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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 35
EXERCISE TEXT

Aram Khachaturian was born on 6 June 1903 in the city of Tiflis (present day Tbilisi, Georgia) in an Armenian family. His father, Yeghia (Ilya),1in Nakhichevan and moved to Tiflis at the age of 13; he owned abookbinding shop by the age of 25. His mother, Kumash, was from a village near Ordubad. Khachaturian's parents had 5 children, one daughter and four sons, of whom Aram was the youngest. Khachaturian 2primary education at Tiflis Commercial School, where he debated between a career in medicine or engineering. Khachaturian was the most renowned Armenian composer of the 20th century and the author of the first Armenian ballet, symphony, concerto, and film score. While following the established musical traditions of Russia, he broadly 3Armenian, Caucasian, Eastern and Central European, and Middle Eastern peoples' folk music in his works. He is highly regarded not only in Armenia, where he 4a "national treasure" but also all over the world.

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