Cloze
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Cloze (from closure) is a form of examination technique, commonly but not limited to use on young children to test writing and comprehension skills.
It is an activity where the learner uses clues from the context to "fill-in-the-blanks" in a sentence or text. Cloze activities test reading comprehension and language mastery levels.
It is characterized by a passage of text, whether it be prepared beforehand, or taken verbatim from the text to be examined, and with the removal of certain key words deleted and replaced with blanks. It is up to the student, then, to fill in the words, demonstrating an understanding of the text material.
Example Cloze exercise from Rosie Boycott
Rosel _____ Boycott (born 1951), better known as Rosie Boycott, is a _______ journalist. Boycott was educated at ________ ______ ______ and read ________ at the University of ______. She was the first female editor of two national broadsheets, heading the _______ and its sister publication the _________ _____ _______. While editing the _________ in 1989, she campaigned for the decriminalisation of _________ use by individuals. She was also editor of the _______ _______. She founded _______ ______ in this 1970s, a publisher committed to women's writing.
Boycott had made several appearances on Newsnight Review and also presents the BBC Radio 4 programme ____________. She also sits on judging panels for literary contests, notably chairing the panel judging the 2001 __________.