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Level 5: First Certificate/Advanced >> Cloze/Gap Fill Worksheets >> To do well in this the gap-fill exercise, your students will need to think about the relationship between different grammatical items in the English language. Each sentence is missing one word.

Open Cloze Worksheet 9

For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully at the words both before and after each space.

1. You can come to the party if you want, __BUT/THOUGH/ALTHOUGH__ you are not expected to come.

2. I can't make __UP__ my mind. Should I buy the red or the blue dress?

3. Why didn't I choose the blue dress? Look, Connie is wearing exactly the __SAME__ color!

4. It wasn't __UNTIL__ 1930 that the ninth planet Pluto was discovered.

5. The company will hold interviews next week in an __EFFORT__ to fill the position of Overseas Sales Manager.

6. Landing __AT__ Miami airport for the first time, the first thing you notice is how lush the surrounding vegetation is.

7. __THOUGH__ it's true your performance in the job has been great, you still have to work hard to improve your punctuality.

8. Do you remember that colleague of mine __WHOSE__ wife divorced him last year?