Cloze Test
45 NDA English previous year questions (PYQs) from 5 papers, 2017 to 2024, with answers and worked solutions.
About this chapter
- Difficulty: 32 easy · 13 moderate.
- Most-asked subtopic: Word Selection in Passage (45).
- Updated 18 May 2026.
- Set · 10 questionsDirections for the following 10 (ten) items : Each of the following items in this section has a sentence with a blank space and four words or groups of words given after the sentence. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q1Moderate
#1Word Selection in Passage
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q2Moderate
#2Word Selection in Passage
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- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q4Moderate
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- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q9Moderate
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- Set · 10 questionsDirections : In the following passage, at certain points you are given a choice of four words marked (a), (b), (c) and (d), one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word out of the four. Mark the letter, viz., (a), (b), (c) or (d), relating to this word on your Answer Sheet. Examples K and L have been solved for you. Passage: After this incident I went to Nainital, and returned after nearly a month. I had [21] taken [22] my clothes when I saw Gangu standing [23] a new baby. He was [24] with joy. Even Nanda [25] not have [26] such joy [27] getting Krishna. His face had the same [28] that [29] on the face of a [30] man after a full meal.
- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q21Moderate
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- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q25Moderate
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- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q27Moderate
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- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q30Moderate
#20Word Selection in Passage
- Set · 5 questionsDirections : In the following passage there are some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The honeybee is a very unusual kind of insect. ______ other insects which live alone, the honeybee lives as a/an ______ of a community. These bees live together in what is known as a bee ______. The head of the bees is called the queen bee. She is ______ than the rest of the bees. Her main task is to ______ eggs.
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- Set · 10 questionsDirections : In this section, there is a passage having some blank spaces, each blank space is followed by four individual words or group of words. Select a word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for filling the blank space, and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The Earth's climate is __________ changing and evolving. Some of __________ changes have been due to natural causes but others can be attributed to __________ activities such as deforestation, emissions from industry and transport, etc., which have led to the __________ of gases and aerosols in __________ atmosphere. These gases are known as greenhouse gases because they trap heat and __________ air temperatures near the ground, acting like a greenhouse on the surface of the __________ to create and strengthen the scientific and analytical capacity __________ assessment of climate change in the country, different studies under Climate Change Action Programme __________ . Many important bilateral and multilateral meetings and negotiations are held __________ regular intervals.
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- NDA · Apr 2024 · Q11Moderate
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- NDA · Apr 2024 · Q14Moderate
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- Set · 10 questionsDirections : In this section, there is a passage that has some blank spaces, each with four words or group of words. Select whichever word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Most of our food comes from agriculture, so we tend to believe that it is ________ of natural biota. This is not true. In nature, ________ plants and animals ________ to the rigours of natural selection. Only the fittest survive. ________ wild populations have numerous traits for competitiveness, resistance to parasites, ________ to adverse conditions, ________ other aspects of vigour. In contrast, populations grown for many ________ under the pampered conditions of agriculture tend to lose these traits, because they ________ for production, not resilience. For example, a high-producing plant ________ lacks resistance to drought ________ and the resistance to drought is ignored. Also, in the process of breeding plants for maximum production, all genetic variation is eliminated.
- NDA · Sep 2024 · Q6Moderate
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- NDA · Sep 2024 · Q13Moderate
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#44Word Selection in Passage
- NDA · Sep 2024 · Q15Moderate
#45Word Selection in Passage