cloze test section 2 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Direction:

The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.

PASSAGE

Trust is the basis of human relationship. As trust between people grows, ____(1)____ change and interpersonal dynamics are transformed. Diverse skills and abilities become ____(2)____ and appreciated as strengths. People begin to ____(3)____ one another's attitudes and feelings. They learn to be ____(4)____ instead of playing roles. As trust grows the ____(5)____ that prevent ____(6)____ and openness lessen. People become more expressive, impulsive, frank and ____(7)____. Their communication is efficient and clear. They risk ____(8)____ and confrontation, opening the doors to deeper communication, involvement and commitment. Congestion and ____(9)____ lessen. The flow of data is open and ____(10)____.

PASSAGE

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very ____(1)____ of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long ____(2)____ of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not ____(3)____ by some demon whom one can neither ____(4)____ nor understand. For all one knows that demon. is simply the same ____(5)____ that makes a baby ____(6)____ for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to ____(7)____ one's own personality. Good prose is like a window pane. I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed. And ____(8)____ through my work, I see that it is ____(9)____ where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was ____(10)____ into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.