ENG 101

LESSON 17
Ex: 1. A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The
examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt 1____ strictly laid
down by 2 _____ syllabus, so the student 3____ ___ only what is prescribed.
Examinations 4 ______ not motivate a student 5______ read widely; they 6_____ his
reading. They do 7__ encourage him to seek 8______ knowledge; they narrow the
9______ of study.
They lower 10_____ standards of teaching, for 11______ deprive the teacher of
12_____ freedom. Teachers themselves are 13___ judged by examination by results,
14_____ instead of teaching their 15,_____ they are reduce to 16____ their students in
the 17______ of taking examinations which 18______ despise. The most successful
19_______ are not always the 20_____ educated. They are merely the best trained in
the technique of working under stress and strain.
Ex : 2. Global warming is by no means a new phenomenon: it has been around since
the creation of Planet Earth itself. At fist the process was beneficial: it brought Earth out
of the ice ages into a time when humanity could survive on it. Now, however, it has
become a problem. 1 ____ has happened in 2 _____ ways, the ‘runway’ 3
______effect and ozone 4 _____depletion. This is 5 ____ the greenhouse effect 6
______: ordinarily
energy from 7____ Sun reaches the 8 _____ and is reflected 9 _____ into space, but 10
____ greenhouse gases forming layer around the planet, the reflection process cannot
take place and the energy is trapped, heating up the atmosphere.
(Saifullah & Ismail)
Ex : 3 Selected Deletion Cloze
Notice the blanks are not after a fixed number of words.
My dear children,
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been here for a month. The time passes so quickly and
there’s so much to do. I’ve managed to see all the members of the family. I 1 ______as
much time as I can with the children. Last week I 2 ____-Mark and Michelle to the circus.
3 ______never been before as they live quite far from the nearest city and their parents
4 _____ have time to drive them there. I 5 ________ that’s what grandmothers are for.At
any 6 _____ Susan lent me her car - it’s a brand 7 _____ bright red Mini. We left early in
the morning so as to make a day of 8 ____.
In the morning we 9 _____ to the zoo and in the afternoon to the circus.
As 10 _____can imagine, the children were very excited. They loved everything. Mark
11 _____ the wild animals the most exciting and Michelle is 12 _____ to be an acrobat
when she grows 13______.
After we’d been there for about two hours we 14 ______ an announcement over the
loudspeaker. The owner of the red Mini, number PUR 727V, 15 ______ requested to
come to the manager’s office 16 _________. Naturally, I didn’t know the number of 17
___________ car so I left the children and went to the manager’s office to 18 _____ out
if it was our car.
The manager looked very upset and 19______________________. No one else had
answered his call so I assumed correctly that it was Susan’s car.
20___________________that I’d left the lights on, or parked in 21 ________way, I
wasn’t 22 ________concerned, but I didn’t know why the manager looked so disturbed.
He began to 23 _________what happened and it took me some time to understand 24
______confused explanation.
25 ____appears that the elephants are trained to sit on red boxes. One of the elephants
26 _____escaped and when he saw the 27 ______red car he promptly sat on
28______! As you can imagine the car looked a mess. One side was squashed 29
________but it was still possible to drive. The manager assured 30 _____that the circus
would pay for the 31________. He couldn’t have been more apologetic.
The children were very 32 _______ and giggled about the incident all the way home. 33
__________before we got there, we 34 _________the scene of a serious accident.
About a mile 35 _______on a policeman stopped us and asked if we’d 36
_________involved in the accident. I wish I had a 37 _______of his face when I told him
what had happened 38 ______the car.
I think he wanted to arrest me for drunken driving! Fortunately the 39 ______were there
to back me up.40 ______are you managing without me? please don’t 41 ______to water
my plants. I’m planning to leave here 42____ the end of the month.
My love to you all

Mom
(Cloze in Class: Moller & Whiteson)
Over population is one of the most serious problems facing the world today. The world’s
exploding population , even more growing pains for already crowded
areas. new United Nations study that by the year five billion persons
will added to the 6.5
in the world today. more troubling than the number of inhabitants
are estimate of where they will be concentrated.
(Advanced Reading Skills)
Markstein & Hirasawa
If there were a perfect robot, what would it be like? Imagine a ______able to wax
the_____, wash the_____, and iron the _____,not to mention the fact that it would be
able to entertain, learn, and perform several other____. What a time-saver a self-
ambulatory robot would be. Who wouldn’t want to sit back and relax while a robot did the
house close?
If I were to design my own robot it would need to do more than just the everyday house
_____like making the ____ and dusting the ____. First of all, it would need to be
intellectual. It would need to be able to reason, understand, and carry out other _____ of
mental activity, such as helping me complete difficult math _____ or proofreading my
English ______ for grammatical or spelling _____. Intellect would be the key quality of
my personalized robot.
Oliver is a film about an orphan 1 _____ . The story 2 _______ Charles Dickens, the
famous novelist. It 3 ________ in England during the 4__________. Oliver, 5________
escapes from a workhouse and 6_________ London. 7__________ he meets the
villian, Bill Sykes, and Nancy, his girl friend, the pickpocket, artful Dodger, and Fagin, the
old beggar.
8___________, the beggar and the pickpocket teach him 9_________ to survive, but
then the police. 10________ The judge lets him 11____________ with his uncle, Mr.
Brownlow, a 12__________ man. 13___________ Bill sykes is killed, and Oliver goes to
14_____________ happily 15___________ uncle. It’s such an 16_________ and
17__________ story about a boy’s 18___________ for 19________ that nobody should
20______.
A robot is a machine designed to do tasks usually / by people. …done...Robots already
do / jobs. They …many... weld parts and spray paint in car …...
factories. They do dangerous work 1…... as handling explosives. Some even …...
in space and under the ocean. 2…...hard working machines usually 3…...
don’t have human shapes. If I …... were to design my own robot …...
it would need to do than just 4 …...household chores. My robot will be …...
a masterpiece, to perform almost 5 …...any task with agile precision. It will …...
be able to solve tough problems a 6…..matter of seconds that would …...
normally human beings hours to 7…... complete. It will use intelligence and …...
agility to perform numerous tasks. …...My robot will be maid, my business 8…...
partner and my library rolled into 9…...unique machine. There is but 10….
problem. How many decades until …...this ideal robot is actually built? …...