Vocabulary Cloze Exercises for Grade Seven Students

Cloze Exercises 1 Cloze Exercises 2 Cloze Exercises 3 Cloze Exercises 4 Cloze Exercises 5 Cloze Exercises 6

These cloze exercises can give valuable practice to grade seven students in choosing the right word to fill in the blanks.

Cloze Exercises 3

Cloze Exercises 3a

Japanese food has gained popularity around the (1) ……………… In every big (2) …………. , you can find at least one good Japanese restaurant serving (3) ……………… Japanese dishes. To the Japanese, food must not only be carefully (4) ………………skillfully cooked, but also be (5) ………………. arranged and served.

To many foreigners, Japanese food (6) ……………… suki yaki. This dish has beef as its main (7) ……………. The beef is thinly (8) ……………… and cooked quickly with vegetables in soya sauce (9) ………………………with vinegar and sugar. Another popular dish is tempura which has prawns (10) ………………. its chief ingredient. The prawn is cooked together with various (11) ………………… of vegetables all cut into bite-sized cubes. It is dipped in a light batter and (1) ……….. deep fried right on the (13) ……………. Table.

One dish that is a great (14) …………...among the Japanese people is, however, not so (15) …………… among the foreigners. It is called sashimi. It (16) ………. of chunks of raw fish served with seaweed and pickles.

A Japanese meal is always served with green tea for (17) ………….drink and a pungent green condiment (18) ………. Wasabi to spice up the food. Sometimes, ginger pickle is (19) ……………… served. All food is served (20) ………… uniquely shaped containers.

Cloze Exercises 3b

Mrs. Lance was doing her laundry and keeping an (1) ……………… on the fish that she was frying for dinner. Sarah, her daughter, was in (2) ……. garden. It was almost time for dinner. Mrs. Lance was satisfied as the aroma of the special dish drifted (3) ………… over the house. She smiled when saw (4) …………. Sarah was playing with their dog Timber.

Mrs. Lance was (5) …………… to finish her cooking when Timber came rushing in. He began tugging (6) …… Mrs. Lance’s t-shirt. Timber had never looked (7) ……. frantic before.

Rushing out, Mrs. Lance saw Sarah holding a monkey’s hand and walking (8) …….. it into the forest nearby. “Sarah! Stop! Where (8) ………. you going?” She yelled at the top of her lungs.

Sarah turned around and smiled at her mother. “It is alright. It is just taking me (9) …….. see where it lives.”

Mrs. Lance panicked. She rushed (10) ………… her daughter and caught her in her arms. There was a white spot at (11)…………… end of the monkey’s tail. It fitted the description of the monkey that she had (12)…………….. on the news a few days ago. Mrs. Lance became more afraid. It was one (13) ………….. those monkeys that had escaped from a research laboratory. It was carrying a contagious disease.

Mrs. Lance shouted, “Sarah, that is a dangerous (14)………….. Leave it there and come home now.”

Sarah pretended (15) …………. to hear her mother and kept walking towards the forest with (16) ……….. monkey. Suddenly, Timber dashed towards Sarah. In the blink of (17) ………… eye, he caught up with her, and barked at (18) ………. monkey. The monkey got scared. He left Sarah and ran (19)…………. the forest.

That (20) ……. the end of Sarah’s encounter with the dangerous monkey.

Cloze Exercises 3c

Many people, especially (1) ………… who live on the islands, are able to swim. Most fishermen, though not expert swimmers, can stay afloat for a long (2) …………. or dive to about ten metres and stay in such depths for several minutes (3) ……….. longer. They dive to the seabed to retrieve their fish traps or to release their entangled nets (4) …………. the rocks. Sometimes they emerge with their noses and ears bleeding. This (5)…………….. occurs as they have to hold their breath under great water pressure.

Thus, man’s ability to stay (6)………….. the water surface is limited as he cannot swim like a fish. Yet, there is an increasing number of people (7) ……………. take up sea-diving as a sport. Such divers can stay in great depths for (8)………….. than an hour with the help of the aqualung, a breathing unit with was invented (9) ………………. seventy years ago by a French man named Cousteau.

This equipment is a cylindrical tank (10)………………. compressed oxygen. It is fastened to the back of (11) ……………. diver. A tube connects it to a mouth piece so (12)………………. the diver can breathe in air through his mouth at a controlled pressure.

With this additional ‘lung’, a face mask and a pair of rubber flippers, man (13) ……….. now swim like a fish in great depths as long as the oxygen in the tank (14 )………….. Besides, as he can breathe below the water surface, the diver no (15) ……………. suffers from bleeding through his nose and ears.

Another group of (16) ………………who have greatly benefitted from the equipment is scientists who study underwater phenomena. They can now go (17) ……………. even to the seabed and study the animals and plants (18) ……………. Treasure (19)……………. looking for underwater ship wrecks also use the aqualung (20) …………their advantage.

Cloze Exercises 3d

You do something about twenty times a minute without even thinking (1) …………. it – you breathe! In fact, every day you take about 20,000 breaths. The organs of your body that (2) …………. you to breathe are called your lungs. You have two of (3) ………….. that work together, located in your chest behind the rib cage.

The main (4) ………… of your lungs is to breathe in good air and breathe out bad air. The good air (5) ………….. oxygen which your body needs. The bad air is a gas called carbon dioxide, (6) …….. your body cannot use. The intake of oxygen and the discharge of carbon dioxide is what happens in breathing. Without the breathing and the supplying of oxygen to the body, the brain can shut down after just four minutes. Between four and six minutes after breathing stops, death can occur.

When you breathe in through your nose or mouth, air travels (7) ……………… the back of your throat. It passes through your voice box and (8) …………. your trachea or windpipe. Your trachea is divided into two air passage tubes. One leads to your left lung and the (9) ………….. leads to your right lung. Inside your lungs, oxygen is removed from the air you (10) …………..in and is pumped into the blood cells. Your lungs also get rid of carbon dioxide. This process takes (11) …………. inside hundreds of tiny air sacs.

Each adult lung is about the size (12) …………. a football. When they are healthy, your lungs feel like a sponge and are pinkish grey. When the lungs are damaged (13) ……………smoking, they can appear grey or have black spots on them.

Diseases of the lungs are very common in many parts of the world. Smoking, infections and genetic causes can trigger lung problems. Pollution caused by factories and vehicles is another common cause. Lung infection or pneumonia is caused by viruses or bacteria, and affects a lot of people around the world. One disease that is very (14) …………. in children involves the lungs. It is asthma. Asthma narrows the breathing tubes, (15) ………….. it harder to breathe. As many as nine million kids in the United States have asthma. Adults also (16) ………….. have asthma. There are inhalers available now that help with asthma. People who have this disease have to carry (17) ………………. inhalers with them wherever they go; you never know what can trigger an asthma attack or when it will occur. People who have asthma have airways (18) …………. are inflamed and narrow, so it is difficult for them to breathe air in and out.

You probably already know that your lungs are important (19) ………….. you swim, but you many not know this – you lungs are the only (20) ……….. of your body that can float on water! Amazing, isn’t it?

Answer Scheme

Cloze Exercises 3a

• World/globe
• City
• Many
• And
• Beautifully/aesthetically
• Equals/means
• Ingredient
• Sliced/cut
• Garnished/ sprinkled
• As
• Types
• Then
• Dining
• Favorite
• Popular
• Consists
• A
• Named/called
• Also
• In

Cloze Exercises 3b

• Eye
• The
• All
• That
• About
• At
• So
• With
• Are
• Towards
• The
• Seen/heard
• Of
• Monkey / animal
• Not
• The
• An
• The
• Into
• was

Cloze Exercises 3c

• Those
• Time/while
• Or
• From/off
• Bleeding
• Under
• Who
• More
• About/around
• Containing
• The
• That
• Can
• Lasts
• Longer
• People
• Down
• There
• Hunters
• To

Cloze Exercises 3d

• About/of
• Allow/let
• Them
• Purpose
• Contains/provides
• Which
• Down
• Then
• Other
• Breathe
• Place
• Of
• By
• Dangerous/harmful/insidious
• Making
• Can
• The
• That
• When
• Part

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