CLOZE PRACTICE
Part 1: Read the text below about Swiss watches and think of the word which best fits
each space. Use only ONE word in each space.
Watches From Switzerland
The Swiss are (1)_________ for making watches. They (2)_________ about half of the watches
in the world. The (3)_________ where watches are manufactured are brightly lit and clean. The
(4)__________ in the factory wear white coats and work on long tables. Each worker does a
little bit of work on each watch. This is called an (5)____________ line. Carefully,
(6)___________ by piece, they put them (7)__________ to make a watch. Some workers use
(8)____________ glasses to help them see small objects. Switzerland does not have iron, coal
or oil that are needed for heavy (9)_______________. But the country does have lots of highly
(10)______________ workers. The Swiss produce valuable items that (11)_______________
little raw materials but lots of skills. This makes Switzerland a prosperous (12)______________.
Part 2: Read the text below about Beethoven and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word in each space.
Standardized shopping malls have become the new Main Streets of the USA according to one
(11) ______________ on the subject. Along with antibiotics and personal computers, the
shopping mall has been (12)______________ as one of the top 50 wonders that have
revolutionized the lives of people today. But shopping malls didn’t just happen out of the blue.
The mall was originally (13)______________ of as a community center where people would
(14) ______________ for shopping, cultural activity, and social interaction. It is safe to (15)
______________ that the mall has achieved and (16) ____________ those early expectations.
The first enclosed mall was developed in a suburb of Minneapolis in 1956 and was designed to
get the shopper out of the harsh weather. The phenomenal growth and development of
shopping centers were a natural (17) ______________ of the migration of the population out
from the cities and (18) ______________ the growth of the use of the automobile. The success
and impact of the shopping mall may have something to do with their potential to (19)
______________ community life.
11. A. scholar
12. A. put forward ​
13. A. imagined​
14. A. cluster
15. A. say
16. A. overturned​
17. A. sequel
18. A. corresponded
19. A. raise
B. master
B. set up
B. devised
B. converge
B. tell
B. surpassed
B. upshot
B. paralleled
B. magnify
C. body
C. picked up​
C. conceived
C. group
C. speak
C. underperformed
C. follow-up
C. correlated
C. enhance
D. authority
D. brought out
D. formulated
D. rally
D. remark
D. enabled
D. consequence
D. equated
D. heighten
Part 3: Read the text below about English and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word in each space.
The Role of Antibiotics in Our Life
Although there are many strains of antibiotic bacteria now present in hospital wards, antibiotics
have effectively served (20) ___________ original purpose over the course of the past eighty
years. They have been able to treat the infections of countless individuals and saved millions of
lives. Antibiotics have changed the way in (21) ___________ many common diseases are
viewed. (22) ___________ infected with bacterial pneumonia, for instance, is no longer
considered fatal. Rather, it is viewed as a mundane infection which can be cured (23)
___________ a simple course of antibiotics. The number of antibiotics available for use has
also affected their impact (24) ___________ society. Even if one antibiotic is ineffective at (25)
__________ a disease, there are, for most common infections, a host of (26) ___________
drugs that can be used to effectively cure the disease. The development of antibiotics over the
past eighty years has changed the relationship between humans and disease. Antibiotics have
given humans the power to fight back effectively (27) ___________ microorganisms in a way
that (28) ___________ have been considered impossible just a century ago.
Part 4: Read the text below about hackers and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word in each space.
Just as a language may develop varieties in the form of dialects, languages as a whole may
change. Sometimes rapid language change occurs as a result of (28) ___________ between
people who each speak a different language. In such circumstances a pidgin language may
(29)___________. Pidgins are grammatically (30) ___________ on one language but are also
influenced, especially in vocabulary, by others; they have relatively small sound systems,
reduced vocabularies and simplified and altered grammars, and they rely (31) ___________ on
context in order to be understood.
Pidgins are often the (32)__________ of traders meeting island and coastal peoples. A pidgin
has no native speakers: when speakers of a pidgin have children who learn the pidgin as their
first language, that language is then called a creole. (33) ___________ the creole has enough
native speakers to form a speech community, the creole may (34) ___________ into a fuller
language.
28. A. approximation
29. A. issue ​
30. A. based​
31. A. decisively
32. A. result
33. A. overturned​
34. A. increase
B. contact
B. stem
B. derived
B. thoroughly
B. concept
B. surpassed
B. expand
C. link
C. spring
C. built
C. closely
C. exchange
C. underperformed
C. enlarge
D. acquaintance
D. arise
D. hinged
D. heavily
D. cause
D. enabled
D. swell