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Cloze Test

Sentence Skills upper_intermediate hard

Filling multiple blanks in a short passage.

Sentence Skills — Detection, correction, rearrangement and translation.

Rules

1. Read the passage fully once to grasp the meaning. 2. Work on the easiest blanks first. 3. Use grammar clues (articles, prepositions, tense). 4. Use context from surrounding sentences. 5. Re-read the completed passage to check flow.

Explanation

Cloze tests combine reading comprehension with grammar. The passage context usually decides between two grammatically possible options.

हिंदी में

Cloze test में पैसेज में कई blanks भरने होते हैं। पहले पूरा पैसेज पढ़ें, फिर आसान blanks से शुरू करें।

Examples

Passage: "Ravi ____ (wake) up early. He ____ (take) a bath and ____ (go) to school." — रवि जल्दी उठता है। वह स्नान करता है और स्कूल जाता है।

Practice Questions

Q1. Choose the correct word for each blank: Please speak ___(1)___, because I cannot hear you ___(2)___.

["loud","loudly","loudness","louder"]
["clear","clearly","clearness","clearer"]

Answer: ["loudly","clearly"]

💡 Adverbs (-ly) modify the verbs "speak" and "hear".

Q2. Choose the correct word for each blank: India is ___(1)___ large country. It ___(2)___ a rich history.

["a","an","the","—"]
["have","has","had","having"]

Answer: ["a","has"]

💡 A consonant sound takes "a"; a singular third-person subject takes "has".

Q3. Choose the correct word for each blank: He ___(1)___ the work before his father ___(2)___ home.

["finishes","finished","had finished","finishing"]
["comes","came","come","coming"]

Answer: ["had finished","came"]

💡 The earlier of two past actions takes the past perfect.

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Related Topics in Sentence Skills

Topic	Level	What it covers
Word Rearrangement	elementary	Arrange jumbled words into a correct sentence.
Error Detection	upper_intermediate	Finding the part of a sentence that contains a grammar error.
Sentence Correction	upper_intermediate	Rewriting an incorrect sentence correctly.
Sentence Improvement	upper_intermediate	Choosing the best way to say something.
Sentence Rearrangement	upper_intermediate	Putting jumbled sentences or words in the correct order.
Fill in the Blanks	intermediate	Choosing the correct word for a gap in a sentence.

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