Banked_Cloze

Banked Cloze

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.

One day a woman came into the bookstore and asked Ann for books on cancer. The woman seemed (1)_____. Ann showed her practically everything they had and found other books they could (2)_____. The woman left the store less worried, and Ann has always remembered the (3)_____ she felt in having helped her customer.

Years later, as a television reporter in Los Angeles, Ann heard about a child who was born with problems with his fingers and his hand. His family could not (4)_____ a surgical operation, and the boy lived in (5)_____, hiding his hand in his pocket all the time.

Ann persuaded her boss to let her do the story. After the story was (6)_____, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the surgical (7)_____ for free. Ann visited the boy in the (8)_____ room after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say, “Thank you.” What a sweet sense of (9)_____ Ann Curry felt!

At McCarel y’s bookstore, Ann always sensed she was working for the (10)_____, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays her, but she feels as if she works for t he people who watch the programmes, helping them make sense of the world.

Banked Cloze

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.

It was probably around 3,000 years ago that people first began making things to help them measure the passage of time. Having noticed that (1)_____ move around trees as the sun moves across the sky, someone drew a (2)_____ and put a stick in the centre. As the sun passed (3)_____, people could tell which part of the day it was by noticing which (4)_____ on the circle the shadow fell across. These circles were called “sundials”. Later, they were made of (5)_____ and metal to last longer.

Of course, a sundial did not work at night or on (6)_____ days, so men kept inventing other ways to keep (7)_____ of time. After glass blowing was invented, the hourglass came into use.

One of the first clocks with a face and an hour hand was built for a king of France and placed in the tower of his (8)_____. The clock did not show minutes or seconds. Since there were no planes or trains to catch, people were not worried about knowing the exact time. Gradually, clocks began to be (9)_____ and common. Today, scientists have invented clocks that tell the correct time to a split second. Many (10)_____ clocks are often made with built in radios, which can sometimes be set to turn on automatically. Thus, instead of an alarm ringing in your ear, you can

hear soft music playing when it is time to get up. Some clocks will even start the coffee maker!