OT- 88

Cloze test- 1

Time is very precious and must not be wasted on petty matters that have (1)______ value in our lives. People keep money in safes but time (2)______ be saved in this way. Time can be saved and utilized only by being alert, (3)______ it very carefully and being conscious of its passage. People who made the right use of time by not wasting it on worldly (4)______ and spent it on understanding the true nature of life and its purpose have left us with a (5)______ collection of religious books and wise thoughts

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1. nothing/ 2. no/ 3. none/ 4. no one

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1. wasn’t/ 2. can’t/ 3. hadn’t/ 4. wouldn’t

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1. holding/ 2. creating/ 3. treating/ 4. spending

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1. laughter/ 2. subjects/ 3. pleasures/ 4. chances

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1. richer/ 2. richest/ 3. too rich/ 4. rich

Cloze test- 2

A poet visited Tenali Raman hoping to impress him with some poems he had written. Raman asked (6)______ to leave the poems with him and promised to read them (7)______. The man, however, insisted on (8)______ out the poems to him. As the poet droned (9)______ Raman fell asleep. When he woke up, the poet asked: “Sir, shall I read the (10)______ again?"

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1. them/ 2. him/ 3. her/ 4. his

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1. later/ 2. lately/ 3. after/ 4. next

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1. reading/ 2. rehearsing/ 3. recounting/ 4. reciting

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1. in/ 2. out/ 3. on/ 4. up

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1. pages/ 2. rhymes/ 3. poems/ 4. verses