Cloze Tests 1

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1.The honey bee is a very unusual kind of insect. ___ 1 ___ other insects which live alone, thehoney bee lives as a ___ 2 ___ of a community. These bees live ___ 3 ___ in what is known as a

bee colony.

The head of the colony is called the queen bee. She is larger than the___ 4 ___ of the bees. Hermain task ___ 5 ___ the colony is to lay eggs. Most of the ___ 6 ___ bees are the worker bees.These bees ___ 7 ___ nectar and pollen from flowers. The nectar ___ 8 ___ is carried by the worker

bees is deposited on the hive and then converted ___ 9 ___ honey. The worker bees also help look ___ 10 ___ the young bees. as soon as the eggs are ___ 11 ___, the worker bees feed the young bees ___ 12 ___ pollen and nectar. The third type of bee found in the colony is the drone or ___ 13 ___ bee. The main task of ___ 14 ___ a bee is to mate with a new queen.

The queen bee has a life ___ 15 ___ of about three years. ___ 16 ___ this period, she would have ___ 17 ___ more than half a million eggs. ___ 18 ___ the queen bee is dying, a new queen would be groomed. This new queen would eventually take ___ 19 ___ the 'duties' of the old queen whenthe ___ 20 ___ dies.

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1. Unlike 2. member 3. together 4. rest 5. in 6. other 7. collect 8. that 9. into 10. after11. hatched 12. with 13. male 14. such 15. span 16. During 17. laid 18. When 19. over20. Latter

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"Would you like to buy a box of matchsticks, mister ?" the little girl asked. The man ___ 1 ___she approached did not even ___ 2 ___ to answer her. He shuffled ___ 3 ___ in his great coat, eagerto get home ___ 4 ___ his cosy fireplace.

The girl was shivering ___ 5 ___ the cold. It had been ___ 6 ___ continuously for the past twodays. The girl's shoes, ___ 7 ___ were already thin were thoroughly soaked. Yet, her sweet,angelic ___ 8 ___ did not lose ___ 9 ___ innocent smile. It only made her ___ 10 ___ more patheticwhen she knitted her brows sometimes. Her feet ___ 11 ___ sore with painful chilblains.

Someone shouted, "Watch ___ 12 ___, girl !"

It was too ___ 13 ___ ! The coach ws going too fast and the ___ 14 ___ had not seen her earlier.There was barely enough ___ 15 ___ for the little girl to take a step back. In her hurry to get to

___ 16 ___, the basket of matchsticks fell ___ 17 ___ the snow.

She ___ 18 ___ them up, wet and dirty from a puddle of melted snow. The matchstick couldn't beused now. as she began to make her way ___ 19 ___, she realised that she had lost ___ 20 ___ ofher shoes in the snow.


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1. whom 2. stop/bother 3. away 4. to 5. in 6. snowing 7. which 8. face 9. its 10. look 11.were 12. out 13. late 14. driver 15. time 16. safety 17. onto 18. picked 19. home 20. one

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It was midnight when the last guest left. I sighed heavily as I looked around. The living roomwas ___ 1 ___ of cigarette smell and stale perfume. As I looked around, I ___ 2 ___ wet patches ofspilt beer on my best Persian carpet. My antique vases were totally smashed. They had even

___ 3 ___ my antique oak tables as ashtrays. These guests of ___ 4 ___ had done their best todestroy my expensively decorated living room ! What a night this had turned ___ 5 ___ to be.

I shook my head. The mess would ___ 6 ___ hours to clear. Getting ___ 7 ___ of the smell wouldrequire days. My housekeeper would had resigned ___ 8 ___ the spot if she saw the mess. i had todo ___ 9 ___ fast. I could not afford to lose her ___ 10 ___ she is the best cook I ___ 11 ___ everhad

I had no choice. I went to the bookshelf, took ___ 12 ___ the book 'The Evolution of Man' byCharles Darwin and pressed on the wall behind ___ 13 ___ . A small hole in the wall appeared

___ 14 ___ my right. I reached ___ 15 ___ and took out a long object. Then I waved it in the ___ 16 ___. The room started to clean itself ___ 17 ___ . Even the antique vases started fittingthemselves ___ 18 ___ so well that one could not tell they had been ___ 19 ___. As you might haveguessed by ___ 20 ___, the long object is a wand, and I am what they call a witch.

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1. full 2. saw 3. used 4. mine 5. out 6. take 7. rid 8. on 9. something 10. as 11. have 12. out13. it 14. on 15. in 16. air 17. up 18. together 19. broken 20. now

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You must have heard of many ghost stories, but have you heard of this ___ 1 ___ from Japan ?The story ___ 2 ___ like this; one moonlit night, a man was walking home along the river

___ 3 ___ he saw a woman ___ 4 ___ on the bridge. He could not see her ___ 5 ___ because she wassitting with her back ___ 6 ___ him. However, he could see that she was crying ___ 7 ___hysterically that her whole body was shaking. The man felt ___ 8 ___ for her. when he went

___ 9 ___ to comfort her, she suddenly ___ 10 ___ around. To his horror, the man I ___ 11 ___ thatshe had no eyes, no nose and no mouth ___ 12 ___ her face ! ___ 13 ___ a while the man stoodfrozen. Then he turned and ran away as ___ 14 ___ as he could until he ___ 15 ___ to the nearest


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inn.

Once ___ 16 ___, he began to stammer out what he had seen, for he was trembling ___ 17 ___ fear.The proprietor of the inn, who had been bending ___ 18 ___ to clean the tables, straightened

___ 19 ___ and asked him, "Did she look ___ 20 ___ this ?" His face, too, was egg-like.

The man fainted !

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1. one 2. goes 3. when 4. crying 5. face 6. to 7. so 8. sorry 9. up/forward 10. turned 11. saw12. on 13. For 14. fast 15. came 16. inside 17. with 18. down 19. up 20. like

5.It was a Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs Kerugesu were window shopping at a shopping centre.As they stood outside a boutique, Mr. Kerugesu spotted a shiny new ___ 1 ___ machine.

"Look ! It's ___ 2 ___ of those modern computerized machines that tells your weight and givesyou your fortune at the ___ 3 ___ time. I think I shall try it," he told his ___ 4 ___.

Mrs Kerugesu, however, was not too keen ___ 5 ___ the idea.

"Let's ___ 6 ___ bother. I don't ___ 7 ___ in fortune telling," she said.

Mr. Kerugesu, however, insisted ___ 8 ___ trying the machine. He was very curious to ___ 9 ___out his 'fortune'. He stepped on the machine and ___ 10 ___ a fifty cent coin. There was a soft

buzzing ___ 11 ___ from the machine. A few seconds ___ 12 ___ , a slip of paper emerged. Mrs.Kerugesu took the slip and ___ 13 ___ it out to her husband :

"Your fortune : You are a clever and ___ 14 ___ person. If you are working, you will become anemployee that ___ 15 ___ boss would be proud of. You will become a good leader ___ 16 ___men. Everyone will listen to you ___ 17 ___ you speak. ___ 18 ___ you lead, everyone willfollow."

Mrs. Kerugesu paused ___ 19 ___ breath.

"It's got your weight ___ 20 ___ too," she added.

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1. weighing 2. one 3. same 4. wife 5. about/on 6. not 7. believe 8. on 9. find 10. inserted 11.sound 12. later 13. read 14. talented 15. every 16. of 17. when 18. Wherever 19. for 20. wrong

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Sandwiches make a delicious snack any time. They are a common ___ 1 ___ at picnics and teas.Interestingly enough, the sandwich is the invention of ___ 2 ___ eighteen century English Earlcalled John Montagu. Montagu was addicted ___ 3 ___ card games. he would play these games

___ 4 ___ his friends for long stretches of ___ 5 ___ . Often, he even found it ___ 6 ___ bothersometo stop his games ___ 7 ___ meals.

One day, ___ 8 ___ the middle of a game, Montagu was served a meal of sliced meat ___ 9 ___ bread. At that time, Montagu was playing the game that ___ 10 ___ its players to cover cards oneon top ___ 11 ___ another. As Montagu looked at ___ 12 ___ the game and his food, an idea cameto his ___ 13 ___.

"I can do the same with my food ___ 14 ___ well," he thought.

He took a slice of bread, ___ 15 ___ a piece of meat on it and covered that with ___ 16 ___ slice of bread. Montagu was very pleased with his invention ___ 17 ___ it allowed him to play cards withone hand and eat his meal with the ___ 18 ___.

Montagu's friends quickly caught ___ 19 ___ to his idea and they named the new invention ___ 20 ___ him. As Montagu's full title was 'the Earl of Sandwich', the new invention becameknown as a 'sandwich'.

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1. sight 2. an 3. to 4. with 5. time 6. too 7. for 8. in 9. with 10. required 11. of 12. both 13.mind 14. as 15. placed 16. another 17. because/for 18. other 19. on 20. after

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"I will never forgive her," Anne muttered as she walked away ___ 1 ___ the class. Panting andrunning ___ 2 ___ her, Lilian came up ___ 3 ___ her and apologised profusely ___ 4 ___accidentally spilling chocolate milk all ___ 5 ___ Anne's new bag. Anne ___ 6 ___ to listen toLilian. She cupped her ___ 7 ___ over her ears, glared at Lilian ___ 8 ___ screamed.

"I'll never talk to you ___ 9 ___ !" Then she ran away.

Anne was ___ 10 ___ angry when she reached home. She banged the door hard ___ 11 ___ her andwoke Granny from her afternoon ___ 12 ___ . She was rude to Mother when Mother asked her


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what she ___ 13 ___ for dinner. She ___ 14 ___ little Tony when she found that he had messed ___ 15 ___ her room again. Tony ran howling ___ 16 ___ Mother. His poor arm was red ___ 17 ___Anne's pinching.

"What's the matter ___ 18 ___ you today, Anne ?" Mother came into the room and asked. "You've

made everybody upset ___ 19

___ you stepped into the house. Did something ___ 20

___ in school?"

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1. from 2. after 3. to 4. for 5. over 6. refused 7. hands 8. and 9. again 10. still 11.behind/after 12. nap/sleep 13. wanted 14. pinched 15. up 16. to 17. from 18. with 19. since20. happen

8.I will always remember the trip I made to the zoo in 1988. It was then ___ 1 ___ I caught measlesfrom one of my friends, Peter, who had gone ___ 2 ___ too. ___ 3 ___ he met us at the zoo, he hadgone to ___ 4 ___ his cousin who was recovering ___ 5 ___ measles. The next day, Peter wascomplaining ___ 6 ___ a sore throat, a bad cold and high fever. When he was diagnosed ___ 7 ___a doctor as having measles, his parents rang ___ 8 ___ up to warn me that I had been exposed

___ 9 ___ measles too. By the next day, I was also ___ 10 ___ the same symptoms. My doctoradvised me to ___ 11 ___ at home for the next two weeks.

I was quite pleased ___ 12 ___ the doctor's instruction. I spent the time ___ 13 ___ storybooks,listening to music ___ 14 ___ watching television. When I get ___ 15 ___ , I would call up Peter,who ___ 16 ___ had to spend two weeks at home, for a chat. Unfortunately, the two weeks passed

___ 17 ___ quickly. When we ___ 18 ___ to school, we had to work twice ___ 19 ___ hard to catchup with our classmates. It was definitely not ___ 20 ___ the 'holiday'.

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1. that 2. along 3. Before 4. visit 5. from 6. of 7. by 8. me 9. to 10. showing/having 11. stay

12. with 13. reading 14. and 15. bored 16. also 17. too/by 18. returned 19. as 20. worth

9.Once upon a time, there was a man called Rip Van Winkle. He was a likeable ___ 1 ___ lazy manwho never did an ounce of ___ 2 ___ in his life. His wife was always nagging ___ 3 ___ him for

being so lazy.


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One day, to ___ 4 ___ his wife's nagging, Rip Van Winkle took a stroll in the woods. In thesemysterious woods, he encountered a ___ 5 ___ of old men with long beards. ___ 6 ___ they sawRip Van Winkle, they offered him a drink from a flask. Rip Van Winkle took a ___ 7 ___ andfound the drink delicious. As he was very thirsty, he drank to his heart's ___ 8 ___ . Immediatelyafter the drink, he felt his eyelids becoming heavy. Before he knew it, he had ___ 9 ___ into a

deep sleep.

When he ___ 10 ___ up, the sun was shining brightly.

"I must have slept the whole night," he thought to ___ 11 ___.

As Rip Van Winkle ___ 12 ___ his way home, he discovered, to his astonishment, that thelandscape around him had changed. As he approached his village, he was even ___ 13 ___dumbfounded. He found that he could not recognise ___ 14 ___ in the village ! Not only

___ 15 ___ the people look different, they were also ___ 16 ___ in a different fashion. Everyonewas staring at his chin. As Rip Van Winkle looked ___ 17 ___ at his own chin, he realised, to his

surprise, that he had ___ 18

___ a very long beard.

After ___ 19 ___ some enquiries, Rip Van Winkle realised that one hundred years had passedfrom the time he drank the liquid ___ 20 ___ the time he woke up. This meant that he had beenasleep for one hundred years !

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1. but 2. work 3. at 4. escape/avoid 5. group 6. When 7. sip 8. content 9. fallen 10. woke 11.

himself 12. made 13. more 14. anyone 15. did 16. dressed 17. down 18. grown 19. making 20.To

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The sky was getting darker by the minute and strong wind was ___ 1 ___ across the field. Soon, ___ 2 ___ of water were falling down ___ 3 ___ the overcast sky.

Peter did not ___ 4 ___ the rain at all. It was ___ 5 ___ than playing under the hot ___ 6 ___. Heliked the ___ 7 ___ of rain on his face and the cold sensation ___ 8 ___ it soaked through his

football jersey.

His team had been ___ 9 ___ hard for the tournament. It had been two years ___ 10 ___ they lastwon the Inter-Constituency Football Cup. Last year, in the game ___ 11 ___ Rockingham, theirteam had lost ___ 12 ___ just one goal. They were determined to win the Cup back this year.

"Goal !"


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His team had ___ 13 ___ again. Peter wanted to ___ 14 ___ the next goal. If only he could get ___ 15 ___ the two defenders, he would be able to ___ 16 ___ the ball into the goal easily.

He did not ___ 17 ___ to score his goal because the rain was pouring too ___ 18 ___ and the fieldwas getting too wet. As the boys ended their game and walked ___ 19 ___ the field, Peter

sneezed. he felt and unpleasant tingle of coldness running ___ 20

___ his body.

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1. blowing 2. drops 3. from 4. mind 5. better 6. sun 7. feeling 8. when 9. practising 10. since11. against 12. by 13. scored 14. score 15. past 16. kick 17. get 18. heavily 19. across 20.through/down

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