Following are the exercises of open cloze passage and gap filling. These grammar exercises for class 9 and 10 are based on English modals exercises, verbs exercises, grammar tense exercises, modal auxiliary, simple past and other tense exercises. These gap fillers for beginners and cloze test will help you in first certificate in English (FCE). The following esl form filling exercises are specially designed for class IX and X. A printable version in PDF form is also available at the bottom of each exercise.
Exercise-111
Fill up the given blanks choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below:
1. Married men have wives and (a)………….. to want them; and young single fellows (b)……………. that they can’t get them. Poor people who (c) …………. keep themselves have eight hearty children. Rich old couples (d)………….. one to leave their money to, die childless. Then there are girls (e) …………. lovers. They say they (f)…………… be without them, that they bother them.
(a) (i) haven’t seem (ii) don’t seem (iii) aren’t seem (iv) can’t seem
(b) (i) cry on (ii) cry down (iii) cry out (iv) cry in
(c) (i) will hardly (ii) have hardly (iii) hardly (iv) can hardly
(d) (i) with (ii) in (iii) on (iv) at
(e) (i) without (ii) lacking (iii) with (iv) across
(f) (i) would rather (ii) can rather (iii) will and people (iv) had rather
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Exercise-112
Choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below to complete the following passage.
There (i) …………. a survey (ii) …………. music and how the taste (iii) …………. age. About one hundred persons (v) the popular forms of music differs (iv) ………… in three age groups (vi)…………… interviewed on their musical preferences.
(i)(a) has been (b) have been (c) had been (d) was
(ii) (a) for (b) about (c) on (d) in
(iii) (a) in (b) on (c) at (d) about
(iv) (a) in (b) on (c) at (d) with
(v) (a) each (b) every (c) all (d) some
(vi) (a) was (b) is (c) were (d) are
Answers:-
(i) c (ii) b
(iii) a (iv) d
(v) a (vi) c
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