Cloze Test is something in which you have to fill the blanks with the appropriate words. The Options are given below to the passage. Read the passage carefully before answering. This is one of the easy scoring zones in English.

By all accounts, the talks between Mr. Thapa and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who is known for her diplomatic ____1____ in the neighbourhood, took off on the right note. Two short-term objectives — of ending the pile-up of trucks at the border in Bihar that Nepal terms an unofficial ___2____, and of bringing the new Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, to Delhi for talks — could soon be reached. In the longer term, the task for the government is to help Nepal build on its Constitution to _____3_____ the anger of the people of the Terai, without India further antagonising the people of the hills. This is a balance the government seems not to have achieved in the past few months; it has come across instead as a bully to one side of the Nepali ____4_____ and a champion to the other. If India must have a role in the constitutional ____5_____, it must be that of uniting the political spectrum and encouraging talks — a role it has traditionally had since 1951. The visit by Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar in the last minute to try and ____6____ the Nepal leadership to postpone the promulgation of the Constitution, and conversations in New Delhi that seemed to favour Sushil Koirala over Mr. Oli as the new Prime Minister, didn’t help the ____7____. It was sad to see crowds in Kathmandu that only last year filled the roads to greet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now burning ____8____ and the tricolor. While such anger was _____9_____, as India’s wish has only been to push for a more inclusive foundational document for Nepal, it is necessary to undo the ____10_____ that New Delhi is interfering in the neighbour’s internal processes, and worse, ‘punishing’ Nepal for not acceding to its wishes.

1.
a) Capabilities
b) Talks
c) Achievements
d) Abilities

2.
a) Announcement
b) Rival
c) Blockade
d) Release

3.
a) Attenuate
b) Assuage
c) Diminish
d) Allay

4.
a) Area
b) Divide
c) Frontier
d) Border

5.
a) Conflict
b) Support
c) Fight
d) Comfort

6.
a) Talk
b) Stifle
c) Convince
d) Indulge

7.
a) Matter
b) Situation
c) Specification
d) Preception

8.
a) Effigies
b) Assays
c) Charcoal
d) Vehicles

9.
a) Expected
b) Unjustified
c) Normal
d) Controllable

10.
a) Perception
b) Utilization
c) Conversation
d) Visualization

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