Cloze Exercise (3)

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Please complete the following cloze exercise: 

(word list: 56 words)

Hawaii

     Hawaii, the youngest state of the United States, is different ______ many ways form the mainland states. Its geography and people ______ unique. Hawaii is a ______ of a great chain ______ volcanic islands which stretch ______ the Pacific Ocean. Just ______ are the Hawaiian people? ______ are a mixture of ______ original Hawaiians who probably ______ from Samoa long, long ______, and many immigrants ______ arrived later. When the ______ pineapple plantations were being ______ in Hawaii in the 1900's, ______ were not enough people ______ on the islands to ______ all the work. So more came: the Chinese, Japanese, ______ the Portuguese were the ______ groups. Some returned home ______ working for a few ______; many stayed and added ______ the mixture of cultures ______ languages.

     For many years, ______ customs were looked down ______ or ignored. Now there ______ new pride in the ______ ways. Children are learning ______ Hawaiian language and the ______ songs and dances. At ______ University of Hawaii there ______ a great deal of ______ in the history of ______ islands and the culture ______ the past.

     Visitors to ______ islands want to see ______ island paradise as it ______ to be. A popular ______ to visit is the Polynesian Cultural Center. ______ numbers of tourists from ______ Mainland and the Orient ______ in Hawaii daily. Signs ______ modern tourism are everywhere. Honolulu ______ its suburbs, a quiet ______ of about 250,000 about thirty ______ ago, is now a ______ area of 800,000 residents ______ tourists.

     As you drive ______ the island of Oahu, ______ can still find deserted ______ of beach with the ______ waves. But now some ______ these beaches are closed ______ the public, and more ______ more tourist resorts are ______ built in areas that ______ unspoiled. Hawaiians worry about what will happen to the old way of life.

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