This third cloze test contains 30 multiple choice questions on the topic of cloze test passage of English language. Both English learners and ESL teachers can use this online exercise as a revision to check the knowledge of cloze test.
Question 1
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Myths may play a critical role in _____ a culture constructs its sense of time.
The preposition in needs a noun clause as its object, and constructs already has its object (its sense of time). So we need how, meaning 'the way in which': myths matter in how a culture builds its idea of time. Not what, because what would have to be the object of constructs, and that object is already there.
Question 2
In _____ sense, myths are contrasted to history, which concerns well _____ events.
In this sense is a fixed phrase meaning 'understood in this way'. It links back to the idea in the previous sentence. Those is plural and cannot go with the singular noun sense.
Question 3
In _____ sense, myths are contrasted to history, which concerns well _____ events.
History deals with well-documented events, meaning events that are fully recorded in written sources. This is the opposite of myths set in an imagined past. Well thought and well regarded do not describe events whose facts are recorded.
Question 4
A myth, however, is generally a story that takes _____ in an imagined, remote, timeless past and _____ of the origins of humans, animals and the supernatural.
Take place means 'happen'. A story takes place in a certain time or setting, here a remote, timeless past. Not take part, which means 'participate' (take part in a race).
Question 5
A myth, however, is generally a story that takes _____ in an imagined, remote, timeless past and _____ of the origins of humans, animals and the supernatural.
Tell of something means 'describe or narrate it', and stories tell of events: a myth that tells of the origins of humans. Say is not used with of in this way, and gossip is informal talk about other people.
Question 6
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When Maria Montessori was born in Italy in 1870, her future seemed certain. Women did not have careers in those days, _____ did they attend college.
Nor adds a second negative idea after a negative clause (did not have careers). It is followed by inversion: nor did they attend. And would need a negative verb instead: and they did not attend.
Question 7
People generally believed that women were not very intelligent and not capable _____ complex thought.
The adjective capable always takes the preposition of: capable of complex thought, capable of doing something.
Question 8
So Maria, it seemed, had little _____.
Have little choice means 'have almost no options'. This fits the context: women of the time were expected to follow one path, so Maria's future seemed decided. The next sentence confirms it: she would become a mother, like most women.
Question 9
_____ her mother and most of the other women, she would become a mother.
Like + noun means 'in the same way as': Like her mother ..., she would become a mother. Such and So cannot introduce a noun phrase in this way.
Question 10
She did, in fact, become a mother, but _____ her life took a very different course. She became a doctor - the first woman doctor in Italy.
Otherwise here means 'apart from that' or 'in other respects'. She did become a mother, but apart from that her life was very different from what people expected. Not on the contrary, which rejects a previous statement, and the writer has just confirmed that she became a mother. Instead of needs a noun after it.
Question 11
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Many tumour markers have been found that looked promising at the time. Unfortunately, most of them have turned out to be _____ good at detecting cancer in its early stages, _____ a handful have proved useful for helping doctors _____ a cancer patient's response to _____, as well as giving some indication of recurrence.
No good at (doing something) means 'useless at it'. This matches Unfortunately and the contrast that follows (though a handful have proved useful). Any good is used only in questions and negatives (Is it any good?). Very good would contradict Unfortunately.
Question 12
Unfortunately, most of them have turned out to be _____ good at detecting cancer in its early stages, _____ a handful have proved useful for helping doctors _____ a cancer patient's response to _____, as well as giving some indication of recurrence.
Though (= although) joins two contrasting clauses. Most markers are useless for early detection, though a few are useful in another way. Because gives a reason, and thus and likewise are adverbs that cannot join two clauses like this.
Question 13
Unfortunately, most of them have turned out to be _____ good at detecting cancer in its early stages, _____ a handful have proved useful for helping doctors _____ a cancer patient's response to _____, as well as giving some indication of recurrence.
The verb help is followed by object + bare infinitive (or to-infinitive): help doctors monitor. Not monitoring, because help is not followed by an -ing form after its object.
Question 14
Many tumour markers have been found that looked promising at the time. Unfortunately, most of them have turned out to be _____ good at detecting cancer in its early stages, _____ a handful have proved useful for helping doctors _____ a cancer patient's response to _____, as well as giving some indication of recurrence.
Doctors check a patient's response to treatment, meaning how well the illness reacts to the medical care given. The mention of recurrence (the cancer coming back) supports this. Not diagnosis: a diagnosis is the identification of an illness, and patients do not 'respond' to it.
Question 15
At present, the only marker _____ used in early cancer detection is PSA. Now a standard test for prostate cancer can't be thought of without PSA.
Widely used means 'used by many people in many places'. The next sentence says PSA is now part of the standard test, which shows it is in common use. At present rules out once, and never or hardly would contradict the next sentence.
Question 16
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"Egyptomania" is a new art exhibition, _____ has opened at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
After a comma, a non-defining relative clause about a thing uses which: a new art exhibition, which has opened .... Not that, which is not used after a comma in non-defining clauses. Not who, which is for people.
Question 17
It shows just how _____ images of Egypt have emerged through the _____ and examines why this ancient culture has continued to have such a powerful influence _____ the Western imagination.
Images is a plural countable noun, so we use how many. How much goes with uncountable nouns. Lot of, every and each cannot follow how.
Question 18
It shows just how _____ images of Egypt have emerged through the _____ and examines why this ancient culture has continued to have such a powerful influence _____ the Western imagination.
Through the ages is a fixed expression meaning 'over a very long period of history'. It fits images of Egypt appearing over thousands of years. Not history: we say through history without the, so through the history is wrong here.
Question 19
It shows just how _____ images of Egypt have emerged through the _____ and examines why this ancient culture has continued to have such a powerful influence _____ the Western imagination.
The noun influence takes the preposition on: have an influence on someone or something. Influence in refers to an area or field where someone has power, not to the thing affected.
Question 20
It _____ five years to prepare the exhibition, which includes more than 300 items, many of them on loan from international museums.
To talk about time needed for a task we use It took + time + to-infinitive: It took five years to prepare the exhibition. Needed does not work with the subject it in this pattern.
Question 21
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There is _____ that pleases the sporting public more than seeing an old champion they once _____ adore coming back after _____ and reviving memories of _____ victories.
There is nothing that pleases ... more than ... is a common pattern meaning 'this pleases them most of all'. Anything would need a negative verb (There isn't anything ...).
Question 22
There is _____ that pleases the sporting public more than seeing an old champion they once _____ adore coming back after _____ and reviving memories of _____ victories.
Used to + base verb describes a past state that is no longer true. The fans adored the champion in the past. Once supports this past meaning. Had to means obligation, which makes no sense with adore.
Question 23
There is _____ that pleases the sporting public more than seeing an old champion they once _____ adore coming back after _____ and reviving memories of _____ victories.
Retirement is the time when a player stops competing, and coming back after retirement is a typical sports comeback. Retreat and withdrawal mean moving back or pulling out, not ending a career.
Question 24
There is _____ that pleases the sporting public more than seeing an old champion they once _____ adore coming back after _____ and reviving memories of _____ victories.
Prior is an adjective meaning 'earlier, previous': prior victories are the wins from the past. Before is not used as an adjective in front of a noun. Later would mean future wins, which do not fit reviving memories.
Question 25
But _____ the other hand, seeing a once-great player losing easily to a beginner is an embarrassing experience.
On the other hand is a fixed linking phrase that introduces a contrasting point. The previous sentence describes the pleasure of a comeback; this one describes the embarrassment. No other preposition is used in this phrase.
Question 26
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The _____ way to learn new vocabulary is to meet it _____ context in the course of _____ reading, but while you probably know the root words that are given in most _____ - friend, for example - you may not have seen the abstract noun, friendship, or the adjective _____ looks like an adverb, friendly, or the negative form, unfriendly.
The best way to do something uses the superlative of good. It means 'the most effective method' among all possible methods. Better is a comparative and needs a comparison with than.
Question 27
The _____ way to learn new vocabulary is to meet it _____ context in the course of _____ reading, but while you probably know the root words that are given in most _____ - friend, for example - you may not have seen the abstract noun, friendship, or the adjective _____ looks like an adverb, friendly, or the negative form, unfriendly.
In context is a fixed phrase meaning 'within real sentences or texts', not in isolation. To meet words in context is to see them used naturally while reading.
Question 28
The _____ way to learn new vocabulary is to meet it _____ context in the course of _____ reading, but while you probably know the root words that are given in most _____ - friend, for example - you may not have seen the abstract noun, friendship, or the adjective _____ looks like an adverb, friendly, or the negative form, unfriendly.
The passage speaks directly to the reader: you probably know ..., you may not have seen .... So the matching possessive is your reading. His, her, their and my would refer to someone not mentioned in the text.
Question 29
The _____ way to learn new vocabulary is to meet it _____ context in the course of _____ reading, but while you probably know the root words that are given in most _____ - friend, for example - you may not have seen the abstract noun, friendship, or the adjective _____ looks like an adverb, friendly, or the negative form, unfriendly.
In most cases is a fixed phrase meaning 'usually' or 'most of the time'. Here it describes the root words that are normally given in vocabulary lists. Possibilities, opportunities and moments do not form this expression.
Question 30
The _____ way to learn new vocabulary is to meet it _____ context in the course of _____ reading, but while you probably know the root words that are given in most _____ - friend, for example - you may not have seen the abstract noun, friendship, or the adjective _____ looks like an adverb, friendly, or the negative form, unfriendly.
A defining relative clause about a thing (the adjective) uses which (or that): the adjective which looks like an adverb. Not who, which is only for people. Not what, which cannot follow a noun.
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