Open cloze test (Intermediate level) with key (23 pages) Mã A559082

Contents (Click in PDF, Ctrl + Click in Word to go to pages; click on above the answer box to go from from Cloze to Key. Press ? to go from Key back to Cloze)

Cloze: Hazardous History..............................................................................3

Cloze: The Truth about the Titanic ‐ Part 1 ..................................................4

Cloze: The Truth about the Titanic ‐ Part 2 ..................................................5

Cloze: Let it be..............................................................................................6

Cloze: Woody Allen ......................................................................................7

Cloze: The Euro.............................................................................................8

CLoze: Do we really need to sleep?..............................................................9

Cloze: Flat‐sharing......................................................................................10

Cloze: Do you speak German?....................................................................11

Cloze: Doormen in New York .....................................................................12

Key to Hazardous History...........................................................................13

Key to The Truth about the Titanic ‐ Part 1................................................14

Key to The Truth about the Titanic ‐ Part 2................................................15

Key to Let it be ...........................................................................................16

Key to Woody Allen....................................................................................17

Key to The Euro ..........................................................................................18

Key to Do we really need to sleep?............................................................19

Key to Flat‐sharing......................................................................................20

Key to Do you speak German? ...................................................................21

Key to Doormen in New York.....................................................................22

Cloze: Hazardous History Fill in the gaps with a word from the box. The first one has been done as an example. There are 4 words that you don't need (distracters). 20 x 0.5 = 10 marks Three centuries (0)________, people had much shorter lives. In 1700, insurance companies put the (1)________ life expectancy of a new‐born baby at only fourteen years! The average life expectancy in the world (2)________ is sixty‐six years, and in some (3)________ it is much higher: in Japan or France, for (4)________, the average is more than eighty. This is mainly because of better diet, better hygiene and better healthcare. Even in the olden days though, it is (5)________ that if people survived to be an adult they often (6)________ to be sixty or seventy. Having children was much more dangerous in (7)______ days: one in every nine women died in childbirth. Even so, women (8)______ to have many more children than they do today: in 1800 the average (9)______ family had seven children ‐ today the average is (10)______ than two. Perhaps the reason for this was that so many babies died: even a hundred years ago, 20% of children died (11)_______ they were five. One reason that there were so many diseases was that people (12)________ much less about hygiene: even rich people didn't use to wash much ‐ many people thought that it was (13)________ to take a bath, so they often bathed only once or twice (14)________ year. Instead they used perfume to cover (15)________ odours. Poor people didn't even have toilets or clean water and most had lice in (16)________ hair, bodies, clothes and beds. There was no toothpaste in those days (17)_______ and only rich people used toothbrushes. Of course, toothache was very (18)________, but there were no professional dentists until …