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.
11. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. or
- B. and
- C. nor
- D. etc
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12. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. cold
- B. lukewarm
- C. dull
- D. frigid
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13. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. squat
- B. land
- C. walk
- D. stay
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14. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. constellations
- B. stars
- C. planets
- D. meteors
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15. |
Choose the best word in the given passage. |
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- A. imitates
- B. negates
- C. resembles
- D. identifies
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