Cloze Reading Practice

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A school is a place ………………… many students of different ……………….. and attitudes converge.

The first thing they learned in …………………. school is that there are so ………………… kinds of

people. They experience the pains and pleasures of getting to know their …………………….. They

………………. their own strengths and weaknesses. They learn the meaning of

……………………………, teamwork, friendship, selflessness, etc. Some ……………………. are

uplifting while some are depressing.

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Time once gone can never be ……………. Opportunities and chances do ………………. at your

door, but it is up to you to make …………. of them. So, you should remain alert and

…………………. if the tide turns in favour, you must swim to the shore. If you are looking the

other way, the tide will ………………….., and you will be standing on this side of the river.
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Soft loan ……………… have made it easy to buy things. This has led to more and more ………… on

city roads. This car-culture has …………… many problems. Cars release toxic, …………….. and

killing gases. A traffic jam can ……………….. one to death. Secondly, cars have also increased

noise pollution. We have to shout to be audible. Thirdly, the increase in vehicles’ numbers has

created …………………. problems. We are to create …………. towards these man-made problems.

One family one car should be the norm.

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Twenty years ago, kids in school had never heard of the Internet. Now, I will bet you can’t find a

……………….. person in your school who hasn’t at least heard of it. In fact, many of us use it on a

…………………. basis and even have access to it from our homes! The internet is a vast

…………………. to all types of information. You can enjoy using it to ………………….. for a school

project, downloading your favourite songs or …………………….. with friends. But since anyone can

put anything on the Internet. You also have to be …………………… and use your best judgment and

a little common sense.

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There are ……………... physical effects of stress. Stress can affect the heart. It can ……………. the

pulse rate, make the heart miss beats, and can cause high blood pressure. Stress can affect the

……….. system. It can lead to asthma. It can cause a person to ………………… too fast, resulting

in a loss of important carbon dioxide. Stress can affect the stomach. It can cause ……………..

aches and problems digesting food. These are only a few ………………… of the wide range of

illnesses and symptoms resulting from stress.

Long-term stress can lead to a variety of serious mental illnesses. Depression, a/an ……………….

feeling of sadness and hopelessness, can be the result of continued and increasing stress.

Alcoholism and other ………………. often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drugs to try

to relieve stress. Eating disorders, such as anorexia, are sometimes ………….. by stress and are

often made worse by stress. If stress is allowed to continue, then one's ……………….. health is

put at risk.
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……….. are second only to fire as the most common of all …………. disasters. They occur almost

……………… in the world, resulting in widespread damage and even death. ……………………….,

scientists have long tried to perfect their ability to predict floods. So far, the best that scientists

can do is to …………… the potential for flooding in ………………….. conditions. There is a

number of conditions, from deep snow on the ground to human error, that cause ……………...

Although scientists cannot always predict ………. when floods will occur, they do know a great

deal about when floods are likely, or probably, going to occur. Deep snow, ice-covered rivers,

and weak …………………. are all strong conditions for ……………… flooding. Hopefully, this

knowledge of why floods happen can help us ………………… the damage they cause.

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Long before the ………………. of Europeans on the Canadian prairie (the wide grasslands of what

is now …………….. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba), the people lived in a ………………….

relationship with their natural surroundings. Every item of their ………………, from sewing

needles to homes was …………. from nature. Their homes were called teepees and were like

……………. tents made from the skins of deer. These people - tribes with names like the

Blackfoot, the Peigan and the Blood people - were ………………, which means that they travelled

from place to place following the ……………… they hunted or the growth of the berries and fruits

on the bushes and trees.