Cloze Test — Practice

Question 1

Cloze: 'The vaccine drive ___ millions of lives during the pandemic.'
(a) rescued  (b) saved  (c) spared  (d) recovered

Accepted Answer

Collocation + context: campaigns 'save lives' — the fixed pair.

(a) rescue = physically remove from danger; (c) spare = refrain from harming; (d) recover = get back.

Answer: (b) saved.

Question 2

Cloze: 'The committee approved the budget; ___, it flagged concerns about the timeline.'
(a) therefore  (b) however  (c) similarly  (d) hence

Accepted Answer

Side A approves, side B raises concerns — opposite directions → contrast connector.

Answer: (b) however.

Question 3

Cloze: '___ repeated warnings, tourists continued to feed the monkeys.'
(a) Although  (b) Despite  (c) Even  (d) However

Accepted Answer

The blank is followed by a NOUN PHRASE ('repeated warnings'), not a clause → despite.

(Although would need 'although they were warned…'.)

Answer: (b) Despite.

Question 4

Cloze (from a passage praising a literacy scheme): 'The programme has had a ___ impact on rural enrolment.'
(a) marginal  (b) profound  (c) doubtful  (d) modest

Accepted Answer

The passage's tone is celebratory; the blank describes its impact → strong positive.

(a), (c), (d) are grammatical but tonally wrong.

Answer: (b) profound.

Question 5

Cloze: 'The new policy is expected to ___ the gap between urban and rural healthcare.'
(a) connect  (b) bridge  (c) join  (d) repair

Accepted Answer

Fixed pair: 'bridge the gap'. The other options are synonyms of joining that do not collocate with 'gap'.

Answer: (b) bridge.

Question 6

Cloze: 'Scientists ___ the site since 2015, and their findings keep rewriting early Indian history.'
(a) excavate  (b) excavated  (c) have been excavating  (d) will excavate

Accepted Answer

'Since 2015' + action continuing into the present ('keep rewriting') → present perfect continuous.

Answer: (c) have been excavating.

Question 7

Cloze: 'Monsoon rains failed for the third straight year; ___, the state has begun rationing reservoir water.'
(a) nevertheless  (b) consequently  (c) meanwhile  (d) conversely

Accepted Answer

Side B (rationing) is the RESULT of side A (failed rains) → cause-effect connector.

Answer: (b) consequently.

Question 8

Cloze: 'Early reviews of the film were ___(1)___. ___(2)___, ticket sales collapsed within a week.'
Which pairing fills both blanks consistently?
(a) 1: glowing, 2: Predictably  (b) 1: scathing, 2: Predictably  (c) 1: glowing, 2: Consequently  (d) 1: scathing, 2: Surprisingly

Accepted Answer

The blanks interlock: a collapse after SCATHING reviews is the expected outcome → 'Predictably'.

(a) and (c): after glowing reviews a collapse is NOT predictable/consequent; (d): after scathing reviews a collapse is not surprising.

Answer: (b). Cloze blanks constrain each other — solve them as a system, not one at a time.

Question 9

Cloze: 'Fraud complaints have risen ___ with the growth in digital transactions.'
(a) in vain  (b) in tandem  (c) at odds  (d) in place

Accepted Answer

'In tandem with' = together with / at the same rate — the fixed pair for parallel growth.

Answer: (b) in tandem.

Question 10

Cloze: 'The minister ___ the allegations as politically motivated.'
(a) refused  (b) denied  (c) dismissed  (d) declined

Accepted Answer

'Dismissed X as Y' is the collocating structure for rejecting with a characterisation.

(Refuse/decline take offers or requests; deny takes the allegation itself but not the 'as…' frame.)

Answer: (c) dismissed.

Practice — Cloze Test

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