USE OF ENGLISH. CLOZE EXERCISE WITH KEY (8 PASSAGES) Mã A656318

USE OF ENGLISH. CLOZE EXERCISE In the following text, fill in the blanks with ONLY ONE WORD

The Nature of the Reading Process

If you stand at a window (1) ........................a busy road and watch a car pass you from

left to right, your eyes will appear to move smoothly (2) ....................... they are focused

(3) ..................... the car. If, (4) ......................, you wait until there is no traffic and try

to follow an imaginary car as it moves from left to right anyone (5) .....................

watches your eyes (6) ....................... you do this will tell you that they move in a series

of small jerks. This is (7) .........................happens when you read. As your eyes move

(8) .................. a line of print, they make a series of small jerky movements, stopping

momentarily on each word or group of words. These pauses - (9) ..................... as

‘fixations’- last for about a third of a second. The slow reader finds that he has to fixate

on every word in (10) ................. to understand what he reads (11) .......................the

efficient reader, on the other hand, has learned to widen his ‘eye span’ and to see

written material more in terms of groups of words (12) .......................as single words.

No mechanical device claiming to help a reader widen his eye span has

(13) ......................... been able to produce evidence that they are any more effective

than (14) ................... trying to read faster. In fact, as you usually (15)

.......................read faster without widening your eye span, then, if your reading speeds

increase as a result of trying to read faster, you have widened your eye span

(16) ....................... necessarily realising it. One follows naturally from the other.

1. overlooking 9. known 2. because, as, since (reason) 10. order 3. on 11. while, whereas (contrast) 4. however 12. than 5. who 13. yet 6. while, as (temporal meaning) 14. simply, only, just 7. what 15. cannot 8. along 16. without

It's never (1) ……………….. to formally disallow an ism. It must also be made "uncool."

(2) ……………..…. our motivation behind the desire to hold others down is

psychological, social, or economic, is beside the point. Typically, a mixture of motives is

at ………….. But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still

collectively (4) ……………. our tongues--as previous generations did about racism--

that (5) ………………. at the root of the problems that vex us today.

I envisage a dignitarian society, one in (6) …………….. every person, regardless of

rank, expects and enjoys equal dignity. The implications of a politics (7) …………. on

the principle of dignity for all are profound. (8) ………………… as our institutions had to

be reshaped as America turned from a segregated into multicultural society, so too (9)

……….……….. we need to transform our schools, businesses, healthcare and religious

institutions as we become a dignitarian society. A dignitarian society is democracy's

(10) …………….. natural evolutionary step.

Senator Obama is at risk of (11) ………..…….. expectations beyond anyone's capacity

to deliver on them. There are no quick fixes (12) ………………. our current problems.

But (13) …………….. the public understand that building a dignitarian society is as

complex and rewarding (14) ……………….. task as overcoming racism, it may grant

our leaders, (15) ………………. they be, the patience and commitment that they are

going to need to do so.

1. enough 9. will 2. whether 10. next 3. stake 11. raising 4. holding 12. to 5. lies 13. should 6. which 14. a 7. predicated/built/based 15. whoever 8. just