What is Gap-Filling?
A gap-fill is a practice exercise in which learners have to replace words missing from a text. These words are chosen and removed in order to practice a specific language point. Gap-fill exercises contrast with cloze texts, where words are removed at regular intervals, e.g. every five words.
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:26th January is a very special day (i) ______ India. It is (ii) ______ this day that India became a Sovereign Democratic Republic (iii) ______ 1950. Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President (iv) ______ the Indian Republic. 26th January is celebrated (v) ______ great enthusiasm and festivity all over the country. First of all, the Prime Minister visits the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate. There he offers floral tributes (vi) ______ the martyrs. Then begins the colourful parade (vii) ______ starts from Vijay Chowk (viii) ______ terminates at the Red Fort.
Find the appropriate word for blank (ii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:There (i) ______ a survey (ii) ______ the popular forms of music and how the taste (iii) ______ music differs (iv) ______ age. About one hundred persons (v) ______ in three age groups (vi) ______ interviewed on their musical preferences. The survey found that (vii) first great musical age is adolescence. (viii) ______ comes the early adult–hood.
Find the appropriate word for blank (i)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Always read the metre dials (i) ______ the right to the left. This procedure is much easier, especially (ii) ______any of (iii) ______ dial hands are near the zero mark, when (iv) ______, mark (v) ______the number of units recorded. Dials (vi) ______ water (vii) ______ gas meters usually (viii) ______ the amount each dial records.
Find the appropriate word for blank (vi)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:David dreams (i) ______ inventing a fridge that can take good care of (ii) ______ He says his fridge (iii) ______ have a touch screen and a hatch. The screen will display (iv) ______ icons. All he will have to do (v) ______ to press an icon for ‘clean’ on it and the fridge will self–clean. Another icon will tell him (vi) ______ food items that will run out in a day or two. Then he can buy them just a day ahead. A third icon will indicate (vii) ______ foodstuff has gone stale. He will then need to press a red button and it will come (viii) ______ of the fridge.
Find the appropriate word for blank (v)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Buddhists (i) ______ survived in India only (ii) ______ a comparatively small sect, (iii) ______ Buddism in (iv) ______ east today has (v) ______ hundred and fifty million adherents. It is (vi) ______ chief religion of Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Buddhists (vii) ______ the four truths. They live a (viii) and austere life.
Find the appropriate word for blank (vii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Rivers are considered holy (i) ______ India but they are hardly treated (ii) ______ respect. All kinds of dust and filth find (iii) ______ way into the rivers. If we have to treat and purify the water (iv) ______ drinking it, how can the fish survive in waters? Every year river Gomti becomes (vi) ______ death bed of thousands of fish because (vii) ______ water released in the reservoir upstream carries effluents (viii) ______ the neighbouring industries.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Rekha exercises (i) _______ (all/each/any/once) day of the week. She (ii) _______ (do/does/doing/done) aerobics/yoga and (iii) _______ (lifts/lifting/lift/lifted) weights. She no longer (iv) _______ (eats/eat/eating/ate) greasy and junk food. As a result, Rekha’s health (v) (was/will be/are/is) improving. She does not (vi) _______ (got/getting/gets/get) tired and always looks very fit and active. Sometimes, however, she yearns for pizzas and burgers.
Find the appropriate word for blank (ii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Most of us fail in our efforts (i) ______ self improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time (ii) ______ carry them out. We also make the fundamental error (iii) ______ announcing our resolution to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slipback (iv) ______ our bad old ways. Aware of these pitfalls, this year I attempted (v) ______ keep my resolution to myself. I limited myself to two modest ambitions, to do physical exercise every morning and to read more (vi) ______ the evening. An overnight party on New year’s eve provided me with a good excuse (vii) ______ not carrying out either of these new resolutions (viii) ______ the first day of the year, but on the second, I applied myself assiduously to the task.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iv)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:The ragpickers of India (i) ______ a pitiable sight. It is poverty that (ii) ______ them to resort to rag picking. Day in and day out they may be (iii) ______ on the roads, the lanes and the by lanes of a city or town looking for cast–off clothes or something else showy or shoddy that (iv) ______ sell. More often than not, it is children who (v) ______ to rag picking. But some young men and women are also (vi) ______ to take up the trade to make both ends meet. Why should innocent children (vii) ______ should be at school at this age do this filthy job? It is because their parents are too poor to support them. So, they neglect them and abandon them (viii) ______ face the cruel world on their own.
Find the appropriate word for blank (viii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Reading a novel or short story (i) ______ second language could dramatically (ii) ______ physiological responses to emotions such (iii) ______ smiling. It enables us to (iv) ______ various mental abilities at all ages.
Find the appropriate word for blank (i)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:There is a general belief (i) ______ students that (ii) ______ who write long sentences get (iii) ______ marks. Short answers get (iv) ______ marks.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Most of us fail in our efforts (i) ______ self improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time (ii) ______ carry them out. We also make the fundamental error (iii) ______ announcing our resolution to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slipback (iv) ______ our bad old ways. Aware of these pitfalls, this year I attempted (v) ______ keep my resolution to myself. I limited myself to two modest ambitions, to do physical exercise every morning and to read more (vi) ______ the evening. An overnight party on New year’s eve provided me with a good excuse (vii) ______ not carrying out either of these new resolutions (viii) ______ the first day of the year, but on the second, I applied myself assiduously to the task.
Find the appropriate word for blank (v)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Authorities settled (i) ______ 32 pages in (ii) ______ next answer book for the undergraduate courses. The answer book was ready (iv) ______ be circulated.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iv)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:They ordered the poor man about, (i) ______ him on errands, made him wash (ii) ______ cow and lectured to him (iii) ______ how to grow a garden.
Find the appropriate word for blank (i)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:The naughty children walked (i) ______ flower beds, climbed the fruit trees (ii) ______ plucked unripe fruits and they (iii) ______ pits on the garden path.
Find the appropriate word for blank (ii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Medicinally, the bark of (i) ______ Kadam tree is used as an antiseptic and (ii) ______ fevers. The juice of this tree (iii) ______ used to kill germs in the sores.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:He screamed so loudly that the pigeons pecking (i) ______ the scattered grains in (ii) ______ courtyard (iii) ______ off in a flurry.
Find the appropriate word for blank (ii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:Dr. Diesel was (a) ______ gifted engineer. He (b) ______ highly practical and persevering in giving shape (c) ______ his ideas.
Find the appropriate word for blank (i)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:The mere mention of the Nobel Prize (i) ______ visions (ii) ______ world famous scientists and economists. It is (iii) ______ most coveted individual award in the world.
Find the appropriate word for blank (iii)
Question for Introduction & Practice Questions: Gap Filling
Try yourself:The use (a) ______ computers has (b) ______ so widespread that almost no field has been (c) ______ untouched.
Find the appropriate word for blank (ii)
