KET Cambridge / key eglish test / Reading and Writing / Part 5 / Multiple Choice cloze

Read the article about Irish holidays.
Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each space.

 

 

Have a great holiday!

Millions of Irish people travel to foreign countries on holiday each year. Many people go on package holidays with travel companies ... [if/although/*because]  they can arrange everything for you. The company books your train, plane or bus tickets and finds you a hotel or a flat. [On/*In/At] ... summer, many people go to places ... [what/which/*where]  the weather is warmer ... [*than/then/as]  in Ireland. They go to the beach and swim or sunbathe.

Skiing holidays are ... [very/enough/too] popular in winter. Many people travel to countries ... [such/like/so]  as Austria , France, Switzerland, Sweden and Canada to go skiing and snowboarding. Many people also go on more adventurous holidays, like wildlife safaris in Africa. There are a ... [many/much/*lot]  of TV programmes about holidays in Ireland. Irish people also  ...  [having/has/*have]  holidays in Ireland. They go to the seaside to swim and sunbathe, or go hiking in the country.

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ANSWERS

1.    BECAUSE => for the reason that.

2.    IN => is used with 'months, seasons, years, centuries and long periods'.

3.    WHERE => the place or situation in which.

4.    THAN => used to introduce the second part of a comparison.

5.    VERY => used before adjectives, adverbs to mean 'extremely'.

6.    SUCH AS => used to introduce one or more examples.

7.    A LOT OF => a large number or amount.

8.    HAVE => We use 'have' with the present simple.