New Pattern Cloze Test Quiz IBPS PO 2017 : Set-27

New Pattern Cloze Test Quiz IBPS PO 2017

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Q.( 1-10 )In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

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Over the past half century the United States and other economically advanced countries have made the shift into what has been called an information society, the information age, or the post-industrial era. The futurist Alvin Toffler has labelled this …1…( innovation) the Third Wave suggesting that it will ultimately be as …2…(consequential) as the two previous waves in human history :from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies, and from agricultural to industrial ones.

A society …3… (raised) around information tends to produce more of the two things people value most in a modern democracy – freedom and equality. Freedom of choice has exploded, in everything from cable channels to low-cost shopping outlets to friends met on the Internet. Hierarchies of all sorts, political and corporate, have come under pressure and begun to …4…( mix).

People associate the information age with the …5…( collapse) of the Internet, in the 1990s but the shift from the industrial era started more than a generation earlier, with the de-industrialization of the Rust Belt in the United States and comparable movements away from manufacturing in other industrialized countries. This period, roughly the mid-1960s to the early 1990s was also marked by seriously …6…(changing) social conditions in most of the industrialized world. Crime and social disorder began to rise, making inner-city areas of the wealthiest societies on earth almost uninhabitable. The decline of kinship as a social institution, which has been going on for more than 200 years, accelerated sharply in the second half of the twentieth century.

Marriages and births declined and divorce …7…( bloomed); and one out of every three children in the United States and more than half of all children in Scandinavia were born out of wedlock. Finally, trust and confidence in institutions went into a forty-year decline. Although a majority of people in the United States and Europe …8…( proved)  confidence in their governments and fellow citizens during the late 1950s only a small minority did so by the early 1990s. The nature of peoples …9…(involvement) with one another changed as well – although there is no evidence that people associated with one another less, their ties tended to be …10…(more) permanent, looser, and with smaller groups of people.

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1.Select option for answer-

A. revolution
B. event
C. transition
D. action
E. no improvement required

2.Select option for answer-

A. fruitless
B. futile
C. old
D. wide
E. no improvement required

3.Select option for answer-

A. revolved
B. manufactured
C. mined
D. built
E. no improvement required

4.Select option for answer-

A. disassemble
B. crumble
C. breakdown
D. erase
E. no improvement required

5.Select option for answer-

A. age
B. popularity
C. advent
D. effect
E. no improvement required

6.Select option for answer-

A. improving
B. damaged
C. vanishing
D. deteriorating
E. no improvement required

7.Select option for answer-

A. shot
B. zoomed
C. soared
D. raised
E. no improvement required

8.Select option for answer-

A. voted
B. expressed
C. promoted
D. ushered
E. no improvement required

9.Select option for answer-

A. Abated
B. vanishing
C. oppress
D. stagnant
E. no improvement required

10.Select option for answer-

A. excel
B. affect
C. conquer
D. overcome
E. no improvement required

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