Cloze based on a piece of news from 28.02.2011
A new (1) ____ shows that staying in education for a long time helps blood pressure. Scientists have found a link between the number of years spent studying and (2) ____ blood pressure. The research looked at data from 4,000 people in the USA. They found that (3) ____ who had a university education had lower blood pressure (4) ____ people who did not enter higher education. Study leader Eric Loucks said people who left school (5) ____ were more likely to have a stressful job and low income. He said both these things contributed (6) ____ stress.
Many people think it is more stressful to stay (7) ____ in education. University exams are famous for causing students lots of stress. It also (8) ____ strange that people with university degrees have lower blood pressure than those without. Graduates usually become managers in companies, or teachers and those (9) ____ are very stressful. The report looked (10) ____ blood pressure levels at the end of a 30-year period. It (11) ____ be that people who were in education longer were richer and had a better standard of living. Money worries often (12) ____ lots of stress.
Put the correct words from this table into the article.
| 1. | (a) | studying | (b) | studied | (c) | study |
| 2. | (a) | low | (b) | below | (c) | lows |
| 3. | (a) | them | (b) | those | (c) | they |
| 4. | (a) | than | (b) | from | (c) | by |
| 5. | (a) | fast | (b) | quick | (c) | early |
| 6. | (a) | at | (b) | to | (c) | on |
| 7. | (a) | on | (b) | at | (c) | with |
| 8. | (a) | seem | (b) | seen | (c) | seems |
| 9. | (a) | position | (b) | positions | (c) | post |
| 10. | (a) | at | (b) | on | (c) | in |
| 11. | (a) | will | (b) | going to | (c) | could |
| 12 | (a) | because | (b) | cause | (c) | course |
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