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Cloze Test 1: Cloze Test 1: Fill in Each Numbered Blank With ONE Appropriate Word

In many European countries, there has been a steady migration of people from rural villages to large cities in search of improved standards of living and more opportunities. Large cities do offer increased access to healthcare, education, housing and jobs. However, issues like pollution, overpopulation and loss of green space cause many to feel nostalgia for their former village lives. While cities initially seem to solve problems, the challenges of urban living can become unbearable for those who miss the peacefulness of rural areas.

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Cloze Test 1: Cloze Test 1: Fill in Each Numbered Blank With ONE Appropriate Word

In many European countries, there has been a steady migration of people from rural villages to large cities in search of improved standards of living and more opportunities. Large cities do offer increased access to healthcare, education, housing and jobs. However, issues like pollution, overpopulation and loss of green space cause many to feel nostalgia for their former village lives. While cities initially seem to solve problems, the challenges of urban living can become unbearable for those who miss the peacefulness of rural areas.

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Cloze Test 1: Fill in each numbered blank with ONE appropriate word:

In many countries of Europe, there has been a steady drift of people away from
villages to large cities. These people, many of whom have grown in great poverty and
deprivation, hope to improve their standard of (1) _living______and see the metropolis as the
solution to all their problems. In many ways, they find what they are looking for. Large cities
do offer a huge number of facilities, (2) _among______ which better education, better health
care and improved housing are perhaps the most important. Large companies and factories ,
the vast (3) __majority_____ of which pride themselves on looking after the interests of their
employees, also open up any (4) __number____ of career opportunities for those willing to
work hard. Inevitably, however, (5) __there____ comes a time when people begin to long for
the simplicity of the village or small town.
Traffic problems and pollution, both of which affect most large cities today, cause the
most unhappiness. For people to whom fresh air, unpolluted water and beautiful countryside
are distant-(6) _______ nonetheless painful clear-memories of a previous, peaceful life in a
village, the situation must at (7) _times______ be unbearable. The pressure of overpopulation
has meant that, in the last thirty or forty years, thousands (8) _and______Thousands of new
flats have been built, often with (9) _little______ regard to architectural beauty and the
surrounding countryside has all (10) but_______ disappeared in many cases. It is no longer
such an easy matter to escape the noise and the turmoil of the streets and find a field or a
forest where the children can play in safety.

CLOZE TEST 1
1. living 2. among 3. majority 4. number 5. there
6. but 7. times 8. upon 9. scant/ little 10. But

Cloze Test 2: Fill in each numbered blank with ONE appropriate word:

THE MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD


There are 4,000 toys in London’s Museum of (1) __childhood_____ but it is not
essential to be a child to enjoy it. Most of the older toys were meant to be played with by
adults.
All the toys (2) __live in a beautiful glass - top building in the East End of London –
but it wasn’t built for them. It was opened in 1872 and displayed art, shoe – making and
furniture (3) _collections_____ It wasn’t until 1974, when the children’s section had grown
enormously, that the whole building was officially devoted to the history of childhood.
Once upon a time every toy was (4) home-made although by the late 1900s a huge toy
industry had developed. Many home-made toys were made of metal and wood and a few of
these have (5) _lasted ______well enough for the museum to display. It even has one of the
oldest dolls’ houses still in (6) _existence____ made in 1673. There is something for
everyone, including the 18th century toy theatre and the miniature Chinese gardens, (7)
__containing_____ tiny animals. Whichever is your favourite, each exhibit enables you to
catch a (8) __glimpse_____ of the people and world it was made for.
The 35 or (9) _older______workers at the museum take great care to make sure that
all of the exhibits are preserved in good working order. And as for 500 new toys that move in
every year from all over the world – nobody has ever heard a (10) _single______one
complaining.

CLOZE TEST 2
1. Childhood 2. live 3. collections 4. home-made 5. Lasted
6. existence 7. Containing 8. Glimpse 9. So 10. single

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