Cloze Test with Clues
Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary.
A society’s culture is (a) --- up of all of its ideas and ways of behaviour. Language, music, ideas about what is good and what is bad, ways of (b) ---, and the tools and other objects made and (c) --- by people in the society, all these are parts of a society’s culture. As studying a person’s (d) --- actions is a good way to find out information about that person, learning the important (e) --- of an entire society is a way to learn about the culture of that group. Patterns of behavior and action may (f) --- from individual to individual, class to class, society to society and country to country. These (g) --- are referred to as cultural differences. What is an appropriate mode of behavior in one culture may prove (h) --- or even rude in another culture. For example, when Latin Americans talk to each other, they (i) --- about 18 to 12 in inches apart measured nose to nose. To stand anymore away from each other while talking seems (j) --- to them.
Ans: (a) made, (b) working, (c) used, (d) repeated, (e) patterns, (f) vary, (g) differences, (h) inappropriate, (i) stand, (j) unfriendly.
Last week I went to Bagerhat with some of my intimate friends and had an (a) --- to visit Shatgombuj Mosque which is one of the most famous (b) --- beauties of Bangladesh. The mosque was built by Khan Jahan Ali in 1440. It has been (c) --- as one of the most impressive Muslim monuments in South Asia. The mosque (d) --- on sixty pillars with its seventy-seven domes. Its walls are two meter thick and the interior western wall was (e) --- with terracotta flowers and foliage. There is also a dighi by the (f) --- of the mosque. It is said that a horse was made to run before the pond was (g) ---. The mosque (h) --- be used as a prayer hall and an assembly hall. It (i) --- wonderful archaeological beauty which is a (j) --- of the 15th century.
Ans: (a) opportunity, (b) architectural, (c) described, (d) stands, (e) decorated, (f) side, (g) dug, (h) would, (i) represents, (j) signature.
The significance of reading newspapers has been observed (a) --- the dawn of its history and it cannot be (b) --- in words. The news of all that happens in the world reaches us (c) --- newspapers. The conditions of (d) --- people of the world are told through them. The (e) --- situation of a country is described in them. The (f) --- of great men of science are given publicity through newspapers too. The speeches and comments on the new measures (g) --- by governments are (h) --- in time in newspapers. We can learn about the latest political movements and changes in governments and (i) --- politics and affairs going through the international page. A student can also be (j) --- from a newspaper.
Ans: (a) since, (b) described, (c) through, (d) various, (e) economic, (f) achievements, (g) taken, (h) published, (i) international, (j) benefited.
Most of the people who (a) --- most often and most gloriously in the pages of history are (b) ---, generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really help (c) --- forward are often not (d) --- at all. We do not know who first set a (e) --- leg or launched a sea-worthy boat or (f) --- the length of a year, but we know all about the (g) --- and destroyers. People think a great deal of them so much that in all the highest pillars in great cities of the world we (h) --- the figures of conquerors, generals or soldiers. And I think that most people (i) --- that the greatest countries are those that defeated the (j) --- number of countries in battle fields and ruled over them as conquerors.
Ans: (a) appear, (b) conquerors, (c) civilization, (d) mentioned, (e) broken, (f) calculated, (g) killers, (h) find, (i) believe, (j) greatest.
মো. মনসুর আলম, সহযোগী অধ্যাপক ও চেয়ারম্যান, ইংরেজি বিভাগ
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