Gap Filling- 4 ESL Worksheet

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ESL Worksheet: Gap Filling- 4

Instructions: These questions practise the type of item tested in many intermediate exam gapfills and cloze tests.

Q1 - The report has come in for a lot of ____ in the press.
 
critics
 
critcise
 
criticism
Q2 - He was a ____ of mine at Cambridge.
 
contporary
 
contemporaneous
Q3 - The judge said that she was in ____ of court.
 
contempt
 
contemptuous
Q4 - In the ____ you could see the city lights.
 
distant
 
distance
Q5 - I find yoga very ____ for controlling tension.
 
benefit
 
benefits
 
beneficial
Q6 - The cause of ____ remains a mystery.
 
die
 
died
 
dead
 
death
Q7 - The painting was not genuine so it was ____.
 
worthwhile
 
worthy
 
worth
 
worthless
Q8 - The ____ news is that his condition is stable.
 
late
 
later
 
latest
 
lately
Q9 - He lacks ____.
 
ambitious
 
ambition
Q10 - She's very ____ of her success.
 
pride
 
proud
Q11 - I spent much of my ____ living abroad.
 
childish
 
childlike
 
childhood
Q12 - The ____ was never established.
 
true
 
truly
 
truth
Q13 - I can't resist chocolate; it's a ____ of mine.
 
weak
 
weakly
 
weakness
Q14 - In all ____, she won't be able to come.
 
likely
 
likelihood
Q15 - Fog reduced ____ to zero.
 
visible
 
visibility
 
visibly
Q16 - It was a ____ success.
 
remark
 
remarkably
 
remarkable
Q17 - He ____ to sack them if they didn't improve.
 
threat
 
threatened
 
threaten
Q18 - The tiger is in danger of ____.
 
extinct
 
extinction
Q19 - Her ____ was proved in court.
 
innocence
 
innocent
Q20 - Their cottage in a lovely, ____ village.
 
peace
 
peaceful

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