KET Cambridge / key eglish test / Reading and Writing / Part 5 / Multiple Choice cloze
Read the article about Sofia Nielsen.
Choose the best word for each space.
Message in the Bottle
More than 110 years ago a young woman named Sofia Nielsen was walking ... [in/on/*at] the seaside of the North Sea. [When/While/*During] ... the trip she got a crazy idea. She wrote a message, put it in a green bottle and threw the bottle into the North Sea. What she didn't know is that the bottle would survive ... [*so/too/enough] long. Last week, a Danish fisherman found Nielsen's bottle when he was on his every day fishing trip. He carried it to a museum.
The historians there discovered that it's the ... [older/old/*oldest] message in the bottle in the world! They also found Nielsen's grandson, Malthe, ... [which/*who/what] is now 72 years old. He lives in Copenhagen and never ... [meets/*met/meeting] his grandmother who died in 1940. What did the bottle contain? Well, there was a letter inside. Nielsen asked the finder to return ... [*it/its/them] to his home address in Copenhagen. They couldn't read the rest of the message. [*Some/A/Any] ... water got inside and damaged the ink. But it didn't stop the specialists. They're trying to figure out the entire message and hope it'll be possible to read it soon.
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ANSWERS
1. AT THE SEASIDE
2. DURING => used with noun
3. SO => very; extremely
4. OLDEST => THE + OLDEST = superlative
5. WHO => used to show which person or people you mean
6. MET => past simple
7. IT => used to refer to an animal or a thing that has already been mentioned
8. SOME => used to refer to certain types of a thing, but not all of them.