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Sanctum English 10 Points to keep in mind while solvinga cloze Test:-

1. Read the passage before looking for options. Try to get the main idea of thepassage.

2. Read the sentence, get the meaning, think of the possible word, then look foroptions and don’t finalize any answer before reaching to the last option. Forexample – in option 1, you feel answer can be either B or C. keep both theoptions, once you reach the last option, you’ll have more clarity to answer. Don’thurry.

3. Give extra 3 seconds for every answer. Just to be sure about it.

4. Check if the required word has to be a verb, adjective or a noun. Choose thecorrect form of the word. Noun – singular or plural. Verb – check tense.

5. Look for hints in the passage. Many a time one or two answers are available inthe passage itself.

6. In case of and, but, or — look for parallelism.

7. Solving more number of Cloze Tests doesn’t improve your score, readingmore number of pages does. Read.

8. Cloze test – is a test of grammar & basic words usages. It’s not about vocab. Ifyou’re familiar with newspaper vocab, cloze tests are easy.

9. Use English to English Dictionary. Follow Oxford it possible. Always look forexamples of the word you are looking for.

10. Work on increasing your reading speed. That will give you more time tothink.




2nd JanThe HinduFeeling torn between _______(1)_______disciplines is the best possible thing. It is amark of genuine liveliness and curiosity. Tothose of you who don’t feel _______(2)_______between incompatible things — those whoknow what you love and are monogamousabout it, it is worth ______(3)________ tocultivate a disciplinary field that is quitedifferent from, even incompatible with fromyour primary interest. Contra-disciplinarityis the best model of liberal artscienceeducation. It is also its exciting future. Dualmajors such as Computer Science andEnglish, or Music and Computer Science —as those piloted by Stanford in 2014 —_______(4)______ high models of contra-disciplinary education. Philosophy andPhysics might form a similar pair, as old asit is new, a timeless classic. Their sharedinterest in explaining the universe is splitbetween the natural, the human, and thespiritual. Between concrete reality throughthe senses and larger patterns that appearas ________(5)______. Experience and dataon one hand and theory on the other.

1. (a) desperate (b) discreet(c) distraught (d) disparate

2. (a) born (b) left(c) torn (d) happy

3. (a) trying (b) having tried(c) to have tried (d) try

4. (a) embed (b) embody(c) epitome (d) enjoy

5. (a) abject (b) abjure(c) abstruse (d) abstract

3rd JanThe HinduStudents should always look_______(1)______ classroom lessons to_______(2)______ additional knowledge thatcan give them an edge over others in the jobmarket, said Genpact executive K.Satyanarayana Chowdhary. He wasaddressing a session attended by MBAstudents of Sri Venkateswara Institute ofScience and Information Technology (VISIT)at Tadepalligudem. Alumni of the collegehimself, Mr. Chowdhary shared his personalexperiences while he was a student of thiscollege. He said he made use of everypossible opportunity that came his way to_________(3)_________ his academic as well

as communication skills, with the activesupport of the then Head of the MBADepartment Satya Prakash. He saidparticipation in programmes like PalleSrujana of the National InnovationFoundation and Chinna Shodha Yatra wasa turning point in his life. It helped remove_______(4)______ in him and connect topeople around in a confident way andultimately helped him a great_______(5)________ in the job market inHyderabad. College principal G.V. Rajupresided over the session. Head of the MBAdepartment K.V. Satya Prakash and facultymembers B. Giri Babu, N. Venkat and K.Vinod Varma shared their experiences.

1. (a) beyond (b) further(c) over (d) after

2. (a) get (b) grasp(c) gaining (d) add

3. (a) hone (b) refining(c) shone (d) sharp

4. (a) exceptions (d) expositions(c) inhibitions (d) eschews

5. (a) day (b) deal(c) distance (d) delay

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4th JanThe HinduThe ‘World Food India’ conference in Delhiin November informed us as much aboutthe urban ________(1)_______ in developmentin India _______(2)_______ about thedisregard for public health and naturalagriculture. ‘PepsiCo Leads Rs. 68,000Crore plans for Food Sector’ read one mediaheadline during the conference. Hundredsof corporations _______(3)________ food,indiscriminate consumption of whichcreates digestive disorders, hypertension,heart disease, diabetes and even cancer.Processed and packaged food can beespecially challenging to our health as thesealso contain, in addition to chemicals likefertilizers, pesticides and herbicides,excessive amounts of sugar, salt and oil.Our government would _______(4)_______food to these corporations fully if left tothemselves, instead of establishingecosystems for family farmers to grow foodwithout chemicals and undertaking thehard work of pushing and incentivisingpeasants to _______(5)_____ their productionfrom wheat and rice to a range of rapidlydisappearing traditional foods (like millets)and more lentils, fruits and vegetables.

1. (a) bias (b) fiasco(c) glitch (d) role

2. (a) in (b) as(c) for (d) to

3. (a) tender (b) mend(c) vend (d) vein

4. (a) distribute (b) allocate(c) outsource (d) assign

5. (a) verify (b) purify(c) diversity (d) justify

5th JanThe HinduA gardener tending to his garden looked atthe collection of rose plants and said tothem, “If you did not have thorns, youwould be so much more beautiful to look_______(1)________.” He looked at the grassgrowing on the ground and sorrowfully saidto the grass, “If ______(2)_______ did not limityou, this garden would be lush.” The rosebushes and the grass responded in unison,“If you, my dear gardener, saw________(3)_________ of your own faults, youwould be happy.” Very often, I tend to lookat what is going wrong in my life, thecorrections I need to make, and the faultsthat I have. In doing so, I constantly feelunhappy, dissatisfied, frustrated andunfulfilled. A teacher of mine oncesuggested that I redirect my thoughts tolook at all which is good about me, that Ican be proud of, and that I_______(4)_________ in myself. If I focus myattention on such aspects, he said, I wouldbe more at peace and receptive, rejoice insmall gains and not ________(5)_______ asmuch. He sang an old song for me, thatcontinues to ring in my ears. The song was,‘Que sera sera, whatever will be will be,’ asong originally made popular by ConnieFrancis.

1. (a) at (b) for(c) after (d) on

2. (a) needs (b) weeds(c) breeds (d) species

3. (a) more (b) lesser(c) less (d) worse

4. (a) see (b) value(c) talk (d) look

5. (a) treat (b) fret(c) skirmish (d) stare






6th JanThe HinduWhile Jawaharlal Nehru advised the U.S.,the then Soviet Union, and other big powersto _______(1)________ force and work towardsdisarmament, he was himself faced with adilemma in 1961: whether or not to useforce to ________(2)________ Goa. It was anagonising decision for a person who adoptedthe Gandhian approach in internationalaffairs. After Britain and France left India, itwas expected that Portugal would leave too.But Portugal _______(3)_________.Emphasising that it had been in Goa forcenturies, Portugal said that the GoanCatholics would not be safe if it left.Portugal conveniently overlooked the factover 60% of Goans were Hindus, and manyGoan Christians, like the editor FrankMoraes, had a place of honour in Indianpublic life. Compared to only two lakhCatholics in Goa, there were five millionCatholics _________(4)_______ peacefully insecular India. Geography, language andnationality bound the people of India withthe people of Goa. It was _______(5)_______that Goa, which had seen a long indigenousfreedom movement, should be a part ofIndia.

1. (a) abnegate (b) abject(c) abjure (d) perjury

2. (a) get (b) liberate(c) save (d) dictate

3. (a) declined (b) rejected(c) refused (d) relinquished

4. (a) lived (b) living(c) have lived (d) had lived

5. (a) true (b) right(c) necessary (d) natural

8th JanThe HinduThe Finance Ministry’s _______(1)________ topotential investors in bitcoin and othercryptocurrencies has come at a time when anew, seemingly attractive investment areahas opened up that few have enoughinformation about. The price of bitcoin, themost popular of all cryptocurrencies, notonly shot up by well over 1000% over thecourse of the last year but also fluctuated_______(2)__________. One of the mainreasons for this volatility is_______(3)________ and the entry into themarket of a large number of people lured bythe prospect of quick and easy profits. Thegovernment’s caution comes on top of threewarnings issued by the Reserve Bank ofIndia since 2013. Investment in bitcoin andother cryptocurrencies increasedtremendously in India over the past year,but most new users know close to nothingof the technology, or how to______(4)________ the genuineness of aparticular cryptocurrency. A number ofinvestors, daunted by the high price ofbitcoin, have put their money into less well-established and often _______(5)_______cryptocurrencies, only to lose it all. Evensome private cryptocurrency operators inIndia have gone on record saying that asmany as 90% of the currencies are scams.

1. (a) warning (b) warned(c) has warned (d) warn

2. (a) widely (b) wildly(c) vehemently (d) weirdly

3. (a) stimulation (b) stipulation(c) speculation (d) specification

4. (a) deny (b) decide(c) verify (d) scrutiny

5. (a) farcical (b) farce(c) facetious (d) spurious






9th JanThe HinduEx-smokers take ________(1)_____. Tomatoesand other fruits such as apples may helpreduce the damage caused by tobacco. Astudy by researchers at a public healthinstitute in the United States found that thenatural decline in lung function was sloweramong former smokers who had a diet richin fruits, ________(2)_______ tomatoes andapples. The researchers at the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,who published the results of the study inthe European Respiratory Journal recently,followed the study participants for 10 years.Studies in the past have shown thatlycopene, a phytonutrient ________(3)_______in tomatoes, can boost lung health. Theresearchers found that adults who, on anaverage, ate more than two tomatoes ormore than three portions of fresh fruit a dayhad a slower decline in lung functioncompared with those who ate less than onetomato or less than one portion of fruit aday, respectively. The protective effect was________(4)______ only in fresh fruit andvegetables, not in processed foodpreparations. “This study shows that dietmight help repair lung damage in peoplewho have stopped smoking. It also suggeststhat a diet rich in fruits can slow down thelung’s natural ageing process even if youhave never smoked,” said Vanessa Garcia-Larsen, assistant professor in theBloomberg School’s Department ofInternational Health and the study’s leadauthor. “The findings support the need fordietary recommendations, especially forpeople at risk of developing respiratorydiseases such as COPD [chronic obstructivepulmonary disease].”

1. (a) notice (b) heart(c) attention (d) care

2. (a) such (b) likewise(c) especially (d) for

3. (a) scarce (b) scant(c) abundant (d) adamant

4. (a) targeted (b) observed(c) understood (d) termed

5. (a) processed (b) protected(c) prepared (d) frozen

10th JanThe HinduUff! The alarm is at it again! The devil neverlets me sleep. I send the accursed thing intoa ‘snooze’, along with myself, slip my handsunderneath my head again and cuddle upunder my bundle of joy, the blanket. Ahwinters! Don’t they have their own unique_______(1)______? I always _______(2)______out ‘monsoon’ whenever someone asks mefor my favourite season, but am alwaystempted to change sides when winter_______(3)_______. The bliss of oversleepingcuddled up under a warm and cozy blanketis just other-worldly. The mind says “comeon, get up and study”, but somehow thebody refuses to cooperate, enjoying theblissful warmth underneath the blanket.Even a toe _______(4)_________ out ispromptly put inside. You look outside thewindow. It’s a clear cold morning. You see a_______(5)_______ of fog hanging low,suspended over the fresh green grass. Yousomehow force yourself out of your bundleof joy and get ready, with cardigans andcute furry socks and hand-mittens. You canfeel the howling wind slicing the air. You’retempted to eat the breeze or the cottonysnow, but only if it was not this cold. Youcatch up on a hot cuppa, in the meagrebalmy sunlight and feel like doing nothing,just hanging around, like the fog itself.

1. (a) style (b) charm(c) quality (d) design

2. (a) blur (b) burnt(c) blurt (d) burp

3. (a) comes (b) came(c) has come (d) had come

4. (a) seeping (b) peeping(c) zipping (d) tweeping

5. (a) certain (b) curtain(c) absolute (d) curtail






11th JanBusiness LineNot too long ago, everyone feared Microsoftwas taking over the world. Anti-trustofficials were taking it to court, and wethought everyone will be working forMicrosoft one day. Well, it is_______(1)________ Amazon. Starting as anon-line book store in 1995, Amazon now is amarket place for anything and everything. It______(2)________ about 40,000 people at itsheadquarters in Seattle, and some 450,000in its businesses around the world. It ownsa major newspaper, The Washington Post,which takes strong _______(3)__________positions on major issues. It also ownsWhole Foods Market, a grocery storefocused on health, natural and organicfoods. Other businesses the company is ininclude: Cloud services, publishing andeven film-making. End of last year, Amazoncreated a _______(4)_______ by announcingthat it wanted a second headquarters andwould be spending about $20 billion (about

1,30,000 crore) over a 20-year period onthe project. The company called for bidsfrom towns who were willing to host thecompany by satisfying some preconditions:it needed to be a metro area of more thanone million population, availability ofsoftware and other technical talent, goodtransportation, recreational facilities, and________(5)________.1. (a) again (b) now

(c) with (d) the2. (a) employs (b) deploys

(c) provides (d) caters3. (a) conservative (b) conservation

(c) liberation (d) liberal4. (a) roars (b) chaotic

(c) stir (d) stare5. (a) so so (b) do so

(c) so on (d) so along

12th JanThe HinduA team of chemists led by an Indian - originresearcher at The Scripps ResearchInstitute (TSRI) have developed a fascinatingnew theory for how life on Earth_________(1)________. The experimentsdemonstrate that key chemical reactionsthat support life today could have beencarried out with ingredients likely______(2)_______ on the planet four billionyears ago. “This was a black box for us. Butif you focus on the chemistry, the questionsof origins of life become less________(3)________,” said RamanarayananKrishnamurthy, Associate Professor ofChemistry at TSRI and senior author._______(4)_______ the study, described in thejournal Nature Communications,Krishnamurthy and his co-authors focusedon a series of chemical reactions that makeup what researchers refer to as the citricacid cycle. Every aerobic organism, fromflamingoes to fungi, relies on the citric acidcycle to release stored energy in cells. Inprevious studies, researchers imagined earlylife using the same molecules for the citricacid cycle as life uses today.

1. (a) Had begun (b) might begun(c) may have begun (d) could hadbegun

2. (a) exist (b) existence(c) exited (d) present

3. (a) daunting (b) dauntless(c) challenged (d) easy

4. (a) with (b) at(c) to (d) for

5. (a) to release (b) releasing(c) to be released (d) to havereleased






13th JanThe HinduEnamoured of television, media-watchers inthe 1940s and ’50s confidently prophesiedthe ________(1)_____ death of radio. Themedium, they said, couldn’t match the_______(2)_____ of seeing moving pictures inthe comfort of the living room. The advent ofrock-and-roll, embodying the rebellion of anentire generation of youth against theconservatism of the preceding decades, lefta bigger following for radio than before andproved the predictions of the doomsayers_______(3)_______. In the decades since,radio has emerged as the ultimate survivor,adapting itself to the tastes of the newergenerations of listeners and _______(4)______newer technologies. In the 1980s and ’90s,it saw off threats posed by personal videorecorders and digital compact discs througha greater emphasis on listener-drivenprogrammes. By the late ‘90s and early2000s, radio stations were reinventingthemselves to cater _______(5)______ nicheaudiences: There were stations dedicated tospecific genres of content — talk radio,punk rock stations, even stations thatplayed music by a single band 24 hours aday — anticipating the emergence of Spotifyand iTunes by a decade or more.

1. (a) eminent (b) imminent(c) prominent (d) accidental

2. (a) pace (b) demand(c) thrill (d) need

3. (a) right (b) wrong(c) innocent (d) guilty

4. (a) abusing (b) absorbing(c) absconding (d) abandoning

5. (a) for (b) to(c) against (d) upon

15th JanThe HinduIt is one of the _________(1)______ of ourmoment in history that at the time when theidea of a secular nation state was takingroot, there was also a raging________(2)________ on the idea of Hinduism,its past and its many presents. Decadeslater, when Hindutva has firmly taken root,the idea of Hinduism and its future inpublic discourse is _________(3)________absent. The 19th century was the age ofreform, revision and of a reinscription ofideas. European nationalism sparked ideasof reform and led to a dynamic if________(4)______ exchange of ideas betweenIndia and the West. Thinkers andideologues from the West, like Annie Besantand Helena Blavatsky, brought_______(5)______ ideas of reform.1. (a) cronies (b) ceremonies

(c) hegemony (d) ironies2. (a) debate (b) issues

(c) condition (d) statement3. (a) rarely (b) hardly

(c) oddly (d) boldly4. (a) daily (b) regular

(c) uneven (d) any5. (a) up (b) out

(c) in (d) forward

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16th JanThe HinduThe last week of last year saw the first fightin my family. It started, as fights these daysoften do, rather _______(1)_______ on socialmedia. My sister-in-law shared a post onFacebook that contained pictures of aseemingly poor man _______(2)______ a nice-looking kurta and talking on his phone bythe side of the road. It sought to_______(3)_______ the public, as it were,about burglars and cheats. I should haveignored it. But being ‘woke’, and a bit tiredof the poor-bashing that constantly seemsto go on around us nowadays, I pointed outthe ridiculousness of assuming that thephone the man was using________(4)________. It wasn’t about that, Iwas informed, it was about pointing out thata beggar was so stylish. So, once again, Ilaunched into a speech about how everyonehas the right to choose what makes themhappy and the charity one shows a beggarshould not come with _________(5)_______attached. Of course, but this is just to warnthe public about the cheats, I was told. Atwhich point, I did what I should have doneright at the beginning, and decided to keepmy opinions to myself. The next morning,my father came into the argument. Thingsescalated.1. (a) conspicuously (b) auspiciously

(c) ominously (d) innocuously2. (a) wearing (b) wore

(c) had wore (d) to wear3. (a) help (b) support

(c) warn (d) cheat4. (a) stolen (b) was stolen

(c) were stolen (d) stole5. (a) things (b) events

(c) judgment (d) strings

17th JanThe HinduA recent global report on socialsecurity could serve as a useful startingpoint to understand the appeal of populism_______(1)_____ the world. The World SocialProtection Report 2017-19 of theInternational Labour Organisation couldalso be viewed as a ______(2)______ for actionby political parties of the _____(3)______. Avast majority of people (4 billion) livewithout any safeguard against the normal________(4)________ of life, according to thestudy. Less than half (45.2%) haveguaranteed access to only one socialprotection benefit in the face of a whole_________(5)_______ of risks such as illhealth, unemployment, occupationalinjuries, disability, and old age. More thanhalf the population in rural areas are notcovered by universal health programmes, ascompared to less than a quarter in urbanlocations. The goal of comprehensivecoverage evidently remains a mere slogan inseveral parts of the world.

1. (a) over (b) across(c) in (d) for

2. (a) blueprint (b) modal(c) lynchpin (d) litany

3. (a) upstream (b) downstream(c) mainstream (d) stream

4. (a) urgencies (b) emergencies(c) contingencies (d) agencies

5. (a) gamut (b) covert(c) starta (d) part

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18th JanThe HinduIt is not usual to think of soils in the contextof climate change. Policy is ______(1)_______focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions from the electricity sector,transport and industry. There has, however,been a renewed interest in understandinghow soils can serve as a sink for carbondioxide since atmospheric concentrations ofcarbon dioxide have crossed 410 parts permillion and oceans are already_______(2)_______ acidic. Besides, increasingsoil carbon offers a range of co-benefits andthis would _______(3)_______ us time beforeother technologies can help us transition toa zero-carbon lifestyle. Significant carbonpools on earth are found in the earth’scrust, oceans, atmosphere and land-basedecosystems. Soils contain roughly 2,344 Gt(1 gigatonne = 1 billion tonnes) of organiccarbon, making this the largest terrestrialpool. Soil organic carbon (SOC)_______(4)________ from plants, animals,microbes, leaves and wood, mostly_______(5)_______ in the first metre or so.There are many conditions and processesthat determine changes to SOC contentincluding temperature, rainfall, vegetation,soil management and land-use change.

1. (a) routinely (b) usually(c) seldom (d) hardly

2. (a) beginning (d) bringing(c) boiling (d) turning

3. (a) cost (b) sell(c) buy (d) bring

4. (a) comes (b) generate(c) dispense (d) goes

5. (a) finding (b) found(c) mining (d) mined

19th JanThe HinduWith a coastline that ______(1)_______ over3000 kilometres, Oman is quite a_______(2)_______, especially in comparisionto its Middle Eastern neighbours. MiddleEastern mythology says that Sinbad theSailor was born in Oman and he_______(3)_______ sail on his legendaryvoyages from Sohar, a _______(4)______ port

in the northern part of the country. On arecent visit, I decided to explore its water-based secrets. Accordingly, I planned toexplore Wadi Saab and Bimmah Sinkhole tolearn more about the country that rightfully________(5)______ itself with the hashtag‘Beauty Has An Address’.1. (a) leads (b) length

(c) extends (d) measured2. (a) evaluation (b) revelation

(c) revolution (d) evolution3. (a) sat (b) set

(c) sit (d) shut4. (a) old (b) remnant

(c) maritime (d) new5. (a) challenges (b) tells

(c) markets (d) targets

20th JanThe HinduThe Supreme Court recently stayed aKarnataka High Court order setting________(1)______ the 2014 amendment rulesto the Cigarettes and Other TobaccoProducts (Prohibition of Advertisement andRegulation of Trade and Commerce,Production, Supply and Distribution) Act,2003 that ______(2)______ tobacco packageshaving pictorial warnings covering 85% ofthe package _______(3)______. This is incontrast to the High Court order that viewedthe 2014 rules violating constitutionalnorms as being an “unreasonablerestriction” on the right to do business and_______(4)_______ a livelihood. The HighCourt also held that there seemed to be noconnection between the images and thewarnings. The Supreme Court observed thatthe “health of a citizen has primacy”.Though this is one approach to bring aboutbehavioural changes towards tobacco use,_______(5)_______ barriers to itsconsumption also calls for appropriatepricing policies, for which taxationmeasures must be at the forefront.

1. (a) in (b) up(c) aside (d) along

2. (a) proscribed (b) prescribed(c) subscribed (d) described

3. (a) space (b) room(c) field (d) place

4. (a) earn (b) earning(c) having earned (d) to earn

5. (a) using (b) placing(c) removing (d) created






22nd JanThe HinduOn a very bright and sunny Saturdaymorning, with prospective exciting events toattend for the day, I _______(1)______ a carfrom an app-based taxi service on ride-share basis. Normally there will be two otherpassengers travelling along with you in afour-seater and since their routes are_______(2)________ to us, we can be assuredof a long ride around the city to drop________(3)________before you reach yours.When the taxi did arrive, I was a little irkedto find two adults along with two children inthe tiny vehicle apart from the driver. I wasa little hesitant. Clearly, the back seat,where I was supposed to sit, was________(4)______. Thankfully, the father ofthe two children picked up one of them andseated her on his lap. The elder one wasbetween me and her dad. The cab movedon. I realised the lady in the front seat waschatty enough and was apparentlynarrating her entire driving torment in thecity to the seemingly nice driver. I sat there,in the back seat, still trying not to squeezethe little girl beside me. Slowly as we rodealong, the kids began talking to their dad intheir native language. Thanks to myexposure in the city, I could make out thecontents of their conversation. The youngerone, around four or five, asked initially whyher mom wasn’t coming with them, to whichhe replied that she was in her office to finishsome urgent work.

1. (a) hire (b) hailed(c) renting (d) brought

2. (a) told (b) matched(c) unknown (d) far

3. (a) the other (b) the others(c) others (d) another

4. (a) denied (d) booked(c) occupied (d) unclean

5. (a) talking (b) narrating(c) describe (d) detailing

23rd JanThe HinduDroughts can kill, but you would imaginethat deep-rooted forest trees – whose roots______(1)_______ into more permanent waterresources – would be the least affected. Buta study now finds that droughts killed treespecies that access deeper water much_______(2)_______. Tree deaths due todroughts are a major threat in bothtemperate and tropical ecosystems. Thiscould _______(3)________ aggravate withclimate change, with droughts predicted toincrease in many parts of the world. In a_______(4)_______ forest, where water isscarce especially in ________(5)_______, howdo different tree species with varying rootdepths deal with such water stresses? Aninter-disciplinary team from institutesincluding Bengaluru’s Indian Institute ofScience (IISc) studied how different speciespartition underground water resources upto a depth of 30 metres (just above thegroundwater table) in Tamil Nadu’sMudumalai National Park.

1. (a) stay (b) dive(c) tap (d) lay

2. (a) better (b) after(c) effectively (d) more

3. (a) later (b) latter(c) further (d) farther

4. (a) judicious (b) deciduous(c) mysterious (d)cantankerous

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24th JanThe Economist

The numbers are stark. Cancer claimed thelives of 8.8m people in 2015; only heartdisease caused more deaths. Around 40% ofAmericans will be told they have cancerduring their lifetimes. It is now a biggerkiller of Africans than malaria. But thestatistics do not begin to ________(1)_______the fear inspired by cancer’s silent and________(2)_________ cellular mutiny. OnlyAlzheimer’s _______(3)________ a similar gripon the imagination. Confronted with thissort of enemy, people understandably focuson the potential for scientific breakthroughsthat will deliver a _______(4)_____. Their hopeis not misplaced. Cancer has_______(5)______ more and more survivableover recent decades owing to a host ofadvances, from genetic sequencing totargeted therapies.

1. (a) capture (b) store(c) collect (d) create

2. (a) steady (b) implacable(c) malleable (d) delectable

3. (a) experts (b) put(c) exerts (d) renders

4. (a) anti-septic (b) anti-biotic(c) cure (d) day

5. (a) become (b) done(c) got (d) been

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When he was running for the presidency,Donald Trump described the agreement thatconstrained Iran’s nuclear ambitions inreturn for the relief of sanctions as “theworst deal ever negotiated”. He has yet tofind a way ________(1)_______ it. But he getsa chance to do so every 90 days—and thenext opportunity is coming up. The IranNuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) of2015 ______(2)______ the administration tocertify to Congress every three months thatIran is verifiably and fully implementing theJoint Comprehensive Plan of Action(JCPOA), as the Iran deal is formally known;that it has not broken agreed limits on itsstockpiles of various nuclear materials; thatit has not taken any action that couldadvance a nuclear-weapons programme;and that continued suspension of nuclear-related sanctions is vital to America’snational security. If the president does notconfirm all this the issue is thrown back toCongress, which after 60 days can vote toreimpose sanctions. Mr Trump firstcertified that Iran was meeting itsobligations in April. When he did so asecond time, in July, he reportedly_______(3)_______ his national-security team,and in particular his secretary of state, RexTillerson, for ________(4)______ to providehim with a case proving Iran’s bad faith.When the next review comes up in OctoberMr Trump will be ________(5)_______ withsuch arguments, however specious. Theadministration will have difficultywithholding certification on the first threegrounds.

1. (a) out of (b) in(c) inside (d) outside

2. (a) guides (b) deters(c) obliges (d) declares

3. (a) lambasted (b) thrash(c) censored (d) prosecuted

4. (a) finding (b) frustrating(c) failing (d) falling

5. (a) fornicated (b) furnished(c) prevaricated (d) prevented






26th DecThe HinduAmerica and Iran are not always atloggerheads. As the two dominant powers inIraq since America’s invasion in 2003 theyhave repeatedly _______(1)_______ theirpolicies to ________(2)_______ the countrytogether. They agreed, for example, thatHaider al-Abadi should emerge as primeminister from the _______(3)_______ ofcoalitions produced by the election of 2014.They have shared the goal of crushing theso-called Islamic State (IS), indirectlycoordinating ground and air campaignsagainst it. And they both want Iraq to bepreserved as a _______(4)_______ state. Thatis why, on September 12th, General QassemSuleimani, the head of the Quds Force,Iran’s foreign legion, Douglas Silliman, theAmerican ambassador to Iraq, and BrettMcGurk, Donald Trump’s envoy to thecoalition againstIS, were all inSulaymaniyah urging Kurdish leaders to________(5)________ the referendum onindependence they have scheduled forSeptember 25th. These shared goals do notmean shared motives.1. (a) aligned (b) maligned

(c) derailed (d) entailed2. (a) secure (b) keep

(c) save (d) make3. (a) gathering (b) group

(c) jumble (d) mumble4. (a) primary (b) secondary

(c) unitary (d) solitary5. (a) deter (b) defer

(c) revoke (d) detain

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27th JanThe HinduIt is very important, Lee Hsien Loong,Singapore’s prime minister, explained lastyear, that all Singaporeans feel they have areal chance of becoming president. To thatend, his government ________(1)________with the eligibility criteria for candidates.Yet Singaporeans primed for a festival ofinclusiveness at this year’s election must be________(2)_________. On September 11th acommittee of senior officials declared thatonly one candidate was eligible to stand,and that the woman in question, HalimahYacob, a former speaker of parliament, wasthus deemed ________(3)_________unopposed. She was sworn in on September14th. Singapore’s democracy can sometimesseem a little ______(4)________: the rulingPeople’s Action Party (PAP) has been inpower since before independence in 1965.So when the government decided to amendthe constitution in 1991 to allow directelections for president, ostensibly to________(5)______ popular engagement withpolitics, observers were suspicious—andrightly so. The criteria for eligibility were setso narrowly that only two of the subsequentfive elections have involved more than onecandidate. Even so in 2011, the PAP’spreferredcandidate came within a whisker of losing.

1. (a) tinkered (b) tweaking(c) tantamount (d) tepid

2. (a) happy (b) confused(c) awarded (d) victimized

3. (a) to elect (b) to be elected(c) to have been elected (d) to haveelected

4. (a) regarded (d) revered(c) regimented (d) registered

5. (a) weaken (b) deepen(c) bolden (d) creating







In recent days government employees acrossChina, from postal officials in the north-eastto tax auditors in the south-west, have been_______(1)_______ into watching statetelevision. The Communist Party oftenorders bureaucrats to study_______(2)________. This time, however, themandatory viewing has ________(3)_______from the usual themes of domestic politicsand economic development. Instead, it hasfocused on China’s emergence as a globalpower, and the role of the president, XiJinping, in bringing this about. In lateAugust and early September the statebroadcaster aired six 45-minuteprogrammes on this topic at peak viewing_______(4)_______. The Chinese title could berendered as “Great-Power Diplomacy”, butsome state media prefer to call it “Major-Country Diplomacy”. That sounds a littlemore modest. Describing China’s growingglobal clout has long been a problem forpropagandists. In 2003 they seemed to havesettled on the term “peaceful rise”, only toabandon it a few months later in favour of“peaceful development”—the word “rise”,they thought, risked ________(5)_______alarm abroad.1. (a) corralled (b) paralleled

(c) drolled (d) trolled2. (a) history (b) demography

(c) propaganda (d) papers3. (a) debarred (b) restrained

(c) deviated (d) attacted4. (a) timings (b) hours

(c) days (d) slots5. (a) causing (b) creating

(c) beating (d) raising

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30th JanThe Hindu

For residents of Macau, a former Portuguesecolony that is now an autonomous region ofChina, Typhoon Hato was striking not justfor the damage it did, but for the help thatcame in its _______(1)_______. After thestorm _______(2)________ the territory in lateAugust, Chinese troops emerged from theirbarracks to help with relief work. It was thearmy’s first deployment on the streets of theterritory since the end of Portuguese rule in1999. Strikingly, the soldiers’ presence was_______(3)_______. In nearby Hong Kong, towhich Macau is due to be linked by a longbridge next year, Chinese troops have notbeen called ______(4)_______ to help the localauthorities since Britain handed theterritory back to China in 1997. Suspicionsof the Chinese army run deep. Annualcommemorations of its crushing of theTiananmen Square protests in Beijing in1989 attract thousands. Not so in Macau,where critics of China have been far lessvocal, and opposition to the localgovernment has also been more muted. Pro-government candidates are expected to dowell in elections for the local assembly onSeptember 17th, despite the authorities’apparent_________(5)_______ in the face ofHato, which flooded the old town and cutpower to much of the territory.

1. (a) territory (b) wake(c) concern (d) crisis

2. (a) astounded (b) rounded(c) pounded (d) surrounded

3. (a) cheered (b) criticized(c) celebrate (d) presented

4. (a) in (c) up(c) for (d) out

5. (a) happiness (b) haplessness(c) understanding (d) role






31st JanThe Economist

The train north from Cairo winds throughthe lush fields and _______(1)_______ canalsof the Nile Delta, before _______(2)_______into Alexandria. The scenery is pleasant ona 180km journey that can ______(3)______ onfor more than four hours. It is slow enoughthat Egypt Air offers flights on the sameroute. Egypt’s state-owned, 6,700km railnetwork, the oldest in Africa, has______(4)_______ better days. Stations are______(5)______; trains are dangerous andoften delayed.1. (a) meandering (b) beautiful

(c) wandering (d) undulated2. (a) obfuscating (b) suffocating

(c) chugging (d) giggling3. (a) brag (b) drag

(c) bring (d) carry4. (a) seen (b) have

(c) needed (d) lived5. (a) Stingy (b) clean

(c) dizzy (d) dingy

Answers:

2nd Jan - DCAAD

3rd Jan - ABACB

4th Jan - ABCCC

5th Jan - ABCBB

6th Jan - CBCBD

8th Jan - ABCCD

9th Jan - BCCBA

10th Jan - BCABB

11th Jan – BADCC

12th Jan – CDADA

13th Jan - BCBBB

15th Jan - DACCD

16th Jan - DACBD

17th Jan - BACCA

18th Jan – BDCAB

19th Jan - CBBCC

20th Jan - CBAAB

22nd Jan - BCBCB

23rd Jan – CDCBB

24th Jan – ABCCA25th Jan – ACACB26th Jan – ABCCB27th Jan – ABCCB

29th Jan – ACCBA

30th Jan - BCADB

31st Jan - ACBAD

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