Cloze Test Questions For SSC Aspirant
21Question:- Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks with the suitable option:(i-iv)
Question-1;
Earth, our home is the third planet from the
sun. It's the only __(i)__ known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on
its surface and of course life.
The fifth-largest planet in the solar system
is the earth. It is similar __(ii)__
the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune but larger than the
three other rocky planets, Mercury-Mars and Venus.
Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles and is__(iii)__ because gravity pulls
matter into a ball. But it is not perfectly round. Earth is really an
"oblate spheroid," because its spin causes it to be squashed at its
poles and swollen at the equator.
71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water
and most of that is in the oceans. About a fifth of earth's atmosphere consists
of oxygen, produced by __(iv)__.
While scientists have been studying our planet for centuries, a lot has been
learned in the past few decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

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