Haji Muhammad Mohsin Government High School (Since 1874)
S r e e r u m p u r , R a j p a r a , R a j s h a h i 6 0 0 0
Class 9-10
June 08, 2020Class/ Activity - 46
Cloze Test - 10
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. Use the correct form of the words if needed.
glare crash enjoy glisten flash
glow shimmer mutter shine sparkle
It was a clear, winter morning yesterday and the sun was ______ (a) in the sky. It was ______ (b) so hard that I felt I had to wear my sunglasses. From the hill I could see the sea ______ (c) below and the snow ______ (d) up on the
mountain. I walked on the grass which was ______ (e) in the early morning dew and I thought how different things had been the day before. We had had nasty weather; it had been a gloomy, rainy day. Early in the morning lightning had been ______ (f) in the sky from to me to time. I could
hear thunder ______ (g) in the distance and then ______ (h) just before the storm broke. It was a day that you would prefer to stay at home by the fireplace looking at the burning logs ______ (i) rather than go out in the rain.
______ (j) poetry with tea or coffee must be a dreaming for many ones!
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. Use the correct form of the words if needed.
revolt cheap publish write word
expense use page invent move
In A.D. 868 the Chinese were printing books using carved wooden blocks. Until the 15th century all information had to be labouriously ______ (a), mostly by monks and only a few people had access to education. As a result, books were very rare and ______ (b) and most of them were written and copied by the hand. The introduction of printing caused a ______ (c) in 1454 when Johannes Gutenberg of Germany developed much ______ (d) type in which each separate letter was printed on a hand press. The process remained in ______
(e) for 350 years and the first book printed was the Bible. The ______
(f) of power-driven presses allowed books enough to be printed
more easily and printing made it possible to produce more than one book at a time. So, books became ______
(g) and knowledge was spread more widely. First, the author writes the book and the ______ (h) undertakes the publication of the book. The designer draws rough plans for each ______ (i), the drawings are sent to the artist and the words are sent to be typeset. The typeset ______ (j) are stuck down around the pictures and the complete pages are sent to the printer.
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