Saturday, 14 March 2015

CLOZE TESTS: PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Here you have four cloze tests on Personal and Social Relationships, Theories of Love.
These are multiple choice tests, choose the correct answer for each gap. The key is below the tests.
Have a nice weekend!


Liking vs. Loving
While most of us regard liking as a less intense form of loving, Zick Rubin maintains that the two concepts are qualitatively different.
According to Rubin romantic love is made up (1) …………….............. three elements: attachment, caring, and intimacy. Attachment means not just the (2) …………….............. -pervasive desire to be with another person but also a strong need to be cared for and approved of by them. Intimacy is characterized by the willingness to (3) …………….............. the other person know your thoughts, desires, and feelings . Caring involves (4) …………….............. the same importance to another person’s needs and happiness as to your own.
Liking on the other hand refers to the (5) …………….............. to which one person admires, respects and trusts another one.  While Rubin believes that liking is a pre-requisite for loving for most people, he recognizes that this is not always the case. This may (6) …………….............. for the existence of love-hate relationships!

1       A by                             B of                   C with               D from
2       A in                              B through           C everything      D all
3       A get                            B make              C let                 D allow
4       A detaching                  B providing         C attaching        D adjoining
5       A amount                      B extent             C grade            D length
6       A account                     B explain            C stand            D contribute

Compassionate vs. Passionate Love
Elaine Hatfield divides love into two basic categories: compassionate love and passionate love. Passionate love refers to a mixture of intense emotions, sexual attraction, anxiety, and affection and, (7) …………….............. a few exceptions, tends to be transitory rather than (8)  ……………, Hatfield claims it usually lasts between 6 and 30 months. After this period, passionate love generally (9) …………….............. way to its longer-lasting counterpart, compassionate love. Compassionate love usually (10) …………….............. from mutual understanding and shared respect and leads to attachment, affection and trust.
7       A however   B notwithstanding    C over               D regardless
8       A during      B endurable             C endured          D enduring
9       A makes     B has                      C leads             D gives
10      A stems      B steams                C crops            D harvests

The Colour Wheel Model of Love
John Lee uses the colour wheel as a (11) …………….............. of understanding the concept of love. (12) …………….............. as there are three primary colours, Lee claims that there are three primary styles of love-Eros-love for an ideal person Ludos-love as a game and Storge-love as a friendship. These basic categories can be combined, just like colours, to create secondary or complementary types. For example, if Eros and Ludos are present and Storge is (13) …………….............. this will produce Mania, or obsessive love.

11      A mean       B road           C means        D middle
12      A same       B just             C exactly       D while
13      A lacked     B missed        C lacking       D away

Sternberg’s Theory

Sternberg proposes a theory of love in which the three main components-intimacy, passion and commitment -can be combined to create 8 further subtypes. One common subtype is companionate love which (14) …………….............. from a combination of intimacy and commitment. Many long-term relationships (15) …………….............. this category as passion has inevitably been eroded by time. Fatuous love on the other hand is based exclusively on commitment and passion. If intimacy does not develop over time, relationships which start off as fatuous love are (16)  ……………..............to failure.

14      A arises      B rises           C raises         D produces
15      A fall          B come          C fit               D correspond
16      A sent         B fallen          C primed        D doomed


ANSWER KEY
1 B
2 D
3 C
4 C
5 B
6 A
7 B
8 D
9 D
10 A
11 C
12 B
13 C
14 A
15 C
16 D


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