10-Minute Challenge

The Museum of Lost Things

Cloze Challenge

Something's missing — and it's your job to fill the gaps! Today's Cloze Challenge tests your ability to use context, meaning and your knowledge of English to complete sentences, conversations or short passages. Some answers are obvious. Others might surprise you!
You need:
Your vocabulary & language instincts

Quick Start

1
Read the text & understand the context
2
Fill the gaps with suitable language
3
Reveal the answers & compare

Let's Begin!

Imagine a museum dedicated to things people lose. The exhibits are small, the stories are enormous, and one display case contains a single sock.

Add a, an, the or no article (—) to each gap. You may use the same answer more than once.

A guided tour

Imagine (1) ______ museum dedicated entirely to things people lose.

At (2) ______ entrance, visitors receive (3) ______ tiny paper ticket.

On display is (4) ______ umbrella found on a bus in 1984.

(5) ______ umbrella is labelled “Probably Somebody’s”.

Next to it, there is (6) ______ exhibition of odd socks.

The curator says (7) ______ history is often written by kings, but everyday possessions tell their own stories.

“In this museum,” she says, “(8) ______ ordinary objects have extraordinary stories.”

Extra challenge: Compare I found a key with I found the key. Invent a situation where each is the natural choice.

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