Saturday, October 24, 2015

SSC Competitive Exams – General English (Cloze Test)

It may be better to consider the effects of a large scale exchange of weapons which is (1) in the context to current nuclear (2) : Within a million of a second after a nuclear weapons is (3). enough energy is released to head the surrounding air to tons of millions of degrees Celsius, forming a hot (4) bubble of gases or a fireball. There is also a very intense (5) pulse which appears as a (6) flesh of light lasting for few seconds. As the fireball rises, it spread out to form the (7) mushroom cloud and its (8) creates strong (9) at the ground level. This updraft containing dust, smoke and radioactivity created by the (10) forms the stem of the mushroom cloud.




1. 
(A) praiseworthy
(B) specious
(C) plausible 
(D) possible

2.
(A) stockpiles
(B) hoards
(C) storage
(D) inventories

3.
(A) struck
(B) inventories
(C) detonated
(D) burnt

4.
(A) light
(B) buoyant
(C) scalding
(D) cheerful

5. 
(A) hot
(B) warm
(C) boiling
(D) thermal

6.
(A) streaking
(B) thick
(C) bright
(D) brilliant

7.
(A) peculiar
(B) strange
(C) distinctive
(D) overpowering

8.
(A) ascent
(B) increase
(C) growth
(D) expansion

9.
(A) friction
(B) suction
(C) absorption
(D) gases

10.
(A) mass
(B) explosion
(C) agitation
(D) gases

Answers Key:
1.  (C)
2.  (A)
3.  (C)
4.  (B)
5.  (D) 
6.  (A)
7.  (A) 
8.  (D)
9.  (D)
10. (D)

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