Practice English Questions for Upcoming Exams 2017 (Cloze Test)

Practice English Questions for Upcoming Exams 2017 (Cloze Test) Set-90:

Dear Readers, we have given here the English Practice Questions for upcoming  Exams 2017. Candidates can use this material for their preparations.

Directions (Q. 1-10):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 meaningful.

Around the world, companies that have achieved international leadership employ strategies that (1) from each other in every respect. But, when every successful company will employ its own particular strategy, the (2) mode of operation - the character and trajectory of all successful companies – I fundamentally the same. Companies (3) competitive advantage through acts of innovation. They approach innovation in its broadest sense, including both new technologies and new ways of doing things. They perceive a new basis for competing or better means to compete in old ways. Innovation can be (4) in a new product design, a new production process, a new marketing approach or a new way of conducting training. Much innovation is mundane and incremental, depending more on accumulation of small insights and advances (5) on a single, major technological breakthrough. It often involves ideas that are not even `new' ideas, that have been (6) but never vigorously pursued. It always involves investments in skill and knowledge, as well as in physical assets and brand reputation.

Some innovations create competitive advantage by perceiving an entirely new market opportunity or by serving a market segment that others have (7). When competitors are slow to respond, such innovation (8) competitive advantage. For instance, in industries such as autos and home electronics, Japanese companies (9) their initial advantage by (10) on smaller, more compact, lower-capacity models that foreign competitors declared as less profitable, less important and less attractive.

a)   offer

b)   differ

c)   after

d)   contrast

e)   vary

a)   underlying

b)   basis

c)   prima

d)   element

e)   routed

a)   compete

b)   work

c)   follow

d)   achieve

e)   dispatch

a)   obviously

b)   manifested

c)   attached

d)   attested

e)   noticeable

a)   there

b)   the

c)   that

d)   therefore

e)   than

a)   existed

b)   over

c)   around

d)   all

e)   universally

a)   divergent

b)   noticed

c)   ignored

d)   shut

e)   detoured

a)   profits

b)   yields

c)   3)return

d)   felicitates

e)   turns on

a)   strengthens

b)   proceed

c)   allowed

d)   gained

e)   prove

a)   heading

b)   indicating

c)   touching

d)   focusing

e)   emphasizing

Answer Key:

1).b   2).a   3).d   4).b    5).e    6).c    7).c    8).b    9).d    10).d

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