Multiple Choice Cloze Exercise 21

1. You seem a strong candidate Mr. Williams but you don't quite our requirements for this post.
a. meet
b. reach
c. achieve
d. gain

2. by both financial and emotional problems, the father decided he had had enough and slipped away from the house quietly at dawn.
a. pressured
b. beset
c. filled
d. drowned

3. I felt let down by a very unsupportive boardroom, by the very chairman himself, Wilson Gray. I had no choice but to resign.
a. at most
b. not least
c. notwithstanding
d. henceforth

4. If they ask you about me, don't that you know where I am, OK?
a. let on
b. give in
c. give on
d. let in

5. Just remember that August in Australia is with a North American December, though it doesn't snow!
a. on level
b. on a par
c. evens
d. compared

6. A(n) diamond such as this would fetch over one hundred thousand if put up for auction.
a. error free
b. consistent
c. flawless
d. persistent

7. Only when explorers finally penetrated the forests of Central and South America were these ruins revealed to the world at last.
a. solid
b. heavy
c. tangled
d. dense

8. The average Siberian Stoat family group one male, two or three females and the young of all of the females.
a. consists
b. constituting
c. comprises
d. makes up