Friday, January 3, 2014

Reading - Cloze

Test Prep: First Certificate | Open Cloze Exercise | PraCTICE FOR fCE

Open Cloze Exercise

Read the text below and fill in the blanks with only ONE word in each space.


Sophia closed 1) door of her small flat and put 2) her briefcase. 3) usual, she had brought some work home 4) the office. She wanted to have a quick bite 5) eat and then, after spending a 6) hours working, she was looking 7) to watching a DVD or listening to some music. She was just 8) to start preparing her dinner when 9) was a knock at the door. 'Oh, no! Who on 10) could that be?' she muttered to herself. She went to the door and opened it just wide 11) to see who it was. A man 12) about sixty was standing there. It took her a moment 13) she realized who he was. He lived in the flat below. They had passed each other on the stairs once 14) twice, and had nodded to each other but never really spoken. 'Uh, sorry to bother you, but … uh … there's something I'd like to talk to you about,' he mumbled. He had a long thin face and two big front teeth that 15) him look rather like a rabbit. Sophia hesitated, but then, opening the door wider, asked him to come in. It 16) then that she noticed the dog. She hated dogs, particularly big ones, like the one she was now staring 17) .

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