CBSE Class 10 English Gap Filling

Study Material

Study the given notes and complete the paragraph that follows by filling up the gaps with the most appropriate word/words:

Instructions for opening a Bank A/C:
• Select the Bank of your choice
• Contact the Customer Care Officer in the Bank
• Contact the proper Authority as instructed by the Customer Care
• Submit the required documents
• Contact the bank as instructed for collecting your Passbook and ATM card For opening a bank A/C you need to select a bank of your choice. You

(a) ……………….. to visit the bank and contact the Customer Care Officer there. Thereafter you should meet the concerned Authority. You are required

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need

(b) ……………….. submit the documents. Don’t forget to visit the bank

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to

(c) ……………….. collecting the passbook and ATM card on the date instructed by the bank official.

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for

Polishing your shoes:
• Clean shoes
• Polish coated
• Let them soak
• Brush to shine

Shoes are cleaned of dust with a brush. A layer of polish

(a) ……………….. over the shoes. One should wait a little till the polish

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is coated

(b) ……………….. the leather.Then shoes

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soaks

(c) ……………….. brushed to shine.

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are

Process of Operating an ATM:
• Find an ATM of any bank
• Take your ATM card and put it in the slot
• Enter your secret PIN
• Select your option
• Wait a little till your transaction is complete
• Get the currency
• Collect your Card and Transaction Slip
• Leave the ATM cabin

For doing transaction through ATM you are required to find an ATM of any bank. First you

(a) ……………….. to put your card in the card slot and it is followed by

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need

(b) ……………….. the secret PIN. You are supposed

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entering

(c) ……………….. wait till your transaction is complete. Then take the currency, collect your card and leave the ATM cabin.

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to

Supply the appropriate word/words to complete the following passages:

Most UFO sightings occur

(a) …………. the night, either late in the evening or in the early hours of the morning.

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in

(b) …………. they take place on a dark moonless night when the person

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Often

(c) …………. alone on a country road. This eerie atmosphere is perfect

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is

(d) …………. playing tricks on a person’s imagination. Police and newspaper officers are often swamped

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for

(e) …………. calls when something strange is seen in the skies. Once,

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with

(f ) …………. is given, most people are happy to accept it. But they are always keen to know why 

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Once

(g) …………. things happen and what

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such

(h) …………. the cause for such happenings.

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is

Human civilisations have been around

(a) …………. a paltry 12,000 years, barely a

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for

(b) …………. seconds

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few

(c) …………. the geological clock. In that short amount

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on

(d) …………. time, we’ve managed

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of

(e) …………. create quite a ruckus, etching our dominance

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to

(f) …………. nature with our villages, towns, cities and megacities. Early human civilizations prospered

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over

(g) …………. Egypt, Greece, China

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in

(h) …………. India.

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and

Climate change

(a) …………. one

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is

(b) …………. the most

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of

(c) …………. contested environmental debates of our time.

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hotly

(d) …………. the West Antarctic ice sheet melt entirely? Will the Gulf Stream ocean current

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Will

(e) …………. disrupted? May be. May be not.

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be

(f) …………. way, Antarctica is a crucial element in this debate. What

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Either

(g) …………. be the effect of global warming

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will

(h) …………. Antarctica in the coming years?

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on

Dr. Sadao Hoki’s house

(a) …………. built on a spot of the Japanese coast where like

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was

(b) …………. little boy he had often,

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where

(c) …………. . The low, square stone house

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as

(d) …………. set

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often

(e) …………. rocks well

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upon

(f) ……… a narrow beach that was outlined with bent pines. His father wanted Sadao to

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above

(g) …………. medicine. He sent him to America

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study

(h) …………. studying medicine.

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for