cloze test shai

7/28/2019 Cloze Test Shai

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Purpose: A strategy to help determineif the reading level is suitable ornot. Also can be used as a test ofcomprehension of the text beingstudied.

Rationale: When the students are ableto fill in the blanks, the book issuitable for the age level.


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61% correct independent41-60% correct instructionalbelow 40% frustration!

Strengths: An alternate way of

assessing needs.Weaknesses: Lots of typing.


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Lets have an

exercises!!!!


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Find the correct choice?

Passage 1

After months of colder weather, the days get longer,the buds (1) ............ in the trees, birds sing, andthe world (2) ............ a green dress. Springpasses (3) ............ summer. Everyone knows thatsummer will not (4) ............ . The power of allthe wisest men and women in the world cannot keep itfor us. The corn becomes ripe, the leaves turn brownand then drop to the ground, (5) ............ the

world changes its green dress for a dress of autumncolors.


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1. A. fall off

B. take up

C. put off

D. come out

E. bring down

2. A. looks after

B. puts onC. carries on

D. comes round

E. deals with

3. A. intoB. by

C. from

D. on

E. out of

4.A. foregoB. evaluate

C. succumbD. lastE. evolve

5. A. yetB. thereforeC. sinceD. whereasE. and


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Find the correct choice

Passage 2

Can we see (1) ......... the earth is a globe? Yes, wecan, when we watch a ship that sails out to sea. If wewatch closely, we see that the ship begins

(2) .......... The bottom of the ship disappearsfirst, and then the ship seems to sink lower andlower, (3) ......... we can only see the top of theship, and then we see nothing at all. What is hidingthe ship from us? It is the earth. Stick a pin most ofthe way into an orange, and (4) ......... turn the

orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear,(5) ......... a ship does on the earth.


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1. A. if

B. where

C. thatD. whether

E. when

2. A. being disappeared

B. to be disappeared

C. to have disappearedD. to disappear

E. having disappeared

3. A. until

B. since

C. afterD. by the time

E. unless

4. A. reluctantly

B. accidentally

C. slowly

D. passionately

E. carefully

5. A. the sameB. alike

C. just as

D. by the way

E. similar to


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Find the correct choice

Passage 3

Petroleum, or crude oil, is one of the world's(1) ____ natural resources. Plastics, synthetic

fibers, and (2) _____chemicals areproduced from petroleum. It is also used tomake lubricants and waxes. (3)____, its mostimportant use is as a fuel for heating, for(4) ____electricity, and (5) ____ for powering

vehicles.


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1. A. as important

B. most important

C. so importantly

D. less importantlyE. too important

2. A. much

B. a lot

C. plentyD. many

E. less

3.A. Therefore

B. HoweverC. Moreover

D. Hence

E. Rather

4. A. generated

B. to generate

C. being generatedD. generate

E. generating

5. A. decisively

B. exclusively

C. especially

D. favourably

E. notably


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Cloze Passage 4

The postal service is the governmentagency (1) ----- handles the mail. Its jobis (2) ----- letters and packages to peopleand businesses all over the world. Its goalis to see that your mail gets to itsdestination (3) ----- possible. People(4) ----- the postal service to deliverimportant letters and even valuables,

(5) ----- time and to the right person.


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1. A. the fact that

B. whether

C. of whichD. thatE. in that

2. A. being deliveredB. to be deliveredC. to have deliveredD. having deliveredE. to deliver

3. A. less quicklyB. too quicklyC. so quickly thatD. as quickly asE. the most quickly

4. A. back out

B. check outC. come inD. figure outE. rely on

5. A. toB. forC. at

D. onE. over

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