PART II CLOZE
Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
Early Tudor England was to a large extent self-sufficient. Practically all the necessities of life food, clothing, fuel and housingwere produced from native resources by native effort, and it was to (26)_____ these primary needs that the great mass of the population labored (27)______ its daily tasks. Production was for the most part organized in innumerable small units. In the country the farm, the hamlet and the village lived on (28)____ they could grow or make for themselves, and(29) _____ the sale of any surplus in the local market town,(30) ____ in the towns craftsmen applied themselves to their one-man business, making the boots and shoes, the caps and the cloaks, the (31)____ and harness of townsmen and countrymen(32)____. Once a week town and country would meet to make(33) ___ at a market which came(34) ___ realizing the medieval idea of direct contact between producer and(35) _____. This was the traditional economy, which was hardly altered for some centuries, and which set the(36) _____ of work and the standard of life of perhaps nice out of(37) ____ ten English men and women. The work was long and (38)____, and the standard of life achieved was almost (39)___ low. Most Englishmen lied by a diet which was often (40)____ and always monotonous, wore coarse and ill-fitting clothes which harbored dirt undermine, and lived in holes whose squalor would affront the modern slum dweller.
26. A) settle B) answer C) satisfy D) fill
27. A) at B) in C) on D) with
28. A) which B) what C) whether D) where
29. A) with B) by C) on D) for
30. A) although B) while C) nevertheless D) when
31. A) machines B) apparatus C) equipment D) implement
32. A) similar B) skin C) like D) alike
33. A) exchange B) bargain C) dealing D) ride
34. A) close at B) adjacent to C) near to D) near-by
35. A) consumer B) buyer C) user D) shopper
36. A) model B) form C) pattern D) method
37. A) every B) each C) the D) other
38. A) cruel B) hard C) ruthless D) severe
39. A) unimaginatively B) unimaginably C) imaginarily D) unimaginedly
40. A) weak B) little C) meagre D) sparse
Call their bluff?
Sweet spot?
From the get go?
Butter them up?
In a funk?
Sitting on their hands?
Linear thinking
Take a backseat to nothing
Jesus bird?
Window dressing
Make the cut?
Don’t go over the top
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Chosen one
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That's the deal
Got your goat?
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Wearing thin
Raised eyebrows?
Another false start?
The wheat from the chaff
Less than meets the eye
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No axe to grind?
Rainy day?
Find your feet?
More than a minor worry
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