Cloze-test - practice exercise

Thessaloniki Story, Part 1

Complete the text below by writing a suitable word from the list in each space. There are 15 gaps but twenty words given. Use each word once only. There is an example (0) for you. In this part of the exam you cannot use your dictionary.

Kostas Kerilidou hobbled stiffly out of the (0) bedroom and gazed (1).........the vista from his balcony. His home was on the third story of a (2)..........new block of flats on the north eastern fringes of Thessaloniki. The view into the (3)............was spectacular: Mount Olympus in all its mythical glory standing snow capped across the placid waters of the Thermaic gulf. The foreground was less (4)............. The development of the estate on (5)............Kostas lived had begun about ten years ago. The streets had been neatly laid (6)........... a few of the low-rise apartment towers typical of modern developments in Greece had slowly made their way to a modest altitude above ground level. But as the decade (7)..............worn on, construction momentum had began to lag and various plots once expected to fill up rapidly with (8).............dwellings were now weedy wastelands.

Kostas (9)............his fingers through his thick black gray flecked (10)............and wandered off the balcony into the kitchen/dining area where his beloved wife Maria was making the coffee. Maria's equally dark, but (11)............ and completely un-flecked hair rested handsomely on the shoulders of her pale blue silk dressing gown (12)............. she measured out the the ground coffee into the filter paper.

"Where's Vasiliki?" her (13)............ inquired.

"Oh, she's still in bed - you know, she was out (14)............. her friends quite late last night."

"Yes, but she's got that (15) ............. exam at the Frontisterio this morning. It's at nine o'clock. She'll be late if she doesn't get up now."

bedroom, comfortable, which, run, hair, with, what, distance, had, over, of, respectively, spouse, longer, inspiring, mock, relatively, ran, out, as, ears


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