CLOZE COMPOSITION
Directions: In this section, there is a passage having some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
It is necessary ____(81)____ any war, to consider, not its proper justification in past agreements, ____(82)____ its real justification in the balance of good which it is to bring to mankind. At the beginning of a war, each nation, under the influence of what is called ____(83)____ believes that its own victory is ____(84)____ certain and of great importance to mankind. The praiseworthiness of this belief has become an accepted maxim of common sense: even when war is actually in progress it ____(85)____ to be natural and right that a citizen of an enemy country should regard the victory of his side as assured and highly ____(86)____ concentrating attention upon the supposed advantages of the victory of our own side, we ____(87)____ more or less blind to the evils inseparable from war and equally certain whichever side may ultimately prove ____(88)____ Yet so long as these are not fully realized, it is impossible ____(89)____ justly ____(90)____ a war is or is not likely to be beneficial to the human race. Although the theme is trite, it is necessary therefore briefly to remind ourselves what the evils of war really are.
81.
(a) in regard to
(b) connecting
(c) describing
(d) linking
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82.
(a) and
(b) until
(c) but
(d) unless
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83.
(a) disloyalty
(b) patriotism
(c) infidelity
(d) falseness,
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84.
(a) nationally
(b) individuall
(c) autonomously
(d) both
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85.
(a) is held
(b) has been withheld
(c) was held
(d) had been withheld
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86.
(a) unpleasant.
(b) unlikely.
(c) desirable.
(d) malignant.
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87.
(a) becoming
(b) become
(c) had become
(d) have been becoming
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88.
(a) successful.
(b) thriving.
(c) victorious.
(d) failing.
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89.
(a) to judge
(b) to be judged
(c) to judging
(d) having judged
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90.
(a) whether
(b) therefore
(c) however
(d) since
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PREPOSITIONS AND DETERMINERS
Directions: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four options. Select whichever preposition or determiner you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
91. Steve has gone away. He will be away ________ Monday.
(a) on
(b) by
(c) until
(d) from
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92. I’ll see you ________ Friday morning.
(a) in
(b) on
(c) along
(d) at
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93. Write your name ________ the top of the page.
(a) at
(b) in
(c) by
(d) with
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94. Sohan is studying ________ the university.
(a) in
(b) at
(c) on
(d) from
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95. He is indebted ________ his friend.
(a) from
(b) with
(c) by
(d) to
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96. Can I be held responsible ______ my spouse’s debts?
(a) for
(b) to
(c) by
(d) with
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97. It was fun to hang out ________ the pier.
(a) down
(b) with
(c) in
(d) beneath
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98. Can you pass ________ sugar, please?
(a) a
(b) an
(c) the
(d) No article
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99. Our train leaves from ________ number 5.
(a) a
(b) an
(c) the
(d) No article
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100. ________ children learn very quickly.
(a) Some
(b) A
(c) Any
(d) Much
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