B2 First

Multiple Choice Cloze Exercise 14

For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best and write THE CORRECT LETTER into the empty box. Also think about why the other three answers are not possible.


1. I was too scared to approach the house in the dark. I couldn't the courage and remembered all the stories about ghosts being seen there.
a. get
b. see
c. find
d. experience

2. Did you hear him talk about the Amazon rain forest last night. He is a very man and you can always learn so much speaking to him.
a. well known
b. all knowing
c. knowledgeable
d. know-it-all

3. You can go to any of the restaurants along the riverfront from "The Grand Eatery" which is too expensive.
a. apart
b. excluding
c. except
d. but

4. I got lost driving back from work again. That it three times this month! I need to buy a street map.
a. makes
b. leaves
c. totals
d. gives

5. The authorities want to build a new lake in Proctor Park, which the residential and commercial districts of the city.
a. disconnects
b. splits
c. separates
d. parts

6. Be careful of the high winds on that stretch of road along the coast.
a. horizontal
b. straight
c. open
d. fast

7. Mike has been really lucky over the last five years with his job. He now earns to double what he was earning when he started.
a. near
b. almost
c. next
d. close

8. Each farmworker was given a small of land and was then expected to give half of the food produced to the landowner.
a. line
b. plot
c. measure
d. breadth

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