Reading focus unit 2 - gapped text | ready for first

Reading - ESL

Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A–G the one which fits each gap (1–6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

 

How to go about it

✅ Check that the whole sentence fits in with the meaning of the text before and after the gap.

To help you do this, some words and phrases are written in bold. These show connections between the language in the text and the language in the missing sentences. A number of grammatical words such as them, this and these are written in italics to show further connections.

Note: these connections are not shown in the First examination.

✅ Now look at gap number 1. The words in bold before and after the gap indicate that the missing sentence:
  a refers back to the words uncomplicated and get points
  b refers forward to the different ways of getting points.

When you think you have found the sentence, read the whole paragraph again to check that it fits.

✅ Now complete each of the remaining gaps with an appropriate sentence. Do not choose a sentence simply because it contains a word which also appears in the base text.
For example, the word obstacles, before gap number 2, is repeated in sentence G, but this does not necessarily mean that G is the correct answer.

✅ When you have finished, check that the sentence which you have not used does not fit into any of the gaps.

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