Cloze Test Passage Advanced Level Test – Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers) 1

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

There are some specific characteristics that make "the Wimbledon Tennis Championships" unique. Wimbledon is the only major tennis tournament _____ on grass.

But that's not the only reason _____ it is so special.

Wimbledon is an excellent organization. It may give the impression that nothing has changed over the decades, _____ in reality, everything is continuously improving and modernizing.

Every novelty _____ the desire to present tennis of the highest quality _____ the traditional environment of an English garden.

Every novelty _____ the desire to present tennis of the highest quality _____ the traditional environment of an English garden.

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

The first half of the 20th century was dominated by the two world wars. The wars resulted in unprecedented numbers of casualties. Eight and a half million people are believed ____ fighting in the first world war of 1914-1918.

During the Second World War, as many as 60 million ____ in Asia and the Pacific.

_____ all the total number of casualties, half were civilians.

The scale of killing was largely _____ the destructive power of weaponry.

With the use of the atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War, this reached ____ terrifying a peak that the major powers tried to prevent international wars.

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

Alexander the Great's official historian was a professional flatterer who knew ______ to please his arrogant king.

He called him the new Achilles, from Alexander's favourite ____ in his favourite book, the Iliad.

When, ______, Alexander allowed himself to be worshipped as a god by some of his Asian subjects, Callisthenes thought this went ____ far.

When, ______, Alexander allowed himself to be worshipped as a god by some of his Asian subjects, Callisthenes thought this went ____ far.

This time he quoted the Iliad - against him: A better man than you was Patroclus, but still, death didn't spare him. Getting angry, Alexander had Callisthenes connected to an assassination plot, and though he was _____, he found him guilty.

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

Thomas Pynchon, the American novelist and sometime short-story writer, is as elusive as the characters he _____.

In his books, characters seem to shift their identities at the drop of a hat, _____ a way that readers find either confusing _____ amusing.

In his books, characters seem to shift their identities at the drop of a hat, _____ a way that readers find either confusing _____ amusing.

As for the writer ____, not one photo of him has ever been officially released, and even his publisher does not know _____ he lives.

As for the writer ____, not one photo of him has ever been officially released, and even his publisher does not know _____ he lives.

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

Psychic energy is not new in terms of intuitive human awareness. ______ the earliest history of civilization, philosophers and scientists have ______ its structure and potential according to their cultural conditioning and personal belief systems.

______ the earliest history of civilization, philosophers and scientists have ______ its structure and potential according to their cultural conditioning and personal belief systems.

It's new only _____ the sense ______ scientists have recently established _____  existence and learning how to measure it in the laboratory.

It's new only _____ the sense ______ scientists have recently established _____  existence and learning how to measure it in the laboratory.

It's new only _____ the sense ______ scientists have recently established _____  existence and learning how to measure it in the laboratory.

(Please note: The following questions are part of a cloze test. They are interrelated, meaning that the information provided in each question is connected to the others.)

The planet Jupiter is named after the mythical king of the Roman gods. In many (26) ______, it is the king of the planets.

Jupiter is the largest of the planets circling the Sun, big ______ to contain all the others with room to _____.

Jupiter is the largest of the planets circling the Sun, big ______ to contain all the others with room to _____.

Its immense gravity controls a family of 16 moons, and it is surrounded ______ radiation belts powerful enough to kill a visiting astronaut.

If _____ looks at Jupiter through even the smallest of telescopes, he/she can make out bands of cloud in yellow and white.