Thursday, 23 April 2015

CLOZE TEST:ARTISTS AND WRITERS

Here you have a cloze test, fill in the gaps with the correct word from the ones in the chart, there are some words which you can use more than once. There are three extra words which you don't need to use.
The key is below the test.
Have a nice day! :)


ARTISTS AND WRITERS


IN       FOR (x2)      ON     TOO      OF        WOULD (x3)     SOMETHING     WAS (x2)      ANYTHING       WHERE      READING     BY     IF     ENOUGH     AND     HAS      LIKED      GOING     SHOULD



I have always admired people like artists, writers and composers (1) ________ being able to work (2) ________ their own, with no one else around. Most (3) ________ my friends all work with other people in shops and so on, and they tell me that they (4) ________ never get (5) ________ done if they worked alone. I´m not sure that all artists and writers do, either. I (6) ________ born in a small village in the country (7) ________ everyone knew everyone else: that is, they knew everyone except a writer who kept himself to himself. (8) ________ the time I was old (9) ________ to learn people´s names, he (10) ________ lived in the village (11) ________ at least twenty years, but the villagers still regarded him as a stranger! Every morning he (12) ________ walk down to the local shops (13) ________ do his shopping, and although he (14) ________ greeting everyone he met, only two or three would return his greeting. Just occasionally, someone (15) ________ feel curious enough to ask him what he (16) ________ doing, and every time his answer would be the same: “I´m still writing the book. It (17) ________ have been finished last year, but I can´t get it right”. And that was all we ever learned about him. Because no one had ever visited his house, either, I remember once (18) ________ up to the house with three or four boys to see (19) ________ we could see what he did. We crept up to the window trembling and looked in, expecting to see our writer typing furiously at his desk. Instead, he was sitting in an armchair (20) ________ a paper.

KEY
1. for 
2. on 
3. of 
4. would 
5. anything 
6. was 
7. where 
8. By 
9. enough 
10. has 
11. for 
12. would 
13. and 
14. liked 
15. would 
16. was 
17. should 
18. going 
19. if 
20. reading



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