Cloze Test

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank (1).

At the time when I joined journalism, I was a greenhorn brimming with (1) and convinced that I had chosen a (2) profession. It was only subsequently that I discovered that Charlie's (3) was by no means unique. Indeed, it reflects the attitude of many others. Oscar Wilde once said, "By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the (4) of the community." Knaves, it seems, or even (5), is how the world sees us.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank (2).

At the time when I joined journalism, I was a greenhorn brimming with (1) and convinced that I had chosen a (2) profession. It was only subsequently that I discovered that Charlie's (3) was by no means unique. Indeed, it reflects the attitude of many others. Oscar Wilde once said, "By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the (4) of the community." Knaves, it seems, or even (5), is how the world sees us.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank (4).

At the time when I joined journalism, I was a greenhorn brimming with (1) and convinced that I had chosen a (2) profession. It was only subsequently that I discovered that Charlie's (3) was by no means unique. Indeed, it reflects the attitude of many others. Oscar Wilde once said, "By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the (4) of the community." Knaves, it seems, or even (5), is how the world sees us.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank (3).

At the time when I joined journalism, I was a greenhorn brimming with (1) and convinced that I had chosen a (2) profession. It was only subsequently that I discovered that Charlie's (3) was by no means unique. Indeed, it reflects the attitude of many others. Oscar Wilde once said, "By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the (4) of the community." Knaves, it seems, or even (5), is how the world sees us.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank (5).

At the time when I joined journalism, I was a greenhorn brimming with (1) and convinced that I had chosen a (2) profession. It was only subsequently that I discovered that Charlie's (3) was by no means unique. Indeed, it reflects the attitude of many others. Oscar Wilde once said, "By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the (4) of the community." It seems that the world sees us as (5).

Directions: Fill blank (2) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

Direct democracy is the oldest form of democracy. Athens was a direct democracy because with only 50,000 citizens, it had (1) diversity and was manageably small. But even there, since it was not practical for all citizens to vote every day, a few voted on a given day. These few were elected and picked (2) by lot. Socrates and Plato, on the other hand, (3) direct democracy and had no faith in the mob's wisdom. They thought that direct democracy is (4) to demagoguery and the (5) of the mob.

Directions: Fill blank (1) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

Direct democracy is the oldest form of democracy. Athens was a direct democracy because with only 50,000 citizens, it had (1) diversity and was manageably small. But even there, since it was not practical for all citizens to vote every day, a few voted on a given day. These few were elected and picked (2) by lot. Socrates and Plato, on the other hand, (3) direct democracy and had no faith in the mob's wisdom. They thought that direct democracy is (4) to demagoguery and the (5) of the mob.

Directions: Fill blank (3) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

Direct democracy is the oldest form of democracy. Athens was a direct democracy because with only 50,000 citizens, it had (1) diversity and was manageably small. But even there, since it was not practical for all citizens to vote every day, a few voted on a given day. These few were elected and picked (2) by lot. Socrates and Plato, on the other hand, (3) direct democracy and had no faith in the mob's wisdom. They thought that direct democracy is (4) to demagoguery and the (5) of the mob.

Directions: Fill blank (4) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

Direct democracy is the oldest form of democracy. Athens was a direct democracy because with only 50,000 citizens, it had (1) diversity and was manageably small. But even there, since it was not practical for all citizens to vote every day, a few voted on a given day. These few were elected and picked (2) by lot. Socrates and Plato, on the other hand, (3) direct democracy and had no faith in the mob's wisdom. They thought that direct democracy is (4) to demagoguery and the (5) of the mob.

Directions: Fill blank (1) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

A bot is a software that ___ (1) ___ human behaviour on the internet. Bots can be used to create ___ (2) ___ accounts on social media, provide numerous likes on a particular page, send tweets or visit various websites without any human involvement. Bots already constitute a significant percentage of Non-Human Traffic (NHT) online and have, according to some estimates, ___ (3) ___ human traffic. Malicious traffic, malware, hacking attempts, viruses slow down the internet and ___ (4) ___ legitimate traffic and services. Used to target systems, NHT generates fake clicks on advertisements to increase website statistics. One of the ___ (5) ___ of ignoring artificial web traffic is that it gets counted for real impressions for which clients end up paying.

Directions: Fill blank (2) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

A bot is a software that ___ (1) ___ human behaviour on the internet. Bots can be used to create ___ (2) ___ accounts on social media, provide numerous likes on a particular page, send tweets or visit various websites without any human involvement. Bots already constitute a significant percentage of Non Human Traffic (NHT) online and have, according to some estimates, ___ (3) ___ human traffic. Malicious traffic, malware, hacking attempts, viruses slow down the internet and ___ (4) ___ legitimate traffic and services. Used to target systems, NHT generates fake clicks on advertisements to increase website statistics. One of the ___ (5) ___ of ignoring artificial web traffic is that it gets counted for real impressions for which clients end up paying.

Directions: Fill blank (4) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

A bot is a software that ___ (1) ___ human behaviour on the internet. Bots can be used to create ___ (2) ___ accounts on social media, provide numerous likes on a particular page, send tweets or visit various websites without any human involvement. Bots already constitute a significant percentage of Non Human Traffic (NHT) online and have, according to some estimates, ___ (3) ___ human traffic. Malicious traffic, malware, hacking attempts, viruses slow down the internet and ___ (4) ___ legitimate traffic and services. Used to target systems, NHT generates fake clicks on advertisements to increase website statistics. One of the ___ (5) ___ of ignoring artificial web traffic is that it gets counted for real impressions for which clients end up paying.

Directions: Fill blank (5) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

A bot is a software that ___ (1) ___ human behaviour on the internet. Bots can be used to create ___ (2) ___ accounts on social media, provide numerous likes on a particular page, send tweets or visit various websites without any human involvement. Bots already constitute a significant percentage of Non Human Traffic (NHT) online and have, according to some estimates, ___ (3) ___ human traffic. Malicious traffic, malware, hacking attempts, viruses slow down the internet and ___ (4) ___ legitimate traffic and services. Used to target systems, NHT generates fake clicks on advertisements to increase website statistics. One of the ___ (5) ___ of ignoring artificial web traffic is that it gets counted for real impressions for which clients end up paying.

Directions: Fill blank (3) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

A bot is a software that ___ (1) ___ human behaviour on the internet. Bots can be used to create ___ (2) ___ accounts on social media, provide numerous likes on a particular page, send tweets or visit various websites without any human involvement. Bots already constitute a significant percentage of Non Human Traffic (NHT) online and have, according to some estimates, ___ (3) ___ human traffic. Malicious traffic, malware, hacking attempts, viruses slow down the internet and ___ (4) ___ legitimate traffic and services. Used to target systems, NHT generates fake clicks on advertisements to increase website statistics. One of the ___ (5) ___ of ignoring artificial web traffic is that it gets counted for real impressions for which clients end up paying.

Directions: Fill blank (5) with the appropriate word from the given choices.

Direct democracy is the oldest form of democracy. Athens was a direct democracy because with only 50,000 citizens, it had (1) diversity and was manageably small. But even there, since it was not practical for all citizens to vote every day, a few voted on a given day. These few were elected and picked (2) by lot. Socrates and Plato, on the other hand, (3) direct democracy and had no faith in the mob's wisdom. They thought that direct democracy is (4) to demagoguery and the (5) of the mob.