Cloze Test of English for bank exams - set 1

Pulses are truly the pulse of life: for the soil, for people and the planet. In our farms they give life to the soil by providing nitrogen. This is how ancient cultures __1__ their soils. Farming did not begin with the Green Revolution and __2__ nitrogen fertilizers. Whether it is the diversity-based systems of India, or the three sisters planted by the first nations in North America, or the ancient Milpa system of Mexico, beans and pulses were vital to indigenous agro-ecological systems.

As Sir Albert Howard, known as the __3__ of modern agriculture, writes in An Agricultural Testament, comparing agriculture in the West __4__ agriculture in India: “Mixed crops are the rule. In this respect the cultivators of the Orient have followed nature’s method as seen in the primeval forest. Mixed cropping is perhaps _5_ universal when the cereal crop is the main constituent.

1. a) spoiled   b). increased  c). produced  4.  d) enriched

2. a) good  b) Synthetic   c)natural   d) adulterated 

3.  a) Father  b) inventor  c)god        d) brother

4. a) on   b) among      c) with        d) not

5. a) must     b)most      c)very        d)largely 

Answers:

1. d         2.b            3.a         4.c        5.b
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