Cloze Test Directions (1-5): In the following passage, some o | English MCQs & Quizzes

Cloze Test

Directions (1-5): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.

Taken out of context, Chagnon might have been (1) ……his own experience studying the Yanomamö people. He faced a monumental task in the South American fieldwork he began in 1964. The Yanomamö language was (2) ……rich, the conditions dangerous.

Yet in studying the Yanomamö, Chagnon elected to conduct not only traditional ethnographic research, but also complex quantitative research. Besides bringing in a shotgun to deal with predators, Chagnon also (3) …… solar-powered computers to his remote research site when they became available.

But Chagnon, in that February 2009 email, wasn’t talking about his own work. He was advising me about mine.

I was trying, as a historian of science, to understand the culture in which Chagnon lived: academic anthropology. Specifically, I was trying to figure out why the American Anthropological Association had put Chagnon on trial from 2001 to 2002 over charges made by the self-styled “anthropological journalist” Patrick Tierney.

In the email he signed “Shaki” — the name the Yanomamö had given him, translating roughly to “pesky bee” — I don’t think Chagnon was suggesting he found me unqualified or potentially lacking in fortitude. I think he was (4) ……acknowledging the challenges I faced.

Much had happened before and after Tierney had first publicly accused Chagnon and the late geneticist James Neel of high crimes and misdemeanors in a New Yorker article published in October 2000. That article (5) ……the book that would emerge soon after, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (Norton).

1) Taken out of context, Chagnon might have been (1) ……his own experience studying the Yanomamö people.

A) extensive

B) describing

C) unpropitious

D) offset

E) None of these

2) The Yanomamö language was (2) ……rich, the conditions dangerous.

A) metaphorically

B) counterpoise

C) determinant

D) prohibitively

E) None of these

3) Besides bringing in a shotgun to deal with predators, Chagnon also (3) ……solar-powered computers to his remote research site when they became available.

A) entail

B) presuppose

C) misinterpretation

D) lugged

E) None of these

4) I think he was (4) ……acknowledging the challenges I faced.

A) scruple

B) fidelity

C) nebulous

D) explicit

E) None of these

5) That article (5) ……the book that would emerge soon after, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (Norton).

A) excerpted

B) gainsay

C) aver

D) misgiving

E) None of these

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