Cloze - Ignorance In America
CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD FOR EACH SPACE
surprisingly sought political while has their thinking coming ; been was
It ___________taken years of indifference and stupidity to make Americans as ignorant as they Read moreare today. Anyone who has ____________ to teach the latest generations can tell you how much less students coming out of high school know every year. ___________ this was shocking at first, it no longer surprises college lecturers that the nice and eager young people enrolled in __________classes have no ability to understand most of the material being taught. Teaching American literature, as I have ________doing, has become much harder in recent years, since the students read little literature before ___________ to college and often lack the most basic historical information about the period in which the novel or the poem _________written, including what important ideas and issues occupied ________ people at the time. Not _____________, this ignorance has a profound effect on people'sinvolvement in the democratic process and their preception of the current ___________scene.
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It __________ taken years of indifference to make Americans as ignorant as they are today.
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this is a present perfectof the verb - have + past participle of the verb 'take'Rate this question:
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Anyone who has ______________ to teach the latest generations can tell you how much less students coming out of high school know each year
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Present perfect of the verb 'seek'Rate this question:
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_______________ this was shocking at first, it no longer surprises lecturers that ..
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while is a linker of contrast in this case (synonym = whereas)Rate this question:
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.no longer surprises lecturers that the nice and eager young people enrolled in ______________ classes have no ability to understand any of the material being taught.
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their - personal adjective referring to 'lecturers'Rate this question:
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Teaching American literature, as I have______________ doing, has become much harder in recent years...
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present perfect progressive : have/has + been + ---ingRate this question:
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... since the students read little literature before ____________ to college...
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the words before/after and without are followed by the ---ing form of the verbRate this question:
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...and often lack the most basic historical information about the historical period in which the novel or poem ________ written
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the book was written ... past simple PASSIVERate this question:
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..including what important ideas or issues occupied __________ people at the time.
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thinking people ... people who think!Rate this question:
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Not ______________, this ignorance has a profound effect on people's involvement in the democratic process...
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remember the common adverb ending -lyRate this question:
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..and their perception of the current _____________ scene.
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-al the common adjectival suffix e.g. international, natural, superficial etc.Rate this question:
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