Circle the best answers.
CANTON, Mass. - Some ______(1) them a safe way to smoke without the harmful carcinogens. But towns and cities across the state are _______ (2) e-cigarettes like tobacco.
Monday, the Town of Canton will _______(3) on whether to ban the sale of e-cigarettes. In Massachusetts, 78 cities and towns make selling e-cigarettes to ______(4) illegal. Some 43 towns have banned their use in the workplace and most public place.
"We believed that it was just another nicotine delivery program that ______(5) circumvent rules about getting cigarettes to kids," said John Ciccotelli, the Canton Public Health Director. We don't ______(6) to then chase them into a nicotine delivery ______(7) of which e-cigarettes is one."
If the regulation goes through, Canton would be the first town in the country to ban e-cigarettes. ______(8) also will vote to raise the age to buy tobacco to 21.
E-cigarette supporters say the product is a much ______(9) alternative to smoking.
1. A. call B. calls C. is called D. was called
2. A.regulate B. regulated C. regulates D. regulating
3. A. vote B. votes C. voted D. are voting
4. A. minors B. majors C. kids D. elders
5. A. will B. would C.should D. may
6. A. wanting B. wanted C. wants D.want
7. A. product B. commodities C. merchandise D.products
8. A. they B. them C. he D. she
9. A. healthy B. healthier C. healthiest D. -
Why it is a bad item?
Firstly, when constructing a Cloze test, the first sentence must be left intact. This is to give the reader general idea on what the passage is about. Then, every Nth word in a sentence will be deleted and in this sample, the writer does not follow the rules of constructing a Cloze test. There are blanks in the 6th word of the sentences and suddenly the first word is deleted in the other sentences. They are not systematic. Two gaps are not allowed in the same sentence. For the answer options, the distractors must be grammatically correct and if the blank is in the first word of the sentence, it should be written in the capital letter. You can see the example in the 8th gap where "they" is written in the small letters although it is the first word in a sentence. For 5th gap, the tendency of all the answers to be correct are high. The 6th gap should be deleted together with the "don't" since they are in one word and related to each other. So, the answer options will be "don't want" instead of "want".
Below are the suggestion answers for each blank.
1. A. call B. calls C. is called D. was called
2. A.regulate B. regulated C. were regulating D. are regulating
3. A. vote B. voted C. will vote D. could vote
4. A. minors B. majors C. kids D. elders
5. A. will B. would C.should D. may
6. A. might not want B. didn't want C. don't want D.wouldn't want
7. A. product B. commodities C. merchandise D.products
8. A. They B. them C. he D. she
9. A. healthy B. healthier C. healthiest D. -
Hopefully this will help you to understand better and giving you knowledge to identify which is a bad item or not. Any comments or questions, just drop them below okay? Thanks! :)
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