TT2 Open Cloze Preparation 3 Pi and Atlantis

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Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a novel that you should never read late in the evening if you intend to get ______ sleep at night!

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It is definitely a page-turner; I personally found it absolutely impossible to put down before I had read it cover _____ cover.

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The book tells the unusual story of a sixteen-year-old boy, Pi. While Pi ______ making the voyage from India to Canada on a boat full of zoo animals, his boat sinks.

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Being the _______ human survivor, he finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a menagerie of creatures, including

a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a 200 kg Bengal Tiger.

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Although the book is written in a fairly simple style, ______ examines some very complex themes.

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In fact , the novel reads like a fable or a fairy tale as it discusses the question _____ faith and belief.

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If you read only _________ good book this year, I would strongly recommend Martel's Life of Pi.

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The writer has come up ______ a story that is enlightening, humorous and therefore highly entertaining.

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The 'Lost City of Atlantis' was first described ______ Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, over 2,000 years ago.

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His story paints a picture of an ancient civilisation whose hunger for power over others led to ______ final downfall.