Passage Completion : Cloze Test
Passage :
The Earth is one of the known planets that
circle the sun. In -----6----- times, the men who studied the -----
7----- noticed that while certain heavenly -----8----- seemed fixed in the sky, others seemed to -----9----- about. The latter they named planets or wanderers -----10----- astronomers have discovered that the four planets, Jupiter, Saturn. Uranus -----11----- Neptune, are surrounded by poisonous gases and are so ----12------ that any living thing attempting to ----13------ on them would instantly be frozen to death. Of the five remaining -----14----- Venus most closely ----15------ the Earth in size.
| 6. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. past
- B. modern
- C. antique
- D. ancient
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| 7. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. stars
- B. earth
- C. sun
- D. light
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| 8. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. bodies
- B. objects
- C. things
- D. entities
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| 9. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. jump
- B. run
- C. move
- D. roam
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| 10. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. upstart
- B. future
- C. modern
- D. new
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