[etni] cloze

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This may be totally off the wall, but I always thought that the word cloze was 
invented here in Israel.  We put in the missing elements to create a closed - 
complete - sentence or paragraph.  I figured the "z" was an example of the 
gentle humor we sometimes exercise, that created characters like Gad Alon (G-d 
alone?)  (esh 7) and O.B. Sitty (this years' Bagrut, in an article about what 
teens eat (obesity?).  
 
Anyway that's what I thought.  A few years ago, a Russian teacher approached me 
(I worked in a school where one could do a Bagrut in Russian) and asked me to 
explain what a "cloze" was, since it was new to her.  I really think that 
English exams were the first place a cloze could be found.
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