Multiple Choice Cloze Exercise 18

1. The fish will already give this soup enough salt so you won't need to add much - maybe just a .
a. sip
b. drop
c. pinch
d. grain

2. Stop me in the back with your finger please. If you want something, just ask like everyone else!
a. prodding
b. banging
c. pinching
d. slapping

3. A good teacher must be a(n) one, always prepared to introduce new ideas and technology into the classroom.
a. inventive
b. innovative
c. reformative
d. rebellious

4. Having spent too much time playing basketball in his spare time, Roger now found he was falling the other students in the other subjects at school.
a. down
b. back
c. behind
d. over

5. Tying all the little pieces of string together to make the long chain was a slow, process which took us over six days in all.
a. laborious
b. employed
c. workmanlike
d. conscientious

6. Due to heavy snow and high winds, the Bishop Mountain Nature Park will be for at least the next few days.
a. inaccessible
b. exclusive
c. remote
d. elusive

7. I have done more than my fair of work. Now I am having a rest.
a. portion
b. ration
c. share
d. division

8. With the new bridge open across the estuary, the old car ferry was made .
a. redundant
b. unemployed
c. retired
d. extinct

9. When I say I want you to be here at six o'clock, I mean six o'clock . You cannot be late under any circumstances!
a. on the edge
b. at the moment
c. on the dot
d. in detail

10. It was 238 years ago on this day that the town was founded.
a. own
b. absolute
c. very
d. real