CLOZE TEST 1

Jill was walking to her class slowly. She was worried ___1___ the History test she would
have to ___2___ that morning. As she was reaching the classroom, a piece of paper
suddenly fluttered down and ___3___ near her feet. As Jill glanced down at the paper, her
heart nearly ___4___ a beat. It was the History test paper complete ___5___ answers !

Jill's very first thought was not to ___6___ anyone about what she had found. She would
memorize ___7___ the answers and do extremely ___8___ in the test. After some hard
thinking, however, she knew that it would be a very ___9___ thing to do. Besides, it would
not be ___10___ to her classmates. In the ___11___ , Jill returned the paper to her History
teacher, Miss James.

"Thanks, Jill. I have been searching high and ___12___ for it," said the teacher.

"I...I've read all the questions ___13___, Miss James," Jill confessed.

Miss James ___14___ her not to worry as she would think of new questions for the test. Jill's
___15___ sank. She was half hoping that the test ___16___ be cancelled. Nevertheless, she
did her best in the new test later that day.

A few days later, the test papers were ___17___ to the class. Go her pleasant surprise, Jill
discovered that she had ___18___ eighty marks.

"You know something," she told her friends. "I could easily have scored ___19___ marks if I
had cheated on this test. But I wouldn't be as pleased as I am ___20___ with the eighty
marks I obtained."

CLOZE TEST 2

It was midnight when the last guest left. I sighed heavily as I looked around. The living room
was ___1___ of cigarette smell and stale perfume. As I looked around, I ___2___ wet
patches of spilt beer on my best Persian carpet. My antique vases were totally smashed.
They had even ___3___ my antique oak tables as ashtrays. These guests of ___4___ had
done their best to destroy my expensively decorated living room ! What a night this had
turned ___5___ to be.

I shook my head. The mess would ___6___ hours to clear. Getting ___7___ of the smell
would require days. My housekeeper would had resigned ___8___ the spot if she saw the
mess. i had to do ___9___ fast. I could not afford to lose her ___10___ she is the best cook I
___11___ ever had

I had no choice. I went to the bookshelf, took ___12___ the book 'The Evolution of Man' by
Charles Darwin and pressed on the wall behind ___13___ . A small hole in the wall appeared
___14___ my right. I reached ___15___ and took out a long object. Then I waved it in the
___16___. The room started to clean itself ___17___ . Even the antique vases started fitting
themselves ___18___ so well that one could not tell they had been ___19___. As you might
have guessed by ___20___, the long object is a wand, and I am what they call a witch.
 Cloze Test 3

"Don't forget the sandwiches!" Mother reminded me. We had been ___1___ for this family
picnic for two days. Everybody, ___2___ my little brother, had been looking ___3___ to it.

All of a sudden, dark clouds started to ___4___ in the sky. Soon, it began to drizzle, and
___5___ long, it was pouring ___6___ and dogs. The picnic ___7___ to be cancelled.

I was sulking on the sofa ___8___ Mother suggested, "Why ___9___ we clean up the house
?" Soon, everyone was ___10___ doing something. We dusted the furniture and ___11___
away old magazines. The store room was purged ___12___ many things we had
conveniently stashed ___13___ inside. Father painted the cabinet, ___14___ he had always
said he would do but had never got round to doing. I found many old photographs and had
a good laugh ___15___ them. My little brother polished the glass table ___16___ well that
we could see our reflections ___17___ it clearly.

At the end of the day, we were all exhausted. ___18___ the family gathered round the
dining table ___19___ a dinner of pizza, we were glad that the day had turned ___20___
well.

Cloze Test 4

James threw his hands ___1___ in frustration.

"Mum ! I thought I told you ___2___ I didn't want anybody to touch my things. Now I can't
even ___3___ my socks."

Mother, ___4___ was hanging up the laundry in the garden, replied, "They're in the second
drawer ___5___ your cupboard. Your jeans are ___6___ too."

James was horrified. "You ___7___ my jeans ! Mum, the signatures Michael, Kelvin and
Eugene ___8___ on it ... do you know ___9___ they are still there ?"

Mother shrugged her ___10___ . She looked genuinely puzzle. "Why, I didn't notice. The
water did look very blue ..."

James went into his room, pulled ___11___ the second drawer and took out a pair of jeans.
They were ___12___ ! All the precious things his best friends had scribbled ___13___ his
jeans were ___14___ just patches of colour. Oh, why didn't she just ___15___ his things
alone ? She hated his Bon Jovi and Madonna posters and always told him ___16___
disgusting they looked. She also always ___17___ the opportunity, whenever he was
___18___, to go into his room and 'put every in ___19___', as she puts it. To James, it was
___20___ like messing it up.
 Cloze Test 5

It was a hot afternoon. The scorching sun ___1___ mercilessly on the little village. As usual,
the place was quiet. I groaned to myself as I hastily wiped ___2___ the perspiration on my
forehead. I would never get home ___3___ this heat.

As I walked along the main road, a dog ___4___ rushing at me from an alley. It has foam all
over ___5___ mouth. ___6___ shouted:

" ___7___ cover ! Rabies ! Mad dog !"

On hearing that, I quickly glanced ___8___. All the doors to the houses were bolted. No
windows were ___9___ either. Nobody was ___10___ any chances. I saw a tree nearby. I
ran to it and started ___11___, manfully ignoring the painful ___12___ of the ants in the
tree.

"I would rather be bitten by these insects ___13___ by a slavering dog," I thought at that
time.

Two men holding a wire noose on a long pole walked stealthily ___14___ the dog. They
gauged the distance between them and the dog and neatly lassoed the animal. The dog
struggled to ___15___ itself ___16___ the wire was thick and strong. Most importantly, the
wire did not ___17___.

That night, and ___18___ many nights after that, my bottom was ___19___ sore for me to
sit down. Maybe being bitten by the dog would have hurt ___20___ after all !

Cloze Test 6

I am sure many of you remember the movie 'King Kong'. In the movie, a giant gorilla enters
the ___1___ of New York and terrorizes the people ___2___ Contrary to ___3___ many
people think, real gorillas are not violent and brutal beasts ___4___ all. In fact, they are
gentle and shy ___5___ nature. Neither do gorillas go ___6___ killing humans or animals for
___7___. Instead, they are vegetarians and they ___8___ mainly on a diet of leaves, stems,
roots and flowers.

Gorillas will only attack ___9___ they feel threatened. This is why zoologists ___10___ these
animals are careful not to observe them ___11___ binoculars for long periods of time.

Today, gorillas living ___12___ the wild face many threats. This is because many of the
forests in the world are being cut ___13___. Because the natural habitats ___14___ these
creatures are being destroyed, gorillas face the ___15___ of extinction in the future.
___16___ help save the gorillas from extinction, some of these animals are bred in captivity
in zoos all ___17___ the world. The Singapore Zoological Gardens obtained ___18___ first
pair of gorillas in 1983. The two gorillas, ___19___ names were Saul and Goliath, were a
___20___ from the Bristol Zoo in England.