Cloze Test

Fill blank (iii).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (xi).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (x).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (viii).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (ii).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (vii).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (ix).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (vi).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Fill blank (i).

Directions: The following passage has some numbered blanks.

Naval architects never (i) ___ that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely (ii) ____ have never (iii) ____. It was well (iv) ____ and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It (v) ____ thoroughly inspected on the day of its (vi) ____ voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so (vii) ____ that most of those (viii) ____, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, (ix) _____ no chance to save themselves. Of those who managed to (x) ____ overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of (xi) _____ before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea.

Find blank (viii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Internet was started as a/an (i) ______ to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never (ii) ______ to survive a nuclear blast its design has proven again and again how robust it is. It has withstood (iii) ______ an attack from construction, people digging up cables, to lightning blowing up a router. The network has always recovered (iv) ______ bypassed the problem. The Internet (v) ______ as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was (vi) ______ by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in (vii) ______ with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network (viii) ______ could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very (ix) ______ way to communicate. (x) ______ originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly became its most popular application.

Find blank (ix).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Internet was started as a/an (i) ______ to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never (ii) ______ to survive a nuclear blast its design has proven again and again how robust it is. It has withstood (iii) ______ an attack from construction, people digging up cables, to lightning blowing up a router. The network has always recovered (iv) ______ bypassed the problem. The Internet (v) ______ as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was (vi) ______ by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in (vii) ______ with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network (viii) ______ could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very (ix) ______ way to communicate. (x) ______ originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly became its most popular application.

Find blank (ii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Internet was started as a/an (i) ______ to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never (ii) ______ to survive a nuclear blast its design has proven again and again how robust it is. It has withstood (iii) ______ an attack from construction, people digging up cables, to lightning blowing up a router. The network has always recovered (iv) ______ bypassed the problem. The Internet (v) ______ as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was (vi) ______ by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in (vii) ______ with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network (viii) ______ could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very (ix) ______ way to communicate. (x) ______ originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly became its most popular application.

Fill blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Internet was started as a/an (i) ______ to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never (ii) ______ to survive a nuclear blast its design has proven again and again how robust it is. It has withstood (iii) ______ an attack from construction, people digging up cables, to lightning blowing up a router. The network has always recovered (iv) ______ bypassed the problem. The Internet (v) ______ as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was (vi) ______ by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in (vii) ______ with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network (viii) ______ could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very (ix) ______ way to communicate. (x) ______ originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly became its most popular application.

Find blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Internet was started as a/an (i) ______ to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack. While the net has never (ii) ______ to survive a nuclear blast its design has proven again and again how robust it is. It has withstood (iii) ______ an attack from construction, people digging up cables, to lightning blowing up a router. The network has always recovered (iv) ______ bypassed the problem. The Internet (v) ______ as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was (vi) ______ by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in (vii) ______ with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network (viii) ______ could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very (ix) ______ way to communicate. (x) ______ originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly became its most popular application.

Find blank (x).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The time scale of the universe is very long as (i) _______ to that for human life. It was therefore not (ii) _______ that until recently, the universe was thought to be essentially static, and unchanging in time. On the other hand, it must have been obvious, that society is (iii) _______ in culture and technology. This indicates that the present (iv) _______ of human history cannot have been going for more than a few thousand years. Otherwise, we would be more advanced than we are. It was therefore (v) _______ to believe that the human race, and maybe (vi) _______ whole universe, had a beginning in the fairly recent past. However, many people were unhappy with the (vii) _______ that the universe had a beginning, because it seemed to (viii) _______ the existence of a supernatural being that created the universe. They preferred to (ix) _______ that the universe, and the human race, had existed forever. Their explanation for human progress was that there had been periodic floods, or other natural disasters, which (x) _______ set back the human race to a primitive state.