Example of Cloze Test
Fill Each of the Numbered Blanks in the Following Passage. Use Only One
Word in Each Space.
At Sixteen Henry Vincent Was Separated From His Family As a Result of the War. He Wandered
Aimlessly From……….(1) Country to Another …………(2) Finally Setting Down in Australia,
……..(3) He Trained ………(4) an Electronic Engineer. He Established ………(5) Own Business
but It Called for So Much Work That Marriage Was Out of the ………(6).
His Retirement Suddenly ………(7) realise ………(8) Lonely He Was and He Decided to
………(9) up a Hobby. With His Interest ………(10) Electronics, Amateur Radio Seemed a Natural
Choice. He Installed His Own Equipment and Obtained a License and His Call Sign, Which Is Set
of Letters and Numbers Used to ………(11) Oneself When Making Radio Contact With Other
Radio Amateurs All ………(12) the World.
Soon Henry Had ………(13) Great Many Contacts in Far-off Places. One in Particular Was
a Man in California ……….(14) He Had Much in Common. One Night the Man in California
………(15) to Mention the Village in Europe He ……….(16) Come From. Suddenly, Henry realised
That This Man Was in Fact His Younger Brother, Peter.At First, the Two Brothers Were at a
………(17) for Words but Then Little by Little They Filled ………(18) the Details of Their Past Lives
and Not ………(19) Afterwards Henry Vincent Flew to California to ………(20) Reunited With His
Brother.
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