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CLOZE TEST

A lot of ink has been ______ (1)______ over what has been described as a suffocating ______ (2) _______ of intolerance in India. The ‘intolerance’ bug has followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the way to the U.K., with 200 writers, including the likes of Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, writing an open letter to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, _____ (3)_____ him to raise the issue with Mr. Modi.
1.
a) Shared
b) Spilled
c) Collected
d) Given

2.
a) Zone
b) Area
c) Atmosphere
d) Arena

3.
a) Pressurizing
b) Forcing
c) Demanding
d) Urging

‘Intolerance’ in this context has come to serve as a _______(4)______ for the unending series of, to borrow Mr. Modi’s words, “_______ (5)_______ incidents” — the murder of M.M. Kalburgi; of Mohammad Akhlaq; of a Toyota showroom employee, Yakub Shaikh; the repeated petrol bomb attacks on Kashmiri truck drivers; the burning of two Dalit children in Sunpedh. And this is just a partial _____ (6) _____ of one kind of intolerant behaviour.

4.
a) Mediator
b) Shorthand
c) Stop Point
d) Resisting factor

5.
a) Fortunate
b) Blissful
c) Unfortunate
d) Tolerable

6.
a) Introduction
b) Disclosure
c) Enumeration
d) Classification

SENTENCE REARRANGEMENT

A. In seeking a solution to the outstanding issues, appointing yet another committee to look into the grievances will amount to nothing but a travesty.

B. It is a serious anomaly that goes against the post-Kargil military reforms that have helped bring down the average age of field commanders.

C. An army may march on its stomach, but for the force at large, izzat (dignity) has been a highly held ideal as well.

D. Among other aspects, the latest OROP notification issued by the government goes against the spirit of encouraging younger officers by allowing premature retirement.

E. In a country that boasts one of the world’s largest military forces that operates on the principle of voluntary enlistment, the government should try to resolve the current stand-off over the One Rank One Pension (OROP) issue with a realisation of this fact.

F. Some of the responses heard from various quarters of the government so far do not indicate they appreciate that.