USE OF ENGLISH PART 2 OPEN CLOZE/1

Read through the text carefully. Focus on the word(s) before and after a blank space. What part of speech is the missing word (eg. a noun, a verb, an auxiliary verb, an adjective, a preposition, an article, etc.)? If you are going to use a verb, focus on the verb(s) before and after a blank space. What tense/verb form do you need to use (eg. present simple, past simple, present perfect, past perfect, passive, modal verb, etc.)? If you are going to use a noun, is it singular or plural? Is the missing word part of a collocation (eg. take advantage of)? Only use one word in each blank space (eg. visit a museum, not go to a museum). Dont use contractions. Check meaning: does the phrase/sentence make sense? Check spelling (eg. tragedies, not tragedys). Read the whole text when you have filled in all the gaps and make sure it makes sense. Use the TIPS to help you. Change font colour to show tips. Study new grammar and learn some new vocabulary. 1.1 Put ONE word only in each space. A vicar is going to start a new (0)__life__ after finding a wife on the Internet. The Rev Arthur Wilson, 54, vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Shaw, Oldham, took (1)_____________ surfing the Internet after his first wife died. He was feeling lonely, so he looked (2)_____________ friendship through the Internet Relay Fifties Chat Channel and his message (3)_____________ answered by Jenny Rusdell, a former head teacher at a girls high school. Mr Wilson said that he had been feeling very depressed since the (4)_____________ of his wife, and had been trying to bring (5)_____________ his 12-year-old son, Peter, by (6)_____________. I have always been interested (7)_____________ computers. I got a degree in engineering before I (8)_____________ the church. When I got access to the Internet, I didnt expect I (9)_____________ going to find friends in cyberspace. That was not my motivation at all. Jenny and I (10)_____________ met on the Internet about a year ago, and we met (11)_____________ person for the first time in February. Since then they have been (12)_____________ in touch in a more traditional way by phone. I hate to think what my telephone bill is now, he said. TIPS 0. noun 1. prep. (phrasal verb with take = start an activity) 2. prep. (phrasal verb with look = try to find) 3. aux. (active or passive? Singular or plural?)

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noun NB die = verb; dead = adj. prep. (phrasal verb with bring = raise) by + _________ = on his own, alone which prep. after interested? at, in, for or on? transitive verb (= become a member of sth). Focus on the verb (got) and its tense (past simple) before the gap. aux. (present or past continuous?) aux. (have or had? Present perfect or past perfect?) prep. (for, at, in, or of?) collocation: prep. + person verb (which verb collocates with in touch, make, keep or take? Present perfect simple or continuous?)

1.2 Put ONE word only in each space. NB There are 15 questions in this exercise, but only 12 in the exam open cloze task. Many actors do not like working (0)__with__ children or animals. This is probably (1)_____________ they are afraid that the audience may become (2)_____________ interested in the children and animals than in them. Actors can have problems (3)_____________ a different kind when they (4)_____________ required to eat or drink on stage. If they have too (5)_____________ food in their mouths, the words they say may not be clear, and they may even end (6)_____________ coughing and choking. Other problems can occur with food when films are (7)_____________ made. In a recent film, during (8)_____________ a family was waiting to have a meal, one of the (9)_____________ entered with a large roast chicken on a tray and then began to cut some meat from (10)_____________ while he was speaking. By mistake, he cut off a whole leg of the chicken and then completely forgot (11)_____________ his next words were. It was necessary to film the scene (12)____________ . However, there was (13)_____________ other roast chicken in the studio, so nobody (14)____________ what to do. Eventually the problem was solved (15)_____________ putting a nail in the leg and attaching it back onto the chicken. TIPS 0. preposition 1. use a linking word expressing cause (which is the best here, because, as or since?) 2. focus on than at the end of the sentence 3. prep. (focus on a different kind) 4. active or passive? are or have? 5. use a quantifier - focus on food (uncountable) 6. end is a verb here end + prep. + -ing form (phrasal verb expressing result) 7. present continuous passive been or being? (= when they are making films) 8. use a relative pronoun (refer back to film). 9. plural noun (people, actors or characters?) 10. pron. (refer back to meat) 11. about or what? Focus on were at the end of the sentence.

12. use one word to say another time 13. read the whole sentence. Use a quantifier (some, any or no?) 14. verb (present simple or past simple?) 15. prep. + -ing form (this preposition expresses method by or with?)