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Unit 04
Cloze Test (Questions 16–20)
one passage, five blanks: grammar and vocabulary in context
Five Steps
- Read the whole passage quickly before answering — the topic and the time frame (past or present) decide many answers.
- Look at the words immediately before and after the blank: a preposition after the gap (interested ___ in?) or a noun after it (despite / although?).
- For linker blanks, decide the relation between the two sentences: contrast, cause, result, example or addition.
- Passive is very common in cloze passages about history and science: was built, are found, has been discovered.
- Re-read the sentence with your answer in it — it must sound natural.