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GUIDED CLOZE PRACTICE 05

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GUIDED CLOZE PRACTICE 05 Read the passages below and decide which answer best fits each space. Passage A:

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has achieved (1) _______ success as a computer programmer, inventor and entrepreneur. His path to that point, however, was anything but typical. While attending Harvard University in the 1970s, he made a (2) _______ move and left university before graduating to start his own company. His parents didn’t like the idea at first, but Gates (3) _______ down and worked hard to get their support. He founded Microsoft in 1975, which after a few short years caused a(n) (4) _______ in personal computing. During the time that Gates was at the head of the company, some of his employees regarded him as (5) _______ and arrogant. He would sometimes (6) _______ in on presentations, expressing his dislikes for certain ideas and proposals. He was often described as being (7) _______: he did whatever he liked and was often hard to reach either in or out of the office. But whatever anyone may have thought of these minor shortcomings, Gates was a (8) _______ competitor in the computer software industry who often (9) _______ the competition. In his years as CEO of the company, he laboured hard at (10) _______ Microsoft’s range of software products, and whenever he (11) _______ success in a particular area of computing, Gates guarded the position with all his might. Since then, he has won international (12) _______ as one of the greatest computer software inventors of all time. 1. A. grueling B. cunning C. crushing D. staggering 2. A. gutsy B. virtuous C. candid D. noble 3. A. broke B. knuckled C. fell D. got 4. A. evolution B. discrimination C. generation D. revolution 5. A. impartial B. modest C. mediocre D. conceited 6. A. cut B. break C. put D. come 7. A. considerate B. candid C. noble D. impetuous 8. A. ruthless B. reckless C. worthless D. selfless 9. A. executed B. crushed C. snatched D. pocketed 10. A. growing B. broadening C. lengthening D. elongating 11. A. achieved B. defeated C. accomplished D. resolved 12. A. acceptance B. approval C. acclaim D. applause Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Passage B:

Despite the bad publicity surrounding ‘Mad Cow Disease’ in the 1990s, the hamburger remains an icon for the twentieth century. In its (1) _______, preparation, purchase and very place of consumption, it tells in (2) _______ the history of the century. In each decade its character and its image subtly reflected the shifting fashions and preoccupations of the era.

Its origins are (3) _______ in an uncertainty that only assists its status as a characterless object to which each generation may add whatever (4) _______ it chooses. Its connections with the German city of Hamburg are unclear. Although every (5) _______ civilization has had some form of ground meat patty, most food historians do accept a link with the eponymous Baltic port.

Thus the hamburger enters history as the plain but honest food of poor but ambitious immigrants to the United States. Indeed, according to one food expert, it had its origins in the fare of a German- owned shipping line on (6) _______ vessels in the 1880s Hamburg beef was minced and then mixed with breadcrumbs, eggs and onions and served with bread.

But it was at the World Fair in St Louis in 1904 that it first became a symbol of mass-produced cuisine. It was there that the bun was first introduced and the result was (7) ________ popular. Soon after, in 1921, the first hamburger chain was established. But generally the burger remained a wholesome home-made dish. Older Americans still (8) _______ childhood memories of Mom grinding good fresh