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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 40
EXERCISE TEXT

Since 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science 1 annual awards to people for their achievements in the movie industry. At the awards ceremony, called the “Academy Awards” or “The Oscars”, winners receive an Oscar – a small statue of a man holding a sword. The man 2 on a reel of film with five points on it. Each point represents a branch of the Academy: actors, writers, directors, producers, and technicians. Any of these people 3 receivean Oscar. No one really knows how the name Oscar originated. The most popular story is that an employee named Margaret Herrick saw the statue and said, “Why, he looks just like my uncle Oscar.” The name stuck, and it 4 official in 1939.

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