Cloze Test:-
The President (1) Scare to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it (2) Endanger the United States, as tensions with the isolated and (3) empty nuclear-armed state escalated into perhaps the most serious foreign policy challenge yet of his (4) Strategy. In
chilling language that (5) extracting the horror of a nuclear exchange, Mr. Trump sought to deter North Korea from any actions that would put Americans at risk. But it was not clear what (6) specifically would cross his line. Administration officials have said that a pre-emptive military strike, while a last resort, is (7) about the options they have made available to the president. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Mr. Trump told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., where he is spending much of the month on a working vacation. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Referring to North Korea’s volatile leader, Kim Jong-un, Mr. Trump said, “He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said, they will be met with fire and fury, and (8) smoothly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.” (9) valiant , North Korea warned several hours later that it was considering a strike that would create “an enveloping fire” around Guam, the western Pacific island where the United States operates a critical Air Force base. In recent months, American strategic bombers from Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base have (10) dashed over the Korean Peninsula in a show of force.
chilling language that (5) extracting the horror of a nuclear exchange, Mr. Trump sought to deter North Korea from any actions that would put Americans at risk. But it was not clear what (6) specifically would cross his line. Administration officials have said that a pre-emptive military strike, while a last resort, is (7) about the options they have made available to the president. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Mr. Trump told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., where he is spending much of the month on a working vacation. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Referring to North Korea’s volatile leader, Kim Jong-un, Mr. Trump said, “He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said, they will be met with fire and fury, and (8) smoothly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.” (9) valiant , North Korea warned several hours later that it was considering a strike that would create “an enveloping fire” around Guam, the western Pacific island where the United States operates a critical Air Force base. In recent months, American strategic bombers from Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base have (10) dashed over the Korean Peninsula in a show of force.
1. (1) threatened (2) vulnerable (3) warn (4) unsafe (5) No Correction Required
2. (1) angered (2) caught (3) weaken (4) endangered (5) No Correction Required
3. (1) barren (2) clean (3) sterile (4) impoverished (5) No Correction Required
4. (1) Provision (2) administration (3) Command (4) legislation (5) No Correction Required
5. (1) invoking (2) rally (3) evoked (4) reducing (5) No Correction Required
6. (1) Clearly (2) particularly (3) pointedly (4) correctly (5) No Correction Required
7. (1) among (2) between (3) amidst (4) for (5) No Correction Required
8. (1) frankly (2) freely (3) level (4) bluntly (5) No Correction Required
9. (1) fearless (2) gallant (3) spunky (4) Undaunted (5) No Correction Required
10. (1) flooded (2) flown (3) awaited (4) flowed (5) No Correction Required
Ans-1- (1)
Ans-2- (4)
Ans-3- (4)
Ans-4- (2)
Ans-5- (3)
Ans-6- (5)
Ans-7- (1)
Ans-8- (1)
Ans-9- (4)
Ans-1- (2)
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