Multiple Choice Cloze Worksheet 1
For each question, choose which of the four possible answers fits the space best. Also think about why the other three answers are not possible.
1. Lance is ___________ knowledgeable on this subject.
a) smartly
b) powerfully
c) firmly
d) highly
2. I need a good explanation of all the costs ___________ in buying a new car.
a) affected
b) involved
c) concerned
d) implied
3. There was a ___________ debate about the Middle East, then they moved to a vote.
a) lively
b) flexible
c) main
d) nimble
4. The doctor told him to lose weight quickly or pay the ___________ later in life.
a) fee
b) fine
c) price
d) cost
5. Jet lag causes problems with our ___________ clock.
a) biological
b) botanical
c) natural
d) rhythmical
6. This species of seagull is not a ___________ of the island, but will sometimes rest here a while.
a) neighbour
b) national
c) citizen
d) resident
7. Doesn't it ___________ you as strange that it's the middle of May and it's snowing?
a) hit
b) occur
c) strike
d) touch
8. I didn't stay behind because I wanted to, I did so because it was my ___________.
a) work
b) duty
c) shift
d) chore
Tilting Tower Of Pisa
A
One of the world's most famous buildings, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, has recently reopened after ten years of closure, and later in the year, tourists will once again be allowed to climb the ancient monument. The free-standing bell tower of Pisa cathedral started leaning to the south as soon as building started. As it was completed in stages over nearly 200 years, the builders compensated for the tilt by bending the tower as it went up. The problem was that the soft sand and clay under its foundations were compressed by the tower's weight. Over the centuries it leaned more and more, and in 1990 it had to be closed to tourists. Professor John Burland of Imperial College, London, who supervised the stabilisation work, says it was near to collapse: "We can't say when it would have gone, because that would have been a random event like an earthquake or a storm, but we knew we hadn't got long; we knew we had to do something very quickly."
B
Previous efforts to slow the progress of the tilt had failed to help; in fact some had even accelerated it. The committee appointed by the city of Pisa to plan a rescue considered several options, including pumping water out of the sand, and weighing down the ground on the northern side, opposite the lean. But tests on a concrete model of the Leaning Tower suggested that the best method would be to dig out small amounts of earth from boreholes drilled at an angle under the northern side. Instruments measured the results to the millimetre, as Professor Burland guided the operation by fax from his London office: "We had 41 drill holes going in under the tower over its full width. On any one day we would perhaps operate from four of them at the most, and each day we extracted a maximum of 100 litres, which is really just a few bucketfuls."
C
Professor Burland and the team were well aware that, while allowing the tower to collapse would have been a disaster, straightening it too far would have done Pisa's tourist industry no good either; few visitors would come to see a Vertical Tower of Pisa. But he's satisfied that the drilling has gone just far enough: "We've reduced the lean by about 10%; the tower was leaning about four-and-a-half metres near the top. It's now leaning just a little bit over four metres, which is enough to stabilise the tower, but not enough for a tourist to look at it and say, "Ah! They've reduced the lean". It's not visible." The Leaning Tower is now stable; even if it were to return to its former rate of tilt, it should survive another 300 years before more action is needed and from November onwards, tourists will once again be allowed to look down from its overhanging eighth storey.
Source: bbc.co.uk
The reading passage has three paragraphs. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-C from the list of headings. Write the correct number.
- Paragraph A _______
- Paragraph B _______
- Paragraph C _______
1. Random Tests
2. Tilt Compensation
3. Repeating History
4. Lean Reduction
5. Model Method
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?
Choose either True, False or Not Stated if there is no information on this in the reading passage.
- The tower's closure has been expensive for the city of Pisa.
- By 1990, the tower could have collapsed at any time.
- Some of the previous attempts at slowing the lean rate had had the opposite effect.
- The tower leans towards the north.
- Professor Burland's job was at risk if they had straightened the tower too much.
Cheating and Plagiarism
Students are responsible for familiarising themselves with the University Code of Student Conduct, as on enrollment with the University the student has placed themselves under the policies and regulations of the University and all of its duly constituted bodies. Disciplinary authority is exercised through the Student Conduct Committee. The Committee has procedures in place for hearing allegations of misconduct. Copies of the student conduct code are available at the Student Services Office.
Academic dishonesty is never condoned by the University. This includes cheating and plagiarism, which violate the Student Conduct Code and could result in expulsion or failing the course.
Cheating includes but is not limited to obtaining or giving unauthorized help during an examination, getting unauthorized information about the contents of an examination before it is administered, using unauthorised sources of information during an examination, altering or falsifying the record of any grades, altering or supplying answers after an examination has been handed in, falsifying any official University record, and misrepresenting the facts to get exemptions from or extensions to course requirements.
Plagiarism includes but is not limited to submitting any paper or other document, to satisfy an academic requirement, which has been copied either in whole or in part from someone else’s work without identifying that person; failing to identify as a quotation a documented idea that has not been thoroughly assimilated into the student's language and style, or paraphrasing a passage so closely that the reader could be misled as to the source; submitting the same written or oral material in different courses without obtaining authorisation from the lecturers involved; or 'dry-labbing', which includes obtaining and using experimental data from fellow students without the express consent of the lecturer, utilizing experimental data and laboratory write-ups from other parts of the course or from previous terms during which the course was conducted, and fabricating data to fit the expected results.
