Vocabulary Building Cloze Exercises for Middle School Students
These cloze exercises that require suitable words to be used to fill in blanks are valuable in the vocabulary building of middle school students.
Cloze Exercises 6
Cloze Exercises 6a
A flash flood (1) ………. in the middle of the night at a small town last week. Both the tourists and residents were (2) ……… by surprise. Many of them (3) ……….. sleeping when the flood came. It had been raining continuously for a few days (4) ……….. to the event. Rainwater had collected in a rocky area just at the outskirts of the town, (5) ……….. a small pool there. The dirty, muddy water that rushed into the town covered the roads and the water even (6) …………. a person’s knees. Bicycles (7) ………… be seen floating about in the water.
The flooding did not (8) …………. for long, and no one was injured. However, there was debris everywhere after the water (9) ………….. The whole town was in a mess. The people had learnt their lesson. They (10) ………… to build a proper drainage system so that such floods would not happen again.
Answer Scheme
- occurred
- taken
- were
- prior
- forming
- reached
- could
- continue
- receded
- decided
Cloze Exercises 6b
The Sumatran Orangutan, also (1) ……….. as ‘The old man in the forest’, is an endangered species. Its population has dropped rapidly by more (2) ………… fifty percent in the last hundred years.
Conservationists are fighting to save their natural habitats (3) …………. have been destroyed by both deliberate and unintentional forest fires. In (4) …………., the forests have also been cleared for agriculture and plantations.
Logging also has consequences (5) ………… the orangutans. After all, they are arboreal creatures that (6) ……….. their lives living on trees. Throughout the day, they swing among the trees and eat fruits as (7) ………….. as leaves found there.
The threats to the orangutan population are very real and dangerous as the orangutans (8) …………… a long time to reproduce. At most, a female orangutan can (9) …………. four surviving young over a lifetime. She carries her baby for more than eight months (10) ………. giving birth. The baby is dependent on its mother for six years. During this (11) …………., it is possible for the mother to have another baby but (12) ………….. does not always happen especially when the orangutan is nearing its thirty-year lifespan.
The World Wildlife Fund is (13) ……………. with the Indonesian government to create wildlife sanctuaries where logging is banned. Stricter laws are being set to (14) …………. those who destroy the habitats of (15) …………….. mammals.
Answer Scheme
- known
- than
- which
- addition
- for
- spend
- well
- take
- produce
- before
- time/period
- this
- working
- punish
- these
Cloze Exercises 6c
When astronauts get out from a vehicle in space, it is (1) ………… a spacewalk. They wear spacesuits to (2) ………. themselves safe. Inside their spacesuits, astronauts carry the oxygen they (3) …………. to breathe and water they need to drink.
Astronauts put on their spacesuits several hours (4) ………….. they go for a spacewalk. The suits are pressurized. This (5) ………….. that the suits are filled with oxygen. Once in their suits, astronauts (6) ………… pure oxygen for a few hours to get rid of all the nitrogen in their body.
If the astronauts did not get (7) ………… of the nitrogen, they might get gas bubbles in their body when they walked in space. These gas bubbles can (8) ………… them to feel pain in their shoulders, elbows, wrists and knees. The pain is called getting ‘the bends’ (9) …………. it affects the places where the body bends.
During a spacewalk, astronauts use safety tethers to (10) ………… close to their spacecraft. Tethers are like ropes. One end is hooked (11) ……… the astronaut. The other (12) …………. is connected to the vehicle. The safety tethers keep astronauts (13) ………. floating away into space. They use tethers also to keep tools from floating away. They tether their tools to their spacesuits.
Before astronauts go on the spacewalks, they need to train (14) ……………. on how to walk in space. Part of the training is by going for a swim. Floating in space is like floating in water. They practice spacewalks underwater in a large swimming (15)…………...
Answer Scheme
- called
- keep
- need
- before
- means
- breathe
- rid
- cause
- because
- stay
- to
- end
- from
- themselves
- pool
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