Cloze Test With Clues
Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary.
1.
A society’s culture is (a) --- up of all of its ideas and ways of behaviour. Language, music, ideas about what is good and what is bad, ways of (b) ---, and the tools and other objects made and (c) --- by people in the society, all these are parts of a society’s culture. As studying a person’s (d) --- actions is a good way to find out information about that person, learning the important (e) --- of an entire society is a way to learn about the culture of that group. Patterns of behavior and action may (f) --- from individual to individual, class to class, society to society and country to country. These (g) --- are referred to as cultural differences. What is an appropriate mode of behavior in one culture may prove (h) --- or even rude in another culture. For example, when Latin Americans talk to each other, they (i) --- about 18 to 12 in inches apart measured nose to nose. To stand anymore away from each other while talking seems (j) --- to them.
Ans: (a) made, (b) working, (c) used, (d) repeated, (e) patterns, (f) vary, (g) differences, (h) inappropriate, (i) stand, (j) unfriendly.
2.
Last week I went to Bagerhat with some of my intimate friends and had an (a) --- to visit Shatgombuj Mosque which is one of the most famous (b) --- beauties of Bangladesh. The mosque was built by Khan Jahan Ali in 1440. It has been (c) --- as one of the most impressive Muslim monuments in South Asia. The mosque (d) --- on sixty pillars with its seventy-seven domes. Its walls are two meter thick and the interior western wall was (e) --- with terracotta flowers and foliage. There is also a dighi by the (f) --- of the mosque. It is said that a horse was made to run before the pond was (g) ---. The mosque (h) --- be used as a prayer hall and an assembly hall. It (i) --- wonderful archaeological beauty which is a (j) --- of the 15th century.
Ans: (a) opportunity, (b) architectural, (c) described, (d) stands, (e) decorated, (f) side, (g) dug, (h) would, (i) represents, (j) signature.
3.
The significance of reading newspapers has been observed (a) --- the dawn of its history and it cannot be (b) --- in words. The news of all that happens in the world reaches us (c) --- newspapers. The conditions of (d) --- people of the world are told through them. The (e) --- situation of a country is described in them. The (f) --- of great men of science are given publicity through newspapers too. The speeches and comments on the new measures (g) --- by governments are (h) --- in time in newspapers. We can learn about the latest political movements and changes in governments and (i) --- politics and affairs going through the international page. A student can also be (j) --- from a newspaper.
Ans: (a) since, (b) described, (c) through, (d) various, (e) economic, (f) achievements, (g) taken, (h) published, (i) international, (j) benefited.
4.
Most of the people who (a) --- most often and most gloriously in the pages of history are (b) ---, generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really help (c) --- forward are often not (d) --- at all. We do not know who first set a (e) --- leg or launched a sea-worthy boat or (f) --- the length of a year, but we know all about the (g) --- and destroyers. People think a great deal of them so much that in all the highest pillars in great cities of the world we (h) --- the figures of conquerors, generals or soldiers. And I think that most people (i) --- that the greatest countries are those that defeated the (j) --- number of countries in battle fields and ruled over them as conquerors.
Ans: (a) appear, (b) conquerors, (c) civilization, (d) mentioned, (e) broken, (f) calculated, (g) killers, (h) find, (i) believe, (j) greatest.
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