Cloze Exercises For High School Students

Cloze Exercises

Cloze Exercises (a) Unlucky adventure

How well I remember the day I borrowed by father’s car (1) …………. his consent! I had found the keys on the table where he had left (2) ……………. and in a moment, was sitting in the driving seat, ready to (3) ………… on the ignition. The engine roared (4) ………………. Life, I put it in reverse (5) ………….. the handbrake and slowly reversed out of the garage. Unfortunately, my friend Robert would (6) …………… that particular moment to decide to show me his new bicycle. As he rode through the gateway there was a crash and the sound of splintering (7) …………… It will take several weeks’ pocket-money to (8) …………… for that damage!

Answer key

• Without
• Them
• Turn
• Into
• Released
• Take
• Metal
• Pay

Cloze Exercises (b) Lesson learnt

“Quick John, run (1) ………….. it!” My friend and (2) ………………… were already late for school and (3) …………….. the time the two of us reached the bus-stop the bus had gone. We had to walk all the way to school. When we eventually (4) …………….. we were wet through and had to sit in our soaking clothes all morning. That evening I (5) ……………. a hot shower and went to bed immediately afterwards. My mother called the family (6) ………………….to examine me, and he diagnosed a high fever and a bad cold. The week I spent in bed passed very slowly. A daily routine of meals, newspapers, books and (7) …………….to the radio was a welcome change to begin (8) ……………. but it soon became monotonous, and I heard with regret all the fun and the games I was (9) ………….. at school. When I am better, you can be sure I will never be late for school (10) …………………

Answer key

• for
• i
• by
• reached
• took
• doctor
• listening
• with
• missing
• again

Cloze Exercises (c) Singapore

In Singapore, people from all walks of (1) ………….. live close to one (2) ……………… For (3) …………………., near where I live people do a variety of jobs, (4) ………………… from hawkers to bank managers. Mr. Hock is a hawker who has to visit the market every morning to buy food for his stall. This is quite unusual among Singaporeans as buying from the market is (5) ………………. done by women. Our immediate neighbour, Mr. Kim, works (6) ……….. the day as a clerk in the city but, when evening comes, (7) …………. other men who go home to eat and relax by ‘putting their (8) …………… up’. He has a second job at the stock exchange. (9) ………….. it is day time in New York, dealers are obliged to sit up all night to follow the movements of the market. And yet the local trader and the financier live (10) ………………….. 100m meters of each other!

Answer Key

• life
• another
• instance
• ranging
• usually
• during
• joins
• feet
• when
• within

Cloze Exercises (d) Baking a Cake

My friend Julie and I decided to bake a cake for the fun of (1) …………. At (2) …………….. we argued about what (3) ………………. of cake we should make Julie was determined to bake a chocolate cake and in the end she won the (4) …………… Reluctantly, I set about whisking the eggs. Some of the egg white splashed onto her face, and she grabbed a handful of flour and (5) ………….. it at me. In (6) …………… of time the kitchen was a scene of utter confusion as we threw eggs, flour, sugar and baking powder (7) ……… each other. When there was nothing (8) ……………… to throw we stopped, exhausted. What a sight we both looked! Suddenly, we both (9) ……………… into laughter until, (10) …………….around the kitchen, we saw what a mess there was to clear up before Julie’s mother came home!

Answer Key

• it
• first
• kind
• argument
• flung
• course
• at
• left
• burst
• looking

Cloze Exercises (e) Dead Pony Sale

Our beloved pony had died, so we (1) …………… an advertisement in the classified section of our local paper to sell his equipment. “Pony saddle and bridle. $60.” Because the paper added a (2) …………. to the advertisement, (3) ………… read instead: “Pony, saddle and bridle. $60.” We (4) ………. many enquiries because the price seemed so low. Our daughter, Alison, didn’t know about the mistake and, when she (5) …………… the phone, one (6) ………….. went much like this:

Caller: “I’m calling in (7) ………. to the advertisement in the paper. That is an extremely low price for a pony, saddle and bridle. What is (8) …….. with the pony? It sounds too good to be (9)…………”

Alison: “Oh.. he is dead.”

There was a long (10) …………. Then, without another word, the caller hung up.

Answer Key

• placed
• comma
• it
• received
• answered
• call
• response
• wrong
• true
• pause