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Integrated Grammar

Cloze (Gap Filling)

In a cloze exercise, you fill the gaps in a text with suitable words in a way that makes the text
both grammatically perfect and meaningful.

Method

1. Read the text carefully and grasp the general idea before supplying words to fill in the
blanks.
2. Both grammar and meaning of the sentence will guide you in deciding which word fits
each blank.
3. The words are usually articles, other determiners, prepositions, helping verbs, modals, main
verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, conjunctions, relative pronouns and relative adverbs.
4. Maintain consistency in tense.
5. Ensure subject-verb agreement, and match pronouns with correct antecedents.

Solved Exercises 4 marks each

Complete the following passages by filling in the blanks with suitable words. Write your
answers in the space provided.

1. India is rich in diverse forms of wildlife. It A. one C. in E. be G. over
is A ............ of the twelve mega diversity B. with D. rarest F. its H. of
regions in the world B ............ regard 2. Lothal was one of the southernmost cities
to animals. The range and biodiversity of A ............ Indus Valley Civilisation.
of wildlife found C ............ India is It is located near Ahmedabad B ............
unparalleled as some of the D ............ of Gujarat. Excavation on the site by the
rare species are found here. Ideally, 33% Archaeological Survey of India started on
of a country’s land should E ............ 13 February 1955. The findings C ............
covered with forests. But India has only a mound, a township, a marketplace and
about 24% of F ............ land under forest the dock. Lothal D ............ a thriving
cover. However, there are 103 national trade centre in ancient times, E ............
parks and 544 wildlife sanctuaries spread its trade of beads, gems and valuable
all G ............ the country, extending ornaments reaching the far corners of
from Dachigam in Jammu and Kashmir West Asia and Africa. The tools F ............
to Eravikulam in Kerala, Gir in Gujarat techniques they pioneered for bead-making
to Kaziranga in Assam. Indian wildlife and in metallurgy G ............ stood the
consists H ............ a variety of animals test of time for over 4000 years. Some of
such as the lion, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, the prominent collections of Indus-era
etc. and birds like the peacock, parrot, antiquities in India H ............ displayed in
woodpecker, etc. Lothal Museum.

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