A cloze test is an exercise where certain words are removed from a text and participants must fill in the missing words. Cloze tests require understanding context and vocabulary to identify the correct missing words. They are commonly used to assess language learning and instruction for native and non-native speakers.

1. CLOZE TEST

2. A cloze test (also cloze deletion test) is an exercise, test, or
assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words
removed (cloze text), where the participant is asked to
replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to
understand context and vocabulary.
A cloze test (also cloze deletion test) is an exercise, test, or
assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words
removed (cloze text), where the participant is asked to
replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to
understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the
correct words or type of words that belong in the deleted
passages of a text. This exercise is commonly administered
for the assessment of native and second language learning
and instruction.

3. Fill in the blanks with ONE word only:
Exercise1-(eyes, haired, is, he, food, them, their, got )
Alex Ferguson is a forty-two year old over-weight farmer. His wife Darry
is a thirty-nine year old housewife. They have __________(1) three bright
obese children. __________(2) names are Timmy, Penny and Carlos. Timmy
__________(3) a six-year old, round faced, freckled, ginger __________(4)
boy. He has got gig, brown ______(5). Penny is an 8 year old, short
straight haired, fair and tall girl. She’s got green eyes like her mother.
Carlos is an 11 year old curly haired, scruffy boy. __________(6) has got
glasses. They all like eating, so Darry is usually in the kitchen to cook
delicious __________(7) for __________(8).

4. Exercise2-(name, has, their, school, is, am, they)
I __________(1) Murat Tan. I go to Atatürk High
School. My school __________(2) near my house
so I usually walk to __________(3). I have many
friends. My best friend’s __________(4) is Aylin.
She__________(5) got twin sisters. __________(6)
names are Burcu and Deniz. __________(7) are in
class 1.

5. Answerkey-
Exercise1-
1. got 2. Their 3. is 4. haired 5. eyes 6. He 7. food 8.
them
Exercise2-
1. am 2. is 3. school 4. name 5. has 6. Their 7. They.

6. Read the article below and decide which answer best fits each space:
If you are looking at a modern laptop computer, it's hard to believe that
computers were once huge devices(1) ____________ only to government or big
businesses. Today's computers are often not much bigger than a typewriter and
are taken for (2) _________ in homes, schools, and offices. Technological (3)
____________ made the small personal computer possible, but two electronic
whiz kids working in a garage actually brought it about. Steven Jobs and
Stephen Wozniak first met at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics firm in California.
Jobs was a high-school student when William Hewlett, the president, took him
(4) ____________ as a summer employee. Wozniak, a college dropout, was also
working there, and the two got along right away. Jobs and Wozniak went
separate ways in 1972. When they got together again in 1974, Wozniak was
spending a lot of time with a local computer club, and he (5) ____________ Jobs
to join the group. Jobs immediately saw the (6) ____________ for a small
computer. He (7) ____________ up with Wozniak, a brilliant engineer, to build
one. The two designed the Apple I computer in Jobs's bedroom, and they put
the prototype (8) ____________ in his garage. With $1,300 in capital (9)
____________ by selling Jobs's car and Wozniak's scientific calculator, they set
up their first production line. Apple I, which they brought out in 1976, had
sales of $600, a(n) (10) ____________ beginning. By 1980, Apple Computers,
which had started four years earlier as a project in a garage, had a market
value of $1.2 billion.

7. 1. Ready/ accessible/ possible/ available
2. Granted/ free/ common/ admissible
3. Attacks/ thrusts/ advances/ exploits
4. Up/ on/ in/ off
5. Convinced/ impressed/ imposed/ confirmed
6. Ability/ potential/ essence/ capacity
7. Teamed/ collected/ gathered/ met
8. Up/ on/ together/ along
9. Pawned/ attracted/ raised/ realized
10. Aspiring/ advancing/ promising/ speeding