English » Cloze Test

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

An old man lived in the village. He was one of the (1) ______ unfortunate people in the world. The whole village was tired (2) ______ him; he was always gloomy, he (3) ______ complained and was always in a bad mood. The (4) ______ he lived, the more vile he was becoming and the more (5) ______ were his words.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

A

mostly

B

commonly

C

cyclically

D

constantly

Solution

mostly- in almost every case

commonly- normally, usually

cyclically- in the way repeated many times

constantly- always, again and again

according to the context option D constantly is correct here