SSC Quiz | English Knowledge | 13 - 07 - 17

Cloze Test

Technology has (1) humanity to extend its (2) to scales of reality that our (3) could have never imagined. (4) more advanced telescopes are allowing us to see the birth (5) of the (6) and the formation of the very first large (7) objects. In (8), ever more advanced microscopes are allowing us to (9) the very structure of all normal matter. It seems like (10) are in a race to see who can see further and deeper faster, and there may not be an “end” or “bottom” in either direction.

1. (a) prohibited (b) allowed (c) broken (d) damaged

2. (a) vision (b) sight (c) opinion (d) imagination

3. (a) teachers (b) fathers (c) ancestors (d) doctors

4. (a) if (b) never (c) though (d) ever

5. (a) pains (b) pangs (c) hungry (d) cry

6. (a) universe (b) world (c) state (d) planets

7. (a) measure (b) scale (c) criterion (d) limestone 

8. (a) general (b) instance (c) contrast (d) eagerness

9. (a) look (b) see (c) watch (d) grasp 

10. (a) forefather (b) ancestors (c) engineers (d) scientists

Ans.1 (b) allowed

Ans.2 (a) vision

Ans.3 (c) ancestors

Ans.4 (d) Ever

Ans.5 (b) pangs

Ans.6 (a) universe 

Ans.7 (b) scale

Ans.8 (c) contrast

Ans.9 (b) see

Ans.10 (d) scientists