cloze test section 5 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

The social ____(1)____ of the Web lifestyle and work style are enormous. A lot of people ____(2)____ that computers and the Internet will depersonalize experience, creating a world that is less warm. But these are unfounded as we know that some people were ____(3)____ afraid that the telephone would reduce face-to-face contact and will ____(4)____ society to fall apart. But the ____(5)____ actually came true. Just as phone and e-mail have increased contact between people living in different communities and between people on the go, the PC and the Internet give us ____(6)____ way to communicate. They do not take any away. In reality, the ability to use the Internet to redefine ____(7)____ in our communities is strengthening personal and cultural ____(8)____. The Web lifestyle is about broadening ____(9)____, not narrowing them. Community building is going to be one of the biggest growth areas on the Web. It dramatically increases the number of communities you can bond to because of its ability to ____(10)____ groups of like-minded people independent of geography or time zones.