Best Cloze Passages for OL

 About Cloze Passages: 

  The cloze passage is the 11th question on the OL English language paper. The question carries 7 marks (14 blanks; 1/2 mark for each). 

Well, most students always grumble that the question consumes time and it is challenging. This means you lack practice in answering cloze passages. I also find that most English language teachers also are reluctant to expose children to cloze passages. 

Attempting a cloze passage involves intense brain work. It requires a knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and related techniques. More than anything else , 'patience'. Really, a cloze passage put your 'patience' on test. 

My students, you can practice cloze passages at home. You can do it for yourself. First, take it as a game. 

Well, you can do it the way I mention below. Try it and comment if it works.

Step 01: Select a suitable passage depending on your language proficiency. Make sure that the passage is an appealing one to you. I recommend a short story at first. Write it on a paper or just photocopy it.

Step 02: Read the passage several times until you get some idea of the theme. You may use a dictionary if you find any new words. 

Step 03: Leave the first one or two sentences and mark words after every four , five or six words. Then remove the words and write them down on a separate paper. 

Step 04: Now jumble the words you have removed as you please. 

Step 05: Now you have a cloze passage with you. Try to insert the words. Check your answers yourself with the list of words you took down in order at first. 

Note: while attempting to insert the words try to associate the words with the words immediately around the blank. 

 e.g.  If there is a blank with the article 'an' , your answer MUST be a word beginning with a VOWEL. 

As you practice you will catch up your own techniques. 

Well, you can inform me later.

Bye.

Sajendra Kumara

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Find scores of cloze passages among the pages of the two Steps to Brilliance Books with answers. The writer is a government teacher at a school in Nittambuwa. 

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Teachers of the 90s.

ACTIVITY 01: Fill in the blanks with the words given within brackets. 

  A baby is born without teeth. Teeth only begin to 1)_____ after the baby is a 2)______months old. When a 3)______ is born it cannot 4)_______ solid foods; it can 5)_______ feed on milk and 6)________liquids. 

 When it grows 7)_________little older, a baby 8)________ teeth to eat solid 9)______. At the age of 10)________ three, a child has a 11)_______ of about twenty teeth. 12)________teeth are called baby 13)______. 

 At the age of 14)________, the milk teeth fall 15)_______and new teeth appear in the gaps. There are thirty two teeth in this second set, which are called permanent teeth. If they are looked after properly, they will last a life time

( few / a / chew / set / baby / six / only / about/ needs / other / grow / these / out / teeth / food )

Note: 

1. Read the passage once or twice until it is familiar.

2. In the second reading try to associate the words given in the list with the blanks.

3. Pay attention to the words around the blanks. 
4. Think of the word classes. 

         

Sajendra Kumara

ACTIVITY 02: Model Cloze Passage for OL

It is very important that members of a society always get together in day-to-day activities of that society. In my view, when 1) .......... of a society work 2).......... they develop good relationships. 3)............ relationships they develop love 4)............. affection. I also feel 5)............ good relationships promote mutual 6............... If people have relationships 7) ............ learn to be cooperative. 8)......... also learn to tolerate 9)............ As I see it, 10) .............. together is the foundation for peace. 

💓 [ that / together / working / understanding / members / others / they / through / and  / they ] 

Activity 03: Complete the following text with the words given within brackets. 
                                         Titanic
The RMS Titanic was a cruise ship that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. It is one of 1)…...…. deadliest ship disasters in the 2)…………. For its first trip Titanic 3) ................ to sail from Southampton, England 4)...……... New York City, USA. At the time, 5)……….. was the largest ship ever 6)…………….. The ship even had watertight 7)………….. for safety. Many thought Titanic 8)………. unsinkable. The ship left Southampton 9)………... April 10,1912. There were 2,435 10) ………….. onboard. 

[was - built - to - it - history -people-on -the - was  - compartments] -

Activity 04: Complete the following text with the words given within brackets.

 

Like telephone, television is a wonderful 1)............... of science after the 2) .............. of electricity. Today, television 3)............. an important means of 4)................. and education. It has 5)............ advantages of both radio 6)............ cinema. We can see 7)................... and listen to their 8).............. simultaneously. Television was first 9)................ by a famous Scottish 10) ................ called Baird. He demonstrated 11).............. invention at the Royal 12)................ of Great Britain in 13)............. .  The mechanism of the 14) ...................... is very complex. Originally only black and white pictures were produced on television. 

  [scientist -entertainment - and - invention -Institute - invented -pictures - 1926 - is - the - gift - his - conversations - television ]

Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 05: Complete the following text with the words given within brackets.

People from all over the world like the taste of chocolate. 1).............. is a refreshment that 2)................ people enjoy as a 3)............... or snack. Did 4) ............... ever grab a chocolate 5) ....................... at the store when 6) ................. were checking out groceries 7)................. your mom or dad? 8) ................. you ever buy a 9) ................... bar at the gas 10) ...................... when your parents stopped 11) .................... buy gas? Did you 12)........... get to pick out 13) ................. chocolate candy bar at 14) .................... basketball game or a 15)soccer game? Some people like dark chocolate and some people like light chocolate. Some others like plain chocolate.

[  ever - you - you - many - a - with - chocolate - to - dessert- bar - soccer - chocolate - station - a - did ]

A book for practicing describing graphs. 

Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 06: Complete the following text with the words given within brackets.

Bees live in a house that is called a hive. There 1) ............ three kinds of bees: 2)....................., drones and queens. Only 3) .............. queen can live in 4) ................... hive. If she is 5) .................. or dead , the other 6) ................ will stop their work. 7) .............. are very wise and 8) ................ little creatures. They all 9) ................... together to build cells 10) ................. wax for their honey. 11) ................ bee takes its proper 12) .............. and does its own 13) ................... . Some go out and 14) ................. honey from the flowers; others stay at home and work inside the hive. 

[ work- join-  each - each- are - bees -gather-  one - lost- place -workers - busy - bees - of ]

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Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 07:

Complete the following text with the words given within brackets.

Stevie Wonder is an American pop singer and musician. He has had many hit 1) ........... and is very popular all 2).................. the world. Stevie is blind.  3) ............. Stevie Wonder started a campaign 4) .............. try to put an end 5)............... young people driving cars after 6) .................. alcohol. He has released a 7) ................ called 'Don't Drive Drunk' , and 8) .......... posed for a poster which 9) ......... be distributed to 16,000 high 10) ............. in the United States.  

[ has - records - schools - over - song - will - to - to - drinking - recently ]

Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 08: 

Complete the following text with the words given within brackets.

Food helps us give energy. It has a long 1) ______ to make before all the 2)______ are taken into the body. 3) ______ it is put into the 4)_____ and chewed or masticated by 5) ____ teeth, and mixed with saliva. 6) ______ is made in the salivary 7)____ in the mouth, and it 8)______ chemicals called enzymes which begin 9)______ digest the food. The food 10)_____ then swallowed and goes down 11)____ esophagus into the stomach. It 12)____ then mixed with more enzymes 13)_____ is broken down into fats, 14)_______ and amino acids. Food takes up to six hours to be digested. 

[ the  -  mouth - is - glands -  nutrients - and - saliva - journey - glucose - the -first- contains - is - to ] 

cloze passage activity for OL: free activities  

Activity 09: 

Charles Dickens was a famous writer. He wrote his 1)_____ about one hundred and 2) _____ years ago. He was 3) ____ angry about the 4)_______ poor people lived in 5) _____ days. Very poor people 6) _____ to live in special 7)______ called "workhouses". These workhouses 8)______ really like prisons. The 9) ______ people in them made 10)____ and tables or mail 11)_____ for the government offices, 12)____ they were given no 13) ______ and very little food. 14) ______ were treated very badly.

 [ but - children - books - houses - chairs -way - had - sacks - those - fifty - very -were -poor- money]

Cloze Passage for OL: Question No. 14

Activity 10:

Lady birds are brightly coloured 1)____which belong to the 2)____ family. They are hardly 3)_____ than 10 mm. in size. 4)____ is one of the most 5)___insects of many a 6) _____ . Ladybirds are found worldwide. 7)_____ have an appealing appearance 8)____compared to most members 9)_____the beetle family. Even 10) _____ who generally hate beetles 11)____lady birds to be 12)____ . It is a tiny 13) ______ shaped winged insect with 14)_____wings attached to the body. 

[ they - appealing - it - oval - insects - six - of - beetle - find - more - when - people - child - favourite ]

Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 11: 

Cloze Passage for OL

Activity 12 

Cloze passage for OL

Activity 13

Cloze passage for OL: Question 11

Activity 14 

       Answers: currents/the/cell/it/begin/needed/itself/will/infect/viruses/as/but/on/they

Activity 15 :

Model Cloze Passage for OL: Question number 14

Activity 16 Next 

                                 To be continued....keep in touch 
 

 

 Answers: 

Act: 4 : 1) gift 2) invention 3) is 4) entertainment 5) the 6)  and  7) pictures 8) conversations 9) invented 10) scientist 11) his 12) Institute 13) 1926 14) television  

Act 5: 1)chocolate 2) many 3) dessert 4)  you 5) bar  6)  you  7) with  8)  did  9) chocolate 10)  station  11) to 12)ever  13) a  14) a  15) soccer 

Act 6: 1) are 2) workers 3)  one 4) each 5) lost 6) bees 7) bees 8) busy 9) join 10) of 11) each 12) place 13)  work 14) gather 

Act 7: 1)records 2)over 3)recently 4)to 5)to 6)drinking 7)song 8)has 9)will 10)schools

Act 8: 1)journey 2)nutrients 3)first 4)mouth 5)the 6)saliva 7)glands 8)contains 9)to 10)is 11)the 12)is 13)and 14)glucose 

Act 9: 1)books 2)fifty 3)very 4)way 5)those 6)had 7)houses 8)were 9)poor 10)chairs 11)sacks 12)but 13)money 14)children 
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