Cloze Test Exercise Page 10

In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

Click on the options to check whether it is right or wrong.

 

The wings of some birds are so small that they are (1) for flying. Earlier such birds (2) fly. But after living for thousands of (3) in places where they had no (4) there was no need for them to fly, and they (5) on the ground. After a while their (6) ones could no longer rise into the air. The ostrich, rhea, emu and cassowary (7) fly, but they can run fast on their long, strong legs. Ostriches (8) in Africa and are found on the grassy places (9)  they live along with big groups of zebras. The rhea looks like the ostrich, (10) it is smaller and has three toes on each feet, while the ostrich has only two.

 

1. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. useless
  2. useful
  3. beneficial
  4. suited

 

2. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. should
  2. might
  3. could
  4. can

 

3. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. weeks
  2. years
  3. months
  4. ages

 

4. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. wind
  2. sky
  3. friends
  4. enemies

 

5. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. stepped
  2. stayed
  3. crept
  4. crawled

 

6. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. trained
  2. old
  3. young
  4. pregnant

 

7. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. cannot
  2. could
  3. would
  4. should

 

8. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. lived
  2. live
  3. had lived
  4. used to live

 

9. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. when
  2. where
  3. so that
  4. because

 

10. Choose appropriate word from options given below

  1. even though
  2. but
  3. and
  4. in spite of

 

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