Which activity involves removing words from a passage and requiring students to fill in the blanks?

• A. Cloaking
• B. Deletion
• C. Extraction
• D. Cloze

Answer: (D)

A cloze task tests your ability to use context clues to fill in missing words in a passage. In this format, certain words are removed, and you supply the missing ones, using the surrounding text to guide your choices. This kind of exercise specifically targets reading comprehension, vocabulary knowledge, and your ability to predict meaning from context and maintain grammatical flow. Other terms describe different ideas—extraction is about pulling out specific information from the text, deletion just means removing words without focusing on completing the passage, and cloaking isn’t a standard term for this activity. So the activity described is a cloze exercise.