May 25, 2021

 7B

- every weekend, please take a selfie or photo of yourself working out. People who do this every week will get at least 80% in PhE

- tomorrow, May 26, you will be given a cloze passage to complete online. Your passage will not be the same as your friend. This will determine how well you read, and will be reported.

- the cloze test will be conducted every week

 

 

Practice. Do passage 10 by yourself and work with someoneon 11 (harder)

 

Cloze Passage-10              Fill in the appropriate word for each space given.

            Birds have always fascinated humans.  Bird watching first became a p_ _ _ _ _ _  hobby in the l_ _ _  nineteenth century.  People began to e_ _ _ _  listening to the sounds of birds and watching rare and unusual b_ _ _ _.

            If you go bird watching, it is a g_ _ _  idea to have a p_ _ _  of binoculars with you.  You can also take down n_ _ _ _  about the birds you see.

            Bird books are u_ _ _ _ _  because they will help you to i_ _ _ _ _ _ _  birds you don’t k_ _ _  when you see them.  You can also try to get r_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  of birdsongs, which e_ _ _ _ _  you to appreciate the birds even m_ _ _.

            Some bird watchers take along a c_ _ _ _ _  to take photographs and others take along v_ _ _ _  recorders to film the birds in a_ _ _ _ _.

            Unfortunately, some p_ _ _ _ _  still kill birds for s_ _ _ _.  Bird lovers constantly  p_ _ _ _ _ _ when they see or hear of birds being k_ _ _ _ _  in this manner.  They feel that it is inhumane to simply kill birds for the sake of sport.

 

Cloze Passage-11  Fill in the appropriate word for each space given.

            The Japanese took only ten weeks to conquer Malaysia and Singapore during World War II.  Do you know why the Japanese had such an e_ _ _  victory?

            The British were t_ _ _ _ _ _  unprepared for the w_ _.  They had insufficient troops stationed in the a_ _ _.  The Japanese knew that they had more t_ _ _ _ _  in Singapore as compared to Malaysia, so they a_ _ _ _ _ _ _  from the north instead.

            Their first t_ _ _ _ _  was Kota Bharu.  When the British s_ _ _  two warships to the north, the J_ _ _ _ _ _ _  sank them and further w_ _ _ _ _ _ _  the British.

            The Japanese army was superior to the British a_ _ _.  Japanese soldiers were well-trained and experienced.  The British s_ _ _ _ _ _ _, on the other had, had no fighting e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.  The British army was also m_ _ _  smaller than the Japanese army.  The w_ _ _ _ _ _   that the Japanese used were modern c_ _ _ _ _ _ _  to the older ones of the B_ _ _ _ _ _.

            The British were more concerned about defending other bigger countries a_ _ _ _ _ _  the Japanese.  They were n_ _ _ _  going to allow Britain to fall into the hands of the Japanese.

            Thus, on February 15, 1942, the British s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  Malaysia and Singapore to the Japanese.