Cloze Test

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial __(1) __ has become increasingly _____ (2) _____ as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular organization _____ (3) _____ According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to _____ (4) _____ increases when an employee feels his _____ (5) _____ is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organisations, today, employees are _____ (6) _____ to organisational rewards just by being employed. Unions, governmental regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases _____ (7) _____ management from _____ (8) _____ financial rewards for performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in organisations to receive organisational rewards, but _____ (9) _____ motivated to join an organisation is _____ (10) _____ the same as being motivated.

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial __(1) __ has become increasingly _____ (2) _____ as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular organization _____ (3) _____ According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to _____ (4) _____ increases when an employee feels his _____ (5) _____ is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organisations, today, employees are _____ (6) _____ to organisational rewards just by being employed. Unions, governmental regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases _____ (7) _____ management from _____ (8) _____ financial rewards for performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in organisations to receive organisational rewards, but _____ (9) _____ motivated to join an organisation is _____ (10) _____ the same as being motivated.

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial __(1) __ has become increasingly _____ (2) _____ as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular organization _____ (3) _____ According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to _____ (4) _____ increases when an employee feels his _____ (5) _____ is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organisations, today, employees are _____ (6) _____ to organisational rewards just by being employed. Unions, governmental regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases _____ (7) _____ management from _____ (8) _____ financial rewards for performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in organisations to receive organisational rewards, but _____ (9) _____ motivated to join an organisation is _____ (10) _____ the same as being motivated.

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial __(1) __ has become increasingly _____ (2) _____ as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular organization _____ (3) _____ According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to _____ (4) _____ increases when an employee feels his _____ (5) _____ is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organisations, today, employees are _____ (6) _____ to organisational rewards just by being employed. Unions, governmental regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases _____ (7) _____ management from _____ (8) _____ financial rewards for performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in organisations to receive organisational rewards, but _____ (9) _____ motivated to join an organisation is _____ (10) _____ the same as being motivated.

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Motivating employees with traditional authority and financial __(1) __ has become increasingly _____ (2) _____ as employees become economically secure and their dependency on any one particular organization _____ (3) _____ According to expectancy theorists, the motivation to _____ (4) _____ increases when an employee feels his _____ (5) _____ is an instrument for obtaining desired rewards. Nevertheless, in many organisations, today, employees are _____ (6) _____ to organisational rewards just by being employed. Unions, governmental regulations, and the nature of the job itself in some cases _____ (7) _____ management from _____ (8) _____ financial rewards for performance. People may be attracted to join and remain in organisations to receive organisational rewards, but _____ (9) _____ motivated to join an organisation is _____ (10) _____ the same as being motivated.

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.

The word 'appalling' means _____.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.

'Pre-industrial' means _______.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.

Fill in the blank (2).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (7).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (6).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (11).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (3).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (17).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (8).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.

Fill in the blank (4).

Directions: In the following passage, there are some blanks, each of which has been numbered.

Tom Sawyer is a __(1)__. After Tom gets in trouble, he is __(2)__ by Aunt Polly, with whom he lives, to __(3)__ their fence. When his friends see him __(4)__ the fence, Tom pretends that he __(5)__ the chore to make his friends jealous. They __(6)__ him to let them help. This is a prime example of the __(7)__ of trouble Tom Sawyer is always getting up to. Part of the novel __(8)__ devoted to Tom's romance with Becky Thatcher, a new girl __(9)__ town. They like __(10)__ other, but Becky is hurt when she finds out __(11)__ Tom liked someone else before her. __(12)__, he takes the __(13)__ for a book she ruined, __(14)__ her like him again. Tom is always getting into trouble, usually with __(15)__ friend, Huckleberry Finn. __(16)__ they sneak __(17)__ to a graveyard at night, where __(18)__ witness Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Tom, Huck, and their friend, Joe Harper, run away for a __(19)__ while, making the town think they are dead. Eventually they come back, though, and Tom __(20)__ against Injun Joe in court.