Cloze Passage (4.1)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Mammals In The Sea
Most _______________ of mammals live on land. But mammal
____________ like whales, dolphins, seals and sea-lions live in the
sea. ____________ they can stay in water for long _____________
of time. Like all other mammals, they breathe air and need to surface
surface from time to time to breathe.
People often ____________ whales for fish because they look
so much like fish. Being mammals, whales have hair, they are warm-
blooded and their __________ drink milk from their mothers' bodies.
If a whale stays __________ too long, it will drown. Although whales
are big, most of them do not eat big things ______________ whales' throats are very narrow.
Dolphins are small whales. They are playful and often _______
out of the water. Seals and sea lions are slightly ___________ from
whales. They are ____________ to come to land and ___________ about on their fin-feet. Cloze Passage (4.2)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word.
Watches From Switzerland
The Swiss are ________________ for making watches. They
_________ about half of the watches in the world. The _________
where watches are manufactured are brightly lit and clean.
The _____________ in the factory wear white coats and work
on long tables. Each worker does a little bit of work on each watch.
This is called an ____________ line. Carefully, ____________ by
piece, they put them __________ to make a watch. Some workers
use ____________ glasses to help them see small objects.
Switzerland does not have iron, coal or oil that are needed for
heavy _______________. But the country does have lots of highly
______________ workers. The Swiss produce valuable items that
_______________ little raw materials but lots of skills. This makes
Switzerland a ____________ country. Cloze Passage (4.3)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Cried "Wolf !"
There was once a ____________ boy who tendered his sheep
everyday. As the sheep grazed the ______________, he sat idly by
staring into the sky most of the time. But he ___________ for some
excitment and one day an idea came into his ____________.
"Wolf! Wolf!" he shouted as loud as he ____________.
On hearing the shepherd boy's cry for ________, the villagers
rushed into the field to save him. But when they __________, they
saw no wolf but the boy roaring with ____________. The villagers
did not think it was funny and all left feeling very upset.
The next week, the shepherd boy __________ the same trick
on the villagers again. This time, the villagers again rushed to help
him only to find they were fooled once more and the boy laughing louder than ____________.
The next day, a wolf really came to _________ the shepherd
boy's sheep. "Wolf! Wolf!" the boy yelled and yelled and yelled.
When the villagers heard the boy yelling, they ___________
him. They thought he must be playing his trick again. Cloze Passage (4.4)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. The Internet
The Internet is a network which links computers _____________
all over the world. It ______________ one computer in one country to
communicate with another computer, possibly in another country.
There are over sixty million Internet _____________ in the world
today. People communicate with one ____________ using electronic
mail or email for short. This _____________ of communication is fast, efficient and cheap.
Many companies and individuals __________ information on the
Internet for everybody to access. The Internet has thus ___________
a valuable source of information where practically anything ________
the sun can be found. Many people __________ or "surf" the Internet
regularly for information. One good example is that you ___________
obtained this worksheet from the Internet.
You can also ____________ the latest news or sports results on
the Internet without __________ to wait for the next day's newspaper reports.
Many companies also use the Internet to ______________ their
customers about themselves and their __________. Very often, they
also provide information on job _________ in their organization. The
Internet is also the best place for anyone to express their creativity. Cloze Passage (4.5)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Animals Survival
Animals communicate _________ their own species for survival.
Most animals use _____________ to communicate. Birds have song-
organs called syrinxes which can _____________ a range of sounds.
Human beings converse by _______________ to one another using words.
When a good source of nectar is ____________, the honeybee
will fly back to its ____________ and perform a waggling dance that
only bees can ____________. The location, distance and quality of
the ____________ is communicated through the waggling dance.
Animals also protect __________ from predators. Some insects
rely on camouflage to ___________ attacks. A spiny stick insect will
stay very ___________ among foliage to resemble a cluster of dead
leaves. Different animals adopt different methods to ____________ their survival. Cloze Passage (4.6)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. EXTRA SENSES
Apart ______________ their usual sense organs, animals often
develop special sense organs. These ___________ give them extra
sensitivity and information about the ___________ around them and
are often needed for survival.
Dogs have the most amazing sense of ____________. Inside a
dog's muzzle, there is a large space that _____________ scents and
passes the sensory information to the ___________. Moisture inside
the nose ______ to dissolve scent particles, this enhances detection
of the smell. Interpreting scents takes up a large ____________ of a dog's brain activities.
Snakes have an organ at the roof of their mouths ___________
the Jacobson's organ. A snake collects chemical particles ________
its tongue and transfers them to sensory _________________ in the
Jacobson's organ for the chemicals to be detected.
Human beings do not develop extra sense organs. Often when
one of the senses is _____________, the other senses can become
more sensitive to overcome deficiencies. Cloze Passage (4.7)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. A Boiler Explosion
Two technicians and a factory supervisor were __________ in
hospital with severe burns after a ___________ boiler exploded in a
chemical plant early yesterday morning. The plant is not _________
yet and the three workers were ____________ trial runs.
A flash fire followed by an explosion _____________ inside the
furnace of the boiler. This ___________ in the collapse of the boiler
structure and high-pressure steam was ________________ into the atmosphere.
The fire brigade arrived ______________ minutes and brought
the fire under control within ___________ hour. The injured workers
are reported to be in critical but stable ___________. Meanwhile the
company is conducting investigations into the _____________ of the
explosion and promised to fully _____________ the injured workers and their families. Cloze Passage (4.8)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word.
Guarding Christmas Trees
Thieves have ____________ a major British supermarket chain
store to call in a squad of army veterans. These ____________, clad
in camouflage outfits and equipped with night ___________ goggles,
are being employed to _________ a plot of woodland with thousands of Christmas trees.
As the festive season ___________ near, the conifer trees have
become more valuable. A truckload of these trees can ____________
tens of thousands of dollars. ________ by theives are well organised
and stolen trees are extremely easy to _________ as there are many
buyers. In previous years, truckloads of trees have ______________ stolen overnight.
The soldiers have already put their army ____________ to good
use by building hideouts of foliage _________ which they can survey
the estate. However, the guards are ___________ strict orders not to
shoot or injured the thieves. This is best left to the police. Cloze Passage (4.9)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Primates
Monkeys, apes and humans are mammals which fall ________
the primate category. Primates are ________ most intelligent group
of animals. To _______ their environment, they have characteristics
like forward ___________ eyes for judging distances and opposing
thumbs for ____________ things.
Gorillas live in ____________ lowland rainforests or high up in
the mountains. Gorillas are heavy in __________. They spend most
of their time on the __________ walking on their feet and fore limbs
knuckles. Although gorillas look big and fearsome, they _________ are vegetarians.
Orang utans, like gorillas and gibbons, are __________. They
are shy solitary primates. They are _______________ mainly in the
rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra in Asia. They ____________ all their lives living on trees. Cloze Passage (4.10)
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Birds
Birds are the largest animals that are ___________ to fly. They
have streamlined __________ and flat feathers to reduce resistance
during flight. Their hollow bones ____________ body weight.
All birds lay eggs. Their eggs are ___________ in a hard shell.
Some birds like the ostriches have wings but __________ fly. They
have other abilities like strong and powerful legs for ____________ away from predators.
Every bird has ___________ own distinctive egg. But all eggs
are pointed at one end and round at the _____________. This is to
_______________ the eggs from rolling in any direction and hence, rolling off the nest.
The hard, pointed mouth of a bird is known as the _________
or beak. The shape and size of the beak __________ on its eating
____________. The eagle with its hooked beak is ideal for tearing flesh. Ex 4.1 Back To Answer Index
1. types/kinds 2. species 3. However 4. period 5. mistook
6. young 7. underwater 8. because 9. leap 10. different
11. able/likely 12. waddle/move Ex 4.2 Back To Answer Index
1. famous 2. produce/manufacture 3. factories 4. workers
5. assembly 6. piece 7. together 8. magnifying
9. industries 10. skilled 11. require 12. prosperous/rich Ex 4.3 Back To Answer Index
1. playful 2. field 3. longed 4. mind 5. could
6. help 7. arrived 8. laughter 9. played 10. before 11. attack 12. ignored Ex 4.4 Back To Answer Index
1. from 2. enables 3. users 4. another 5. form
6. provide 7. become 8. under 9. use 10. have
11. get 12. having 13. inform 14. services 15. vacanies Ex 4.5 Back To Answer Index
1. with 2. sounds 3. produce 4. talking 5. found
6. hive 7. understand 8. nectar 9. themselves 10. escape 11. still 12. ensure Ex 4.6 Back To Answer Index
1. from 2. organs 3. environment 4. smell 5. traps
6. brain 7. helps 8. part 9. called 10. using/with
11. cells 12. impaired/damaged Ex 4.7 Back To Answer Index
1. warded 2. steam 3. operational 4. conducting 5. occurred
6. resulted 7. released 8. within 9. an/one 10. condition 11. cause 12. compensate Ex 4.8 Back To Answer Index
1. forced 2. soldiers 3. vision 4. guard 5. draws
6. fetch 7. Raids 8. sell 9. been 10. training 11. from 12. unders Ex 4.9 Back To Answer Index
1. under/into 2. the 3. suit 4. facing 5. grasping/holding
6. either 7. weight 8. ground 9. actually 10. apes 11. found 12. spend Ex 4.10 Back To Answer Index
1. able 2. bodies 3. reduce 4. covered 5. cannot
6. running 7. its 8. other 9. prevent 10. bill 11. depends 12. habits