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The following cloze passage is constructed according to the above advice. e.g. Choose the best word to fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage below. Write your answers in the space provided in the right hand margin. Write only ONE word for each blank The earth’s vegetation is _(1)_ of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relation between plants and the earth, between plants and _(2)_ plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no _(3)_ but to disturb _(4)_ relationships, but we should _(5)_ so thoughtfully, with full awareness that _(6)_ we do may _(7)_ consequences remote in time and place. 1._______ 2._______ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______ 6._______ 7._______ part other choice these do what have The deletions in the above passage were chosen to provide ‘interesting’ items. Most of them we might be inclined to regard as testing ‘grammar’, but to respond to them successfully more than grammatical ability is needed; processing of various features of context is usually necessary. Another feature is that native speakers of the same general academic ability as the students for whom the test was intended could be expected to provide acceptable responses to all of the items. The acceptable responses are themselves limited in number. Scores on cloze passages of this kind in the Cambridge Proficiency Examination have correlated very highly with performance on the test as a whole. It is this kind of cloze that experts would recommend for measuring overall ability. It may reasonably be thought that cloze procedures, since they produce purely pencil and paper tests, cannot tell us anything about the oral component of overall proficiency. However, some research has explored the possibility of using cloze passages based on tape-recordings of oral interaction to predict oral ability. Family reunion Mother: I love that dress, Mum. Grandmother: Oh, it’s M and S. Mother: Is it? Grandmother: Yes,