Cloze Test Passage

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Read the passage below and fill in each blank with the most appropriate option

Mwangi is a young farmer who lives in a village near Nyeri. He grows maize, beans ___1___ vegetables on a small piece of land. Every morning he ___2___ his garden to check whether the plants need water. He works ___3___ because he knows that good food comes from hard work.

One rainy season, a strong storm ___4___ down some of his young plants. Mwangi did not give up. Instead, he ___5___ the broken stems and planted new seeds. "A farmer ___6___ always be patient," he told his neighbour. The neighbour, ___7___ name was Wanjiru, admired his courage.

After a few months, Mwangi's farm was ___8___ than before. He sold his harvest at the market and ___9___ enough money to buy more seeds. Today he is one of the ___10___ farmers in the whole village.

  1. Question 1

    1 mark

    ___1___

    A. or

    B. so

    C. and

    D. but

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  2. Question 2

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    ___2___

    A. visit

    B. visiting

    C. visits

    D. visited

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  3. Question 3

    1 mark

    ___3___

    A. hard

    B. harder

    C. hardness

    D. hardly

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  4. Question 4

    1 mark

    ___4___

    A. knocks

    B. knocked

    C. knocking

    D. knock

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    B. knocked

  5. Question 5

    1 mark

    ___5___

    A. removes

    B. removed

    C. removing

    D. remove

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  6. Question 6

    1 mark

    ___6___

    A. might

    B. could

    C. must

    D. may

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  7. Question 7

    1 mark

    ___7___

    A. which

    B. whom

    C. who

    D. whose

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  8. Question 8

    1 mark

    ___8___

    A. greenest

    B. green

    C. more green

    D. greener

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  9. Question 9

    1 mark

    ___9___

    A. making

    B. made

    C. make

    D. makes

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  10. Question 10

    1 mark

    ___10___

    A. successful

    B. most successful

    C. more successful

    D. successfully

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    B. most successful

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