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SECTION 02 · Gaps in a connected text

Cloze test

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How to solve: Cloze testA connected text with numbered gaps; choose a, b, c or d for each gap.

What it tests

Grammar in context: tenses and their sequence, modal verbs, linking words, verb patterns and fixed phrases.

In the exam: part II, 17 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the whole paragraph first — the time frame (past, present, future) is often set by the sentences around the gap.
  2. Look at what comes right before and after the gap: a subject, an auxiliary, a preposition, “to”…
  3. Decide what kind of word fits (verb form, linking word, preposition) before looking at the options.
  4. Check time signals: ago, since, by the time, already, while, tomorrow.
  5. Read the sentence again with your answer — it must sound complete and logical.

Watch out for

  • Choosing a tense from the sentence alone when the paragraph is clearly in the past.
  • Mixing up similar forms: had done / has done / did, to do / doing.
  • Linking words with opposite meaning: because / although, so / but.

Example

By the time we arrived, the film (1)____. a) has started b) had started c) starts d) was starting

b) had started — “by the time we arrived” marks a past moment; the film started before it, so we need the past perfect.

Exercise 30
EXERCISE TEXT

Ronaldo was the younger child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro who was a cook and José Dinis Aveiro who was a municipal gardener and 1a lot… The name Ronaldo 2from US President Ronald Reagan who was a favorite actor of his father's. Ronaldo's childhood passed in a working class neighborhood. He lived in a tin roofed small house that overlooked the ocean. Ronaldo's life was very hard in his early days. To improve the financial status and to feed the children, Ronaldo's mother worked as a cleaner and cook. At the age of 10, Ronaldo became a phenomenon kid who only 3for soccer. Now he 4 beconsidered the best footballer in the world.

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