Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is an English Language Quiz based on Cloze Test.
When I stand in ___1___
of a painting or sculpture ___2___ a long time and ___3___ my eyes constantly receive
the painting. Music, and the perception of abstraction in it, does not work
that way. A line of music once sung is ___4___, but is still alive in my mind. The
faculty of hearing completes its work very quickly. The voice is both a natural
instrument and the vehicle of this abstraction. There is no external transfer
of the mind’s abstraction, ___5___ does the music emanate from an external
source. This gives the voice a personal nature that makes it different from any
instrument. This may be the reason why, in India’s artistic traditions, the
voice has been regarded as music’s ___6___ vehicle. The musician or the
listener never sees the physical seat of this instrument, the voice box. All ___7___
sees is the movement of the lips, mouth and tongue. ___8___, the music that is
born from it conveys an emotion that ___9___ true in the listener’s or
musician’s own being. While music from the voice is very ___10___, it does not
speak automatically to everyone.
of a painting or sculpture ___2___ a long time and ___3___ my eyes constantly receive
the painting. Music, and the perception of abstraction in it, does not work
that way. A line of music once sung is ___4___, but is still alive in my mind. The
faculty of hearing completes its work very quickly. The voice is both a natural
instrument and the vehicle of this abstraction. There is no external transfer
of the mind’s abstraction, ___5___ does the music emanate from an external
source. This gives the voice a personal nature that makes it different from any
instrument. This may be the reason why, in India’s artistic traditions, the
voice has been regarded as music’s ___6___ vehicle. The musician or the
listener never sees the physical seat of this instrument, the voice box. All ___7___
sees is the movement of the lips, mouth and tongue. ___8___, the music that is
born from it conveys an emotion that ___9___ true in the listener’s or
musician’s own being. While music from the voice is very ___10___, it does not
speak automatically to everyone.
1. (a) front (b) lack (c) lieu (d) view (e) avert
2. (a) since (b) from (c) for (d) fix (e) erect
3. (a) let (b) dim (c) tired (d) affluence (e) besiege
4. (a) brutal (b) joyous (c) adjure (d) sweet (e) gone
5. (a) Elongate (b) neither (c) impolite (d) Hiatus (e)
ineffable
ineffable
6. (a) Sedulous (b) prime (c) innocuous (d) insolent (e)
uncontrolled
uncontrolled
7. (a) in (b) rebellious (c) aloof (d) one (e) sacred
8. (a) Even (b) then (c) yet (d) when (e) still
9. (a) preserves (b) feasible (c) rings (d) conceives (e)
lacking
lacking
10. (a) miraculous (b) obeisance (c) indigenous (d) intimate
(e) freakish
(e) freakish
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