1st cloze test

Hello everybody!

Welcome to this blog, which will be useful for you for the whole academic year.

Here you have the first cloze test you can do to start... enjoy it!

KILL YOUR TV

Fill in all the gaps with the correct word from the box. There are four extra words that you will not need to use.

ARE                CHILD                    DO                      EXCITED                EXCITING FRIGHTENING             FRIGHTENED             JUST                  LIKE MAKE                 MANY                     MORE             MUCH THAN          THE              SPEND

           Could you live without televisión for a week? That’s what millions of people __________ every April as part of TV Turnoff Week, which is organised by anti-television groups _________ NoTV.com and White Dot.

           “Sure, TV can sometimes be fun and ____________, especially when you’re tired at the end of the day,” says Rudy Matthews from NoTV.com, “but most of the time it’s  __________ boring. We want people to turn off the TV for a week and do something  _______________ interesting instead.”

           You may be surprised how _______________ television we watch. The average American family watches TV for 7 hours and 40 minutes every day and British men watch 17 hours a week (British women watch “only” 24 hours). This means we _______________ over ten years of our life watching TV – what a _________________  thought.

                      Many people  _________________ worried about how much TV children watch. Every American ___________ sees 16,000 murders on TV before he or she is 18, and 20,000 adverts every year. Teacher Susan Walsh thinks this is a problem. “Children in ___________ USA spend more time watching TV _____________  in school and that’s very worrying.”

           TV Turnoff Week started in the USA in 1995 and now happens every year in the UK, France, Holland, and Australia. More than 25 million people have turned off their TV, so why don’t you do the same?

Have a nice day! :)