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SSC CGL Cloze Test — practice questions

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In a cloze test, a portion of text is masked and the learner must ____ it.Read the answer and worked solution →The word cloze is derived from ____ in Gestalt theory.Read the answer and worked solution →The cloze exercise was first described in 1953 by ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In a cloze exercise, words may be deleted mechanically (every nth word) or ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In "I went to the ____ and bought some milk", the blank must be filled by aRead the answer and worked solution →Words with many synonyms have a ____ word clozability score.Read the answer and worked solution →Glover called cloze tests ____ recall, weaker than free recall but stronger than recognition.Read the answer and worked solution →In language-model training, cloze deletion is known as ____ language modelling.Read the answer and worked solution →English grammar requires most singular countable noun phrases to start with a ____.Read the answer and worked solution →The definite article is not typically used with generic nouns or with ____.Read the answer and worked solution →A newspaper headline may drop articles, so omission is common in signs, labels and ____.Read the answer and worked solution →It was too great ____ loss for the small team to bear.Read the answer and worked solution →He is such ____ idiot!Read the answer and worked solution →Everyone read quite ____ long letter from the principal.Read the answer and worked solution →Both ____ girls arrived early for the practice session.Read the answer and worked solution →We do not have ____ information about the missing file.Read the answer and worked solution →Central determiners such as the, a and some are mutually ____.Read the answer and worked solution →There is some person on the porch implies that the person's identity is ____ to the speaker.Read the answer and worked solution →She bought ____ MP3 player and a HEPA filter.Read the answer and worked solution →The shop sells ____ HEPA filter for dust.Read the answer and worked solution →He lost money on ____ one-armed bandit and left after an hour.Read the answer and worked solution →She waited for ____ hour because the h in hour is silent.Read the answer and worked solution →What was once "an ewt" through juncture loss is now called a ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In Middle English, the sound spelled th was written with the letter ____.Read the answer and worked solution →The old spelling in Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe preserves the word ____.Read the answer and worked solution →The word the accounts for about ____ of all words used in English.Read the answer and worked solution →Of the two forms of the indefinite article, the older one is ____.Read the answer and worked solution →When stressed, the article a is pronounced so that it rhymes with ____.Read the answer and worked solution →Smoking is banned here, but you ____ smoke behind the bicycle shed.Read the answer and worked solution →He did the Ironman in under seven hours? That ____ be true.Read the answer and worked solution →

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In a cloze test, a portion of text is masked and the learner must ____ it.

  1. memorise
  2. translate
  3. underline
  4. fill in
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Correct answer: D. fill in

The participant is asked to fill in the masked portion of text, as the exercise requires.

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The word cloze is derived from ____ in Gestalt theory.

  1. closure
  2. similarity
  3. continuity
  4. proximity
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Correct answer: A. closure

Cloze comes from closure, the Gestalt idea of mentally completing a gap.

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The cloze exercise was first described in 1953 by ____.

  1. Edward Thorndike
  2. Lev Vygotsky
  3. B.F. Skinner
  4. Wilson L. Taylor
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Correct answer: D. Wilson L. Taylor

Wilson L. Taylor described the cloze procedure in 1953.

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