New Pattern Cloze Test Questions With Solution: Daily Visit
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After eight years of aggressive ……(3) , developed
economies are emerging from
an ……(4) deleveraging phase that naturally
suppressed growth from the demand side. As the level
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and ……(5) of debt has been shifted, deleveraging
pressures have been reduced, allowing for
a ……(6) global expansion.
Still, in time, the primary determinant of GDP growth
– and the ……(7) of growth patterns – will be gains in
1. 1) modify, alter
2) output, return
8. 1) create, fabricate asset purchases, from €60 billion ($71 billion) to €30
2) retraining, comprehensive billion, beginning in January 2018.The motivation
3) incentive, inducement behind normalization does not appear to be the
4) overall , exception eurozone’s inflation performance, which continues
to (2) the target of roughly 2% by an uncomfortable
Answer & Explanation margin. Inflation expectations, while inching up
recently, also appear anchored well below target,
Answer – 2) despite recent (3) confidence readings. And the ECB’s
Explanation: retraining and comprehensive is own forecast suggests that it does not (4) that price
suitable pair of words as per given paragraph growth will breach 2% anytime soon.
and have similar meaning which means teach What about the output gap? In step with the US
(someone) new skills to enable them to do a Federal Reserve, the ECB (5) its growth forecasts
different job. higher. In that setting, R-star (the natural rate of
interest) may be perceived as (6) up, in line with
9. 1) configuration, structure output moving closer to (7) across a broad swath of
2) skewed, twisted eurozone economies.Still, OECD estimates of the
3) inspiration, fillip 2017 (and 2018) output gap for most of the eurozone
4) prefabricate, process countries (Germany and Ireland are notable
4) undershoot 3) be surprised
5) pliable 4) consensus
5)abide
Answer & Explanation
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 4)
Explanation:undershoot – (of an aircraft) land Answer – 1)
short of (the runway). Explanation:drifting – be carried slowly by a
current of air or water.
3. 1) pliant
2) separated 7. 1) partition
3) soaring 2) doubt
4) yielding 3) potential
5)prevailing 4) gratify
5) privilege
Answer & Explanation
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
4. 1) authoritativeness 8. 1) inevitability
2) outrageousness 2) knuckle
3) credence 3) bidding
4) dogmatism 4) belittle
5) No correction required. 5) No correction required.
Answer – 5) Answer – 5)
Explanation: No correction required. Explanation: No correction required.
5. 1) staunchness 9. 1) accede
2) referred 2) disunity
3) intemperance 3) forbear
4) assent 4) distinguish
5) No correction required. 5) No correction required.
7. 1) spurn Answer – 1)
2) diverse Explanation:commitments – the state or
3) parallel quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity,
4) rebellion etc.
5) No correction required.
Although the European Union is in the midst of an
Answer & Explanation economic recovery, long-term unemployment –
joblessness and job-seeking that lasts at least a year –
Answer – 2) (1) stubbornly high in many of the countries that were
Explanation: diverse – showing a great deal hardest hit by the 2008 financial crisis and its
of variety; very different. aftermath. Unfortunately, the European Commission’s
proposals for addressing the problem are in many
8. 1) sabotage cases (2) .
2) dissension Europe needs far more (3) labor-market policies to
3) vulnerable spur job creation and reduce long-term
4) bulwark unemployment, which can be particularly (4) for
society. As we have seen, unemployment has been an
5) No correction required. important factor in the rise of populist parties that are
we are going to restore trust in our political system. Answer & Explanation
Those who are willing and able to work deserve
support so that they do not end up permanently Answer – 2)
excluded from opportunities to do so. Explanation: destabilizing – upset the
stability of (a region or system); cause unrest
1. 1) endure or instability in.
2) abide
3) shatterable 5. 1) cohesion
4) remains 2) uncreative
5) cease 3) fracturable
4) erraticism
Answer & Explanation 5) encapsulate
4. 1) customary 8. 1) outcome
2) destabilizing 2) despair
3) traditional 3) prune
4) incongruity
5) crumbly
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Answer – 2) 1. 1) snowy
Explanation: occurrence – an incident or 2) ambition
event. 3) tarnished
4) fortify
In October 1997, when global leaders gathered in Oslo 5) contend
to strategize how to end child labor, we brought a
huge (1) and a deep commitment to change. Through Answer & Explanation
improved collaboration and planning, we sought to
protect children from (2) , and to develop ―new Answer – 2)
strategies to eliminate child labor at the national, Explanation: ambition – a strong desire to do
regional, and international levels.‖ or achieve something.
Now, 20 years later, it is time to ask: how have we
done? 2. 1) foster
Poorly. Since that first meeting, the world has not 2) cherish
even halved the number of children in the workforce.
3) garrison
In the last five years, the international community has 4) exploitation
managed to reduce the number of employed children 5) smudged
by just 16 million, the slowest pace of (3) in decades.
Of the 152 million children working today, some 73
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5) reduction 7. 1) conversing
2) modesty
Answer & Explanation 3) avert
Answer – 5) 4) witnessing
5) virtue 8. 1) consulting
2) deliberating
Answer & Explanation 3) bulwark
4) perverted
Answer – 1) 5) proliferation
Explanation: hazardous – risky; dangerous.
Answer & Explanation
5. 1) diffidence
2) humility Answer – 4)
3) immaculate Explanation: perverted – (of a person or their
actions) characterized by sexually abnormal
4) hedging and unacceptable practices or tendencies.
5) disturbing 9. 1) decorum
2) espouse
Answer & Explanation 3) entrench
Answer – 5) 4) vulnerable
Explanation: disturbing – causing anxiety;
worrying. 5) suspension
Answer & Explanation well, and it is a vision in line with the spirit of Korea’s
―candlelight revolution‖ that lit and heated up the
Answer – 4) winter in Korea a year ago. Korea and ASEAN share a
Explanation: vulnerable – exposed to the common philosophy that values people, and that
possibility of being attacked or harmed, either shared (10) will set the path that Korea and ASEAN
physically or emotionally. take together in the years and decades ahead.
Answer – 1) Answer – 3)
Explanation: delighted – feeling or showing
Explanation: conflict – a serious great pleasure.
4) staunch 3) inclusive
5) constant 4) autograph
5) persistent
Answer & Explanation
Answer & Explanation
Answer – 3)
Explanation: undoubtedly – without doubt; Answer – 3)
certainly. Explanation: inclusive – including all the
services or items normally expected or
5. 1) thwarted required.
2) perennial
3) thrilled 9. 1) enchanté
4) roughly 2) superscribe
5) ecstatic 3) impotent
4) longstanding
Answer & Explanation 5) validate
3. 1) placid
Answer & Explanation
2) wringing
Answer – 2) 3) exhilaration
Explanation: resembling – have a similar 4) convenience
appearance to or qualities in common with 5) brute
(someone or something); look or seem like.
Answer & Explanation
7. 1) meek
Answer – 5)
2) coziness Explanation: brute – a savagely violent man
or animal.
3) representative
4) convergence Booms and busts in international capital flows and
5) curiosity commodity prices, as well as the vagaries of
international interest rates, have long been associated
Answer & Explanation with economic crises, especially – but not (1)
spread in emerging markets. The ―type‖ of crisis
Answer – 4) varies by time and place. Sometimes the ―sudden
Explanation: convergence – the process or stop‖ in capital inflows sparks a currency crash,
state of converging. sometimes a banking crisis, and quite often
the (8) discredit are consistently higher than what has Answer – 3)
materialized to date. This is the case of the missing Explanation: prospect – the possibility or
defaults. likelihood of some future event occurring.
A caveat, as our study highlights, is that there is a
potential mismeasurement of the ―true‖ incidence of 4. 1) affects
default, which we cannot begin to quantify at this time 2) effects
– namely, defaults or (9) scrapped arrears on Chinese
loans. China’s lending to many emerging markets, 3) broadcasts
most notably commodity producers, rose significantly
during the last boom. While most of this lending is 4) concedes
from official Chinese sources, much of it is 5) No correction required.
not (10) reflected in the World Bank data, and
unknown amounts may well be in default or Answer & Explanation
protracted arrears.
Answer – 1)
1. 1) exclusively Explanation: affects – have an effect on;
2) stretched make a difference to.
3) swelled
6. 1) sidestep Answer – 2)
2) circumvent Explanation: external – belonging to or
3) pursuance forming the outer surface or structure of
4) administration something.
5) obsession
10. 1) enforcement
Answer & Explanation 2) literary
3) behest
Answer – 5) 4) direction
Explanation: obsession – the state of being 5) asphyxiate
obsessed with someone or something.
Answer & Explanation
7. 1) bidding
2) commanding Answer – 1)
3) execution Explanation: enforcement – the act of
4) administering compelling observance of or compliance with
5) implementation a law, rule, or obligation.
Answer & Explanation When I left India for graduate school in the United
States in 1975, the word ―globalization‖ was not in
Answer – 1) use anywhere in the world. Back then, crossing
Explanation: bidding – the offering of borders was still a big deal, and getting a US visa was
no easy feat. When I did arrive in America, to be an
Indian still carried a whiff of the (1) and the
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unfamiliar. Answer – 2)
Nowadays, globalization is (2) . Over the course of Explanation: exotic – originating in or
less than three decades, trade barriers came down, and characteristic of a distant foreign country.
the combination of accessible airplane travel, satellite
television, and the Internet has created a kind of 2. 1) quotidian
interconnected ―global village.‖ But two types 2) humdrum
of (3) are now casting doubt on globalization’s future. 3) grindstone
The 2008 economic crisis seems to have been the 4) inescapable
turning point in public (4) . In the years leading up to 5) needless
the crisis, millions of people rose out of poverty, and
democracy became more widespread than ever, Answer & Explanation
creating the general sense that a golden age had
begun. Francis Fukuyama famously argued that in the Answer – 4)
grand global struggle over the future of human Explanation: inescapable – unable to be
political and economic organization, the forces of avoided or denied.
democracy and liberal capitalism had won a definitive
victory. 3. 1) avertible
Then crisis (5) , and the hubris of that era was 2) escapable
3) accustomed Answer – 1)
4) typical Explanation: perception – the ability to see,
5) prevailing hear, or become aware of something through
the senses.
Answer & Explanation
5. 1) contemplate
2) exertion
3) struck
4) servitude Answer – 4)
5) obscure Explanation: disparity – a great difference.
6. 1) conjecture 5) kaput
3) indistinct Answer – 3)
4) drudgery Explanation: robust – strong and healthy;
5) fuzzy vigorous.
7. 1) prohibited Answer – 3)
Answer – 3) Answer – 5)
Explanation: integrated – (of an institution, Explanation: traditionally – as part of a long-
body, etc.) desegregated, especially racially. established custom, practice, or belief;
typically.
7. 1) accession
2) torpor Since the Agrarian Revolution, technological progress
3) withdrawal has always fueled opposing forces of diffusion and
4) distinguish concentration. Diffusion (1) as old powers
5) queer and (2) corrode; concentration occurs as the power
and reach of those who control new capabilities
Answer & Explanation expands. The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution
will be no exception in this regard.
Answer – 1) Already, the tension between (3) and concentration
Explanation: accession – the attainment or is (4) at all levels of the economy. Throughout the
acquisition of a position of rank or power. 1990s and early 2000s, trade grew twice as fast as
GDP, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
8. 1) prominent Thanks to the globalization of capital and knowledge,
2) eminent countries were able to shift resources to more
Answer – 3) Answer – 1)
Explanation: occurs – happen; take place. Explanation: parallel – (of lines, planes, or
surfaces) side by side and having the same
2. 1) antique distance continuously between them.
2) escape
3) privileges 6. 1) concentration
4) convergence 2) disperse
5) assign 3) frivolity
4) massing
Answer & Explanation 5) coalescing
4. 1) delegate 8. 1) consolidation
2) intensifying 2) flocking
3) inconstancy 3) flippancy
4) congregation 4) average
5) converging 5) abscond
Answer – 2) Answer – 4)
Explanation: intensifying – become or make Explanation: average – a number expressing
more intense. the central or typical value in a set of data, in
particular the mode, median, or (most
5. 1) parallel commonly) the mean, which is calculated by
2) whimsicality dividing the sum of the values in the set by
3) crooked their number.
4) concern
5) centering 9. 1) decades
2) times
Answer & Explanation 3) decamp
5. 1) sideswipe to Answer – 3)
2) evaluation for Explanation: pathogenic
3) appraisal of
4) preview of 7. 1) defiant
5) assessment for 2) susceptible
3) resistant
Answer & Explanation 4) contrary
5) rebellious
Answer – 4)
Explanation: preview of Answer & Explanation
WASHINGTON, DC – Mark Twain never actually (something) as being larger, better, or worse
said ―Reports of my death have been greatly (1) .‖ But than it really is.
the misquote is too delicious to die a natural death of
its own. And nowhere is the idea behind it 2. 1) reduce
more (2) than in discussions of the dollar’s 2) slacken
international role. 3) subside
Pundits have been saying last rites for the dollar’s 4) relevant
global (3) since the 1960s – that is, for more than a 5) retrench
half-century now. The point can be shown by (4) of
the phrase ―demise of the dollar‖ in all English- Answer & Explanation
language publications catalogued by Google.
The frequency of such mentions, adjusted for the Answer – 4)
number of printed pages per year, first jumped in Explanation: relevant – closely connected or
1969, following the (5) of the London Gold Pool, an appropriate to what is being done or
arrangement in which eight central banks cooperated considered.
to support the dollar’s peg to gold. Use of the
phrase (6) in the 1970s, following the collapse of the 3. 1) recede
Bretton Woods system, of which the dollar was the 2) garbage
Answer – 1)
8. 1) dewdrop
2) driblet
3) speck
4) endured
5) unassuming
Answer – 4)
Explanation: endured – suffer (something
painful or difficult) patiently.
9. 1) dominant
2) molecule
3) disjoint
4) interpose
5) modest