phones. They do not need…… (11). They use signals that travel…… (12) the air. Some people now do not have a land line any more. They just use their cell phone. It can connect people. It can ……(13) music from the Internet. Some people even use their computers to talk ……(14) other people. Those are the latest changes. So, the telephone is still ……(15).
11. Question
(a) receivers
(b) wires
(c) operators
(d) connections
12. Question
(a) from
(b) of
(c) by
(d) through
13. Question
(a) listen
(b) upgrade
(c) download
(d) broadcast
14. Question
(a) with
(b) to
(c) against
(d) from
15. Question
(a) upgrading
(b) modifying
(c) downloading
(d) changing
Passage 4
There is a fable about the ant and the grasshopper. The grasshopper played all summer while the ant ……(16). The ant got ready for winter. The ant was a hard worker. It dug a hole to stay in ……(17) winter. It carried food to that hole. When winter came, the ant was able to live. The grasshopper did not have any food. It had no place to stay. Winter was a great ……(18) for the grasshopper. It asked the ant for help. The ant was ……(19). The ant did help the grasshopper. The grasshopper learned a lesson. So did everyone who read the ……(20).
16. Question
(a) toiled
(b) relaxed
(c) died
(d) teased
17. Question
(a) between
(b) around
(c) during
(d) the
18. Question
(a) risk
(b) challenge
(c) joy
(d) adventure
19. Question
(a) cruel
(b) giant
(c) generous
(d) miser
20. Question
(a) lesson
(b) fable
(c) poem
(d) letter
Directions (Q. Nos. 21-25)
In the following passages, some words have been left out. Find out the suitable word from the options to fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the passage meaningfully complete.
Passage 5
India is an agricultural country. Most of the people live in villages and are ……(21). They grow cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits. The farmers lead a ……(22) life. They get up early in the morning and go to the fields. They stay and work on the farm late till evening. The farmers usually live in kuchcha houses. Though, they work hard they ……(23) poor. Farmers eat simple food; wear simple clothes and rear animals like cows, buffaloes and oxen. ……(24) them there would be no cereals for us to eat. They play a/an ……(25) role in the growth and economy of a country.
21. Question
(a) farmers
(b) businessmen
(c) politicians
(d) doctors
22. Question
(a) tough
(b) prosperous
(c) easy
(d) bad
23. Question
(a) become
(b) live
(c) remain
(d) die
24. Question
(a) with
(b) without
(c) by
(d) from
25. Question
(a) devastating
(b) mean
(c) lovely
(d) important
