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Welcome to DayTodayGK’s IBPS Clerk Express. This post is related to testing your skills in English.

Directions (Que 1 to 10) In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each number five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case:

We are in the first decade of the new millennium. In the first decade of the last century, sanitation was a difficult affair in village. The people were not ____(1)____ to do anything themselves. ____(2)____ the field labourers were not ready to do their own scavenging. But our people did not ____(3)_____ heart easily. They ____(4)____ their energies on _____(5)_____ a village ideally clean.

1.
a) prepared
b) asked
c) tempted
d) engaged
e) reluctant

2.
a) exceptionally
b) only
c) because
d) even
e) although

3.
a) lend
b) console
c) lose
d) give
e) treat

4.
a) developed
b) conserved
c) dispensed
d) wasted
e) concentrated

5.
a) washing
b) making
c) disinfecting
d) demonstrating
e) spotting

Cloze Test

Mohammed Emwazi, who _____1______ in a series of gory propaganda videos _____2_______ the beheading of foreign journalists and aid workers last year, was targeted in the Isis stronghold of Raqqa last night. There has been no official _____3______ of his death but a senior US military official told Fox News: “We are 99 per cent sure we got him.” The Pentagon has ______4_______ the air strike but said it would not formally announce the result until it had been fully _______5________.

1.
a) acted
b) appeared
c) covered
d) emancipated

2.
a) acting
b) showing
c) recording
d) justifying

3.
a) Affirmation
b) Confirmation
c) Justification
d) Citation

4.
a) assured
b) decided
c) concluded
d) confirmed

5.
a) searched
b) completed
c) assessed
d) joined