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.