Cloze Test

Find blank (iv).

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 (v).

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 (vi).

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 (vii).

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.

Find blank (vii).

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 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.

Fill blank (i).

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.

Find blank (iii).

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.

Find blank (v).

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.

Find blank (viii).

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.

Find blank (iv).

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.

Find blank (vi).

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.

Find blank (x).

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 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.

Fill blank (vii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

A Braille embosser is an impact printer ___ (i) ___ renders text as tactile Braille cells. Using Braille translation software, a document can be embossed with relative ___ (ii) ___, making Braille production efficient ___ (iii) ___ cost-effective. Braille printers receive data ___ (iv) ___ computer devices and emboss that information in Braille ___ (v) ___ paper through the use of solenoids that control embossing pins. Braille printers usually print on heavyweight paper and use up ___ (vi) ___  pages for the same ___ (vii) ___ of information than pages printed on a regular printer. ___ (viii) ___ are also slower and noisier. Interpoint printers are Braille printers that emboss Braille ___ (ix) ___ both sides of a page. The price of a Braille printer is directly ___ (x) ___ to the volume of Braille it produces.